(UK) A cultural change in the field of medicine sparked by the conviction of Harold Shipman in 2000 for murdering his patients, and the formal recommendations from the subsequent Shipman Inquiry.
(UK) A cultural change in the field of medicine sparked by the conviction of Harold Shipman in 2000 for murdering his patients, and the formal recommendations from the subsequent Shipman Inquiry.
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UK and Irish slang — Cockney, Scouse, Geordie, Yorkshire, Glaswegian, Brummie, Welsh, West Country, plus Irish English. Centuries of regional dialects feeding into modern British and Irish street talk.
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(UK, informal) The upsurge in women requesting cervical cancer screenings after the much-publicized death from that disease of English reality TV contestant Jade Goody (1981–2009).
A call to release code to production. Prioritizes getting in front of users over chasing perfection. "Ship it" is the engineering equivalent of ripping off a band-aid — enabled by feature flags, gradual rollouts, and a willingness to fix forward rather than delay.
(chiefly, British) A regime intended to deter crime by making an immediate severe impact.
The moment you have been fully converted to believing in a particular pairing — you have taken the pill, seen the light, and now you cannot unsee the chemistry. Being ship pilled is the point of no return. Before: you watched the show casually. After: you are sourcing every gifset, reading fan theories, and genuinely emotionally invested in whether these two fictional people end up together. It is not something you chose; it happened to you. One scene, one gifset sent by a chaotic friend, one rabbit hole at midnight, and suddenly you are ship pilled and it is not a phase.