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adjective

• annoyingly adorable. Or simply adorable and annoying.

  That girlie-girl over there is so annorable.

  Last edited on May 13 2013. Submitted by Morninglori on May 13 2013.

noun - uncountable

• a type of shareware that interrupts use of the software to display a message asking the user to "register" the software (i.e. pay for it.) See also nagware.
  • See more words with the same meaning: computer slang.

  Last edited on Nov 12 2011. Submitted by WalterGR (via TheJargonFile) on Aug 14 2009.

• any software that is annoying.

  Last edited on Nov 12 2011. Submitted by Walter Rader (Editor) from Sacramento, CA, USA on Nov 12 2011.

• "anonymous."

  Know your enemies.
  
  - anon.

  Last edited on Apr 20 2013. Submitted by Walter Rader (Editor) from Sacramento, CA, USA on Aug 11 2009.

noun

• "nerd"; "geek". From the preferred outerwear of birdwatchers, trainspotters, etc. Origin: British.
  • See more words with the same meaning: British, UK slang (list of).
  • See more words with the same meaning: a nerd, geek, dork.

  Last edited on Apr 25 2013. Submitted by Dylan H. from Oxford, Oxfordshire, UK on Jun 17 2003.

• a situation with no possible positive outcome.

  Last edited on Sep 09 2009. Submitted by Walter Rader (Editor) from Sacramento, CA, USA on Sep 09 2009.

• to contribute one's share.

  Last edited on Sep 02 2009. Submitted by Walter Rader (Editor) from Sacramento, CA, USA on Sep 02 2009.

noun

• any place where more than one person appears to have a nasty cough.
  
  Origin: so named because patients in hospitals are grouped in "wards" and one symptom of respiratory anthrax (fatal) is a nasty cough.

  Man, this office is the anthrax ward today.

  Last edited on Jul 17 2013. Submitted by Justin S. from Los Angeles, CA, USA on Dec 10 2004.