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attic

The space, often unfinished and with sloped walls, directly below the roof in the uppermost part of a house or other building, generally used for storage or habitation.

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#1·Apr 26, 2026US

The space, often unfinished and with sloped walls, directly below the roof in the uppermost part of a house or other building, generally used for storage or habitation.

We went up to the attic to look for the boxes containing our childhood keepsakes.
Origin: From the practice of decorating the top storey of building facades in the Attic architectural style. From , from , from. Origin information sourced from Wiktionary contributors (CC BY-SA 4.0).
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  • “... or the bit where the octogenarian makes the first claim on the policy they've paid premiums on for forty-seven years, and Aviva accuse them of criminal fraud because they didn't count a (literal) attic boxroom as a bedroom...”

    — Bluesky· May 2026
  • “When you do everything right, but it still goes wrong. Really good expert analysis of the explosion. I see gable vents, but that may only be for the attic space.”

    — Bluesky· May 2026
  • “I stumbled across Bardcore a couple of years back. It's definitely entertaining. I really enjoy the ones translated into, say, Attic Greek or Classical Latin.”

    — Bluesky· May 2026
  • “lol, another recently shingled roof in the same neighbourhood being redone, they've removed a sheet of roof sheathing and you can see guys occasionally emerging from the attic carrying filled plastic bags. Gotta be the same previous crew, same disposal 'trick'”

    — Bluesky· May 2026
  • “People talked about transformers, so i showed some of mine. You can see three boxes on the shelves and there is like 5 more in the attic. I have a huge collection, and all have a complete bio in a shared universe. I just love writing those bio... I'm quite the transformer nerd.”

    — Bluesky· May 2026
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#2·Apr 26, 2026US

(slang) A person's head or brain.

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  • “40+ year old toys in dust proof bags in the attic.”

    — Bluesky· May 2026
  • “Terracotta fragment of a column-krater (bowl for mixing wine and water) 460–440 BCE Greek, Attic https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/728930”

    — Bluesky· May 2026
  • “When my baby sister was born ‘she’ gave me a plastic Tommy gun as a kind of consolation present. I loved it. When her boys were toddlers, I bought them toy guns to return the favour. She put them straight in the attic. (The guns, not my nephews, obviously.) O tempora, O mores!”

    — Bluesky· May 2026
  • “Terracotta fragment of a kylix: Band or lip cup (drinking cup) Greek, Attic third quarter of the 6th century BCE https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/753194”

    — Bluesky· May 2026
  • “hobi was in the sofa cuz they couldnt show that he crawled into namjoon's attic bed that night 🤓☝🏻”

    — Bluesky· May 2026
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#3·Apr 26, 2026US

(architecture) A storey or a parapet above the cornice of a classical façade, often decorated.

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