Words

Camel case

A variable-naming style that separates the parts of a name with capitals, as in FirstSecondThird. See also: pothole case, kebab case.

Combatativeness

"Combativeness" is a word. So is "combatative".. : Is "combatativeness" an existing word? Should it be? Is it better than "combativeness"?

CHYMPS

CHYMPS is the acronym for the top political science PhD programs in the United States. It is the political science PhD equivalent to HYS (Harvard, Yale, Stanford) for law schools and HSW (Harvard, Stanford, Wharton) for business schools. CHYMPS stands for:

Cal-Berkeley
Harvard
Yale
Michigan
Princeton
Stanford.

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The acronym was originally Hypes-Bomb (Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Stanford, Berkeley, MIT) as a shorthand for the top political science departments (perhaps pejorative, as in overhyped but famous political science schools).

Hypes-Bomb then morphed to CHYMPS since it’s catchier.

CHYMPS then became the updated HYP as an acronym for the most prestigious schools in the US generally (see Urban Dictionary entry from 2009), though it’s causing some confusion among Columbia, Cornell, Caltech, and University of Chicago fans who feel that “C” should stand for them, not Cal-Berkeley (just a bias against public schools IMO, since Cal is clearly superior to the other “C” schools, at least at the graduate level).
--https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-origin-of-the-CHYMPS-Cal-Berkeley-Harvard-Yale-MIT-Princeton-and-Stanford

Contradictorily

"In selling stock, the filer is not contradictorily asserting it is solvent; the *buyers* are saying that."

Googleability or Googlability

A measure of how easy it is to find information about a person on the Web.

  Which spelling is better? 

Kairos.

καιρός. "a passing instant when an opening appears which must be driven through with force if success is to be achieved."

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Kebab case

A variable-naming style that separates the parts of a name with dashes, as in first-second-third. See also: camel case, pothole case.

Pothole case

A variable-naming style that separates the parts of a name with underscores, as in first_second_third. See also: camel case, kebab case.

Pronunciamento

A pronunciamiento (Spanish: [pɾonunθjaˈmjento], Portuguese: pronunciamento [pɾunũsiɐˈmẽtu]; "proclamation , announcement or declaration") is a form of military rebellion or coup d'état particularly associated with Spain, Portugal and Latin America, especially in the 19th century.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pronunciamiento

PUMP AND DUMP

1. The stock manipulation trick of using rumor or purchase to inflate a stock's purchase and then selling it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pump_and_dump.  2. The political dirty trick of getting a crowd so excited that it charges off to wreck a  building or kill someone, so it gets in trouble and discredits the movement, and then quietly leaving before the arrests and shooting.  3. A Full Service Company Offering Residential & Commercial Septic Services. https://www.pumpndumpusa.com/.

RAREBIT

Ambrose Bierce (1911): "Rarebit n. A Welsh rabbit, in the speech of the humorless, who point out that it is not a rabbit. To whom it may be solemnly explained that the comestible known as toad in the hole is really not a toad, and that ris de veau à la financière is not the smile of a calf prepared after the recipe of a she banker."

Spitster

A double-cup invention for eating sunflower seeds, peanuts, or pistachios. https://www.prweb.com/releases/2012/3/prweb9254850.htm

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