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Halloweek is an informal name for the week of Halloween—the days around October 31 treated as one stretch of holiday events and costumes.
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Jawn is Philadelphia slang for a person, place, thing, or event when you do not need—or do not know—a more specific word.
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Psychs is usually the third-person form of the informal verb psych (to pump someone up or mess with their head), and people also search it for the joking shout “Psych!” and related slang.
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Interstitial means relating to a gap or interval between things; in medicine it often refers to spaces between cells or tissues, and as a noun it can mean a full-screen ad shown while a page loads.
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A Möbius strip (also spelled Mobius or Moebius) is a one-sided geometric surface made by giving a rectangular strip a half-twist and joining the ends.
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Fogerty is an Irish surname, a spelling variant of Fogarty, from Ó Fógartaigh—“descendant of Fógartach.”
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A vaporetto is a public motorboat that works like a city bus on the canals of Venice, Italy.
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Vibe coding is writing software by telling an AI what you want in everyday language and letting it generate the code, often without carefully reading or understanding every line it produces.
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