(slang) A television broadcast that causes the viewer to stop flipping through channels with their remote control and watch it.
(slang) A television broadcast that causes the viewer to stop flipping through channels with their remote control and watch it.
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Regional slang from around the English-speaking world — British, Australian, Irish, Caribbean, Nigerian, Filipino, AAVE, and the hyphenated-English dialects that make the internet sound local.
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(AU, slang) A topic of conversation which is controversial and of contemporary significance. Hence, a social gaffe.
(colloquial) A problem that totally impedes a project.
(British, informal) that travels across the English Channel.
A streamer's plea (or chatter's call-out) to stop talking about a specific topic — usually because it's spoilery, off-limits per the streamer's rules, or rage-baity. Often abbreviated NCP. Sometimes turned into a joke by chat by continuing the topic in coded language.
(chiefly, Canada, idiomatic) To redirect someone’s attention.