11/20/24 “drop the mike, bring out the popcorn”, bomb cyclone, FOMO,
“balls to the wall”,
11/13/24. “poisoned chalice”,
11/017/24 .. “in the weeds”, ‘pollacoaster”…manosphere,
10/20/24. “toxic masculinity”, “mansplain” it, put his “thumb on the scale”,”dark wad?
9/27/24
old ones—“elephant in the room”, “bells and whistles”, “blocking and tackling”.
8/19/24
“on the spectrum”,
Episodic, huge
7/22/24
“rawdogging”, optics, old saw, “feminazi”
5/19/24
bifurcation, trope
5/17/24
electrification ,neuroplasticity
5/16/24
“are you puling my chain?”
AI toolchain
“dont come in here like a chainsaw”
old one: “you never should regret what you do, only what you dont do”
MANY NEW BUZZWORDS LATELY
4/12…”story telling”, chipwreck
4/11 “The Glenn Gary leads are raining from the sky like a meteor shower.” -from a small AI start-up.
4/6/24 “shrinkflation”, “gaslighting”,
4/2/24…old ones coming back?…”in my world, alert the media, a lot to unpack, read the room, in a pickle, hall monitor, a lot on my plate,”
cleans up nice, ‘beyond a shadow of a doubt’, “not in the script”, ” had a good run”, “somebody got the memo”, “rip the band-aid off”,
crapulous, one day wonder, “still kickin not as high”, pontificator,
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11/23..on accidents…”walk off the curb the wrong way”.. “living in extra innings”…
11/6/23 “I’m slammed”
9/12/23 “move the needle”…
8/31/23 ‘spamoflage”…
8/2423…”not inside his head”,”shrinkage”,
8/21/23 “epigenetic reprogramming”
8/2/23 ‘blocking and tackling” (old), cleans up nice, ” train left the station”, read the room,
6/13/23 oldies for under 30 crowd: “ducks in a row”, “blue sky thinking”, ”low hanging fruit”, “touch base”. etc.
5/22/23..”welcome to my world”…(oldie)
5/13/23...oldies: dollars to donuts, eyes wide open, work the room, in pickle , a lot to unpack.
new ones: one pepper menu item, filet bubble, hall monitor
4/14/23…”corporado” , “so slammed”, buzzkill-old, trope,”remote working”,
4/10…’talk ’em off the ledge”,
4/8/23…”word salad”, so whatever,
4/4/23…”in the twilight zone.”… “sucked all the air outta the room”…sandbox politics…”We’ll see” DJT…broga
3/28/23….gin-up, fake fruit, emotional shrapnel, GOAT,
3/23/23….lots more oldies but not my favs;
“aint getting any younger”…”bee in his bonnet”…loose cannon…”you had a great run”….I’ll have your back…”drinking the kool aid”..”wake up call”…”nip in the bud”…”devil in the detail”…
2/23/23 ..more oldies- “low hanging fruit’, “get on the horn”. “rack out”, “analysis paralysis”, “out of pocket”. wake-up call, cards on the table…nip in the bud
1/24/23…”it’s a moth in flames situation”-Cramer, “back up the truck”-an old one.
1/20/23 “more juiced to be squeezed from this lemon”
1/9/23…”back in the day”…pivot
11/18 ..”look past the divot”..
9/30 sports analogies :
in the 7th inning, shots on goal, over his skis, the balls in your court, slam dunk, Monday morning QB, best offense is a good defense, “softball question”,
6/15 “dust-up”,…Jack Del Rio
move-on, let it go not age appropriate?
“paint or get off the ladder”
5/25..PE Multiple Compression….what is value?
3/11/22…”face mute”-sound only on a zoom call, “brightside” v- be too optimistic in a discussion
1/7/22. ‘I’m gonna skip this dance”, “back in the day”
11/23. “everything is political these days”…, ” wordf**k ”
10/27 Info Junkie
10/19/21. Guys: “shake those last drops off guys”…DR
“don’t look back, they may be gaining on you”
old one : “who are those guys”?
10/8/21 old ones: ” you have to eat your own dog food”, “talk your book”
10/5/21 “coloring outside the lines”, “back in the day”
8/18.21 metaverse, peak everything
6/9 ” Whaddya talkin’ about!?, YOLO as per meme trading.
5/10. ” a lot to unpack there”…
4/30 ” the dog that didn’t bark”..
3/16 “don’t police your feelings”…….
2/15 “diamond hands” and “paper hands”
1/31 “off ramp”, “bolt on”
1/29..”gamification” of trading e.g. GME, again “Atmospheric River”
1/24 “Normalcy”…..
11/23 2020 Oxford Word of the Year: Blursday, doom scrolling, remote…..etc
10/24 mahoff, macher
10/9/20…”stay in your lane”, “every rock being overturned”….
9/17 “deep dive into”, gaffe–“herd mentality”
“ya gotta know how ya roll ” , NHR; in craps or your strength and skill set
8/21 “its all ginned up”, Sen Ron Johnson on USPS concerns
7/24 shaming, concerning
7/13 “cancel culture”, woke, Black Lives Matter,
4/27 “bifurcation” like stocks are up while GDP is down, FOMO “fear of missing out”.
3/28 social distancing, cytokine storm, shelter in place
3/26 “herd immunity”, re-purpose drugs
3/23 social distancing, bloviate, helicopter money-big bazooka
2/23/20 contagion, dis-information
2/19/20 “get over it”-old, MSM -very old,
2/2/20 “deepfake”-using synthetic media to distort a photo or video
“unpack”- explain or try to understand new information
12/13/19..”you need ball control”…,skronk, gasbagger
11/30/19 ” he puts his pants on one leg at a time just like everybody else”.. (old one)
11/1819. ” when the curtain goes up you gotta have your mojo working”…..
“…..depends on the last man he talked to when he stepped out of the elevator…”
11/7/19. Internet pollution–random videos that pop up with sound on the web site
11/4/19 circumduction-movement of a limb so that the distal end describes a circle
10/30/19 ” ya gotta know how you roll”-Pete Najarian, Nick Rayno.
coterminous: having the same boundaries in space or meaning.
exfiltrate: withdraw troops or spies from a dangerous position
10/23/19..from BIO; “re-purpose”, “politician based -solutions are a blunt tool”
“wilderness of mirrors”, portmanteau ,
from twitter –so sad today…”obsessive thinking feels just about right”
9/25/19…” a lot to unpack there”…re- information
6/27/19…..”welcome to the world I live in”……, monumental,
6/ 11/19. “put your finger on the scale”…
5/29… “trap door”, “outside my area of expertise”
5/27…”nobody cares until somebody cares”…about Huawei.
5/22/19…mercurial, glide path
5/16/19 …hopium, automagical
4/20/19 “melt-up”, FOMO-“fear of missing out’ both regarding bullish outlook on stocks.
3/25/19…clothier says ” you don’t want to look like a schlub“; puts his “thumb on the scale”,
“I got a guy”, “he ‘s your guy for that”.
2/13/19… old one-“taken to the woodshed”
1/10/19 ” spread the love bro”…
12/24/18 “cringe-worthy”, mauschwitz
12/18 from SV…”let me unpack that”…
12/13/18 “ghosting”-going silent or absent in a relationship, “poncy”-pretentious
12/6/18 …”uncertainty”, “volatility”, “whistling pass the graveyard”, “bee in his bonnet ”
11/12 ..”weaponize”, “pick the lock”
10/15…”mindfulness”
9/25…”what are you talking about?!”..aggressive conversational comment
9/19…”what’s the hesitation”? from TD Ameritrade Ad on shooting pool
8/30…”thrown under the bus”–old one coming back
8/12 “you can’t put the toothpaste back in the tube”
8/2…”your shot clock has expired” (no more pitch time), “hate mail”
7/23 “he has your back”…i.e. you got support
7/18/18…”he is a beast”, “that ship has sailed”, “I was not in the room”, “do the math”
6/29…”bro culture”…pundit referring to old Nike management team
6/6/18…tail risk, “nothing burger”..
5/9…. “rattle their cage” (old)
5/2/18 …”read-out on the print”…
4/27/18 Flywheel…driver of business ie Amazon strategy
4/24/18 “when you peel back the wall paper what you find”
4/18/18 “juju”, good vibes or good luck surroundings
4/16/18 entangled (old but good still), psychidyllic (new)
4/11/18 “what we have here is a failure to communicate” , “Cool Hand Luke”
4/11/18 “let Trump be Trump”, FOX
4/9/18 “micro-aggressions”, agro, passive-aggressive
3/19/18 “if the rain holds up it won’t come down”, ” if it’s not one thing it’s your mother”, “when the next card turns over”
2/28/18 “white lies”
2/18/18 “that’s right”, “show a little leg”,
2/2/18 “different bite of the apple”
1/17/18 “back on their heels”
1/11/18 smart phone addict
1/10/18 algorithms , machine learning, supercomputing, big data
12/15/17 “move the chains”…
12/5/17 “pillow talk”..from long ago , re corporate romances
11/20/17 “tribe”
11/17/17 “paint the tape”, hiccup, “fade it”
11/8/17 “dysfunctional and transparent ” way overused
9/27/17 ” genie is out of the bottle”-old but back again
9/22/17 “we’ll see” DJT
….”her contentment undermines my ambition”…Ben Stiller
character….Movie-“Brad’s Status”
9/15/17 “Don’t bro me”….RSR
8/8/17 “secret sauce’ is back, hyper scale, push back, pivot-really big in politics, “get into your head”, high touch business-needs a lot of managers.
7/19/17 Motion capture -digital film technique
6/27/17 “Auto da fe’ : ceremony for pronouncing judgement by the Inquisition
6/8/17 “no fuzz” on information, troll, “colors inside the lines”
6/5/17 new political jargon–“populitists”, “libertrarians”
6/1/17 “on our heels”, “weaponize”, “add protein to your salad?”, lobsterize
1/23/17 ALL NEW: “alt facts”, “animal spirits”, “tape bomb”
1/5 “adults in the room” ..reaching cliche levels
12/30 “genderize”-make a critical comment based upon one’s gender
12/9…”post-truth”–reflects a world where facts matter less in shaping public opinion than appeals to emotion and personal belief.(see Oxford dictionary)
10/16 “guard rail”-some type of boundary as a figure of speech
9/16 LDL=”let’s discuss live” not in an e mail
“empty calories”-a portfolio or product group within a company that is not core to business
8/18 “dog whistle” -a media message presumably targeted to a select population
7/13 “giving froth” -getting media attention or hype
“reached out”-try to connect
6/15 “where the puck is going” -trending, “turn on the lights”-getting followers or hits
5/5 “in the weeds”- information that may not be obvious or hard to uncover
4/29 “slow-leavers” people who get in their car at a parking spot as if they are leaving then hang out to check their phones etc or just don’t want to be rushed
12/2 “normie”, different direction
11/16 “all hat and no cattle”
11/12 “off the grid”, “marinate some ice cubes”
11/5 blockchain, “locked-in”-as in the groove
10/5 hacktivist
9/7/15
bon mot, porn-brain, sanguine
8/10/15 “listicles”
8/5/15 “TV bundle”
7/13/15
“click-bait”
7/6/15
bête noire, roman a clef
6/5/15
dispersion
blunt tool
synthetic credit- a structured financial product or derivative created for high yield
4/21/15
“brain rape”- stealing business ideas or IP
dynamic layering-used in manipulation of stock market trades
spoofing-Email trickery like faking the origin of a message
4/20/15
“potpreneur”-weed biz
3/17/15
“hair on fire”, “get a ride”, “go social”,
1/30/15
wonky, ecosystem
1/22/15
Teen street talk from the 50s in “Rebel Without a Cause” : too much, twisted, hang loose, crazy, flake out, fuzz, cool and grass.
11/19
“flesh in the game”
“lost in the weeds”
“right as rain”
motif
9/30
“good to go”, “out on our skis”, “it’s nothing”
9/15
boundaries ( as in psych ), twitter storm
DO NOT USE–…..”throw out baby with the bathwater”…Why can’t somebody come up with an alternative?
8/29
“mind meld”, “optics” now overused, “take it to social”-within the Company
6/27
“good for him” , Greg in gym 2014
“get it while you can”, WR Weston MA 1993
6/9
“be constructive”, tax inversion deals
5/16
“off message”, “crowded trades”
5/12
de minimus ( e.g.level of risk is small)
4/1
conscious uncoupling..Gwyneth..
data driven
3/20
micro-targeted marketing e.g. single women 20-29 who watch “New Girl”
aligned, alignment
2/26/14
de minimus
game face
Eww! From Jimmy Fallon Late Night
entangled (still good)
bubble, bubblet
battle stations, go down in flames
2/2/14
from NFL “thug”
from politics “red meat elements”
from media “herding goats”
random net surfing “cyberloafing”
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Verbal Tics? … “I just want you to know”…
Why Verbal Tee-Ups Like ‘To Be Honest’ Are a Signal of Insincerity – WSJ.com
1/6/14
“reversion to mean”
“fat finger trade”
anthropocene era-The Lost World
1/2/14
WSJ looking for overused, buzzwords to ban and our list contains many.
Which Buzzwords Would You Ban? – WSJ.com —-Start with “move the needle”. ‘Lumpy” getting overused as well.
12/30
goggle gap-when your ski goggles don’t reach the helmet
chicken head-bobbing your head to music
11/27
big data
11/19
“selfie”
vapor stock
11/13
“If you don’t schmooze you lose”
“hug it out”
10/2
“boil the ocean”
(something hard to do)
8/27
“undertoad”
–worry, fear and anxiety, concern etc–
From “The World According to Garp”
8/26
interpolation
–snipping melodies from another song–
8/19
electroceuticals
8/14
…wait..whaaaat!!
geocaching
8/7
flywheel
high altitude vision
8/1
“He’s a dog you don’t leave on the porch”
Texas proverb about someone who is hard to control.
“blunderbuss”
A blundering person; a bungler: scattershot.
7/15
“cinemagraphic carnival”
comment by Mark Leibovich talking about the Washington gold rush in his book “This Town”.
7/9
biomimicry
7/1/13-7/2/13
“this side of the grass” , Fempire
6/17/13
“hair on fire”, secret sauce, “drinking through a fire hose”, “dog that caught the bus”
6/5/13
freegan
5/31/13
paywall, paycation
advertorial,edutainment,infomercial
knaidel
5/24/13
conundrum, “Q” score
taper (as in FED easing), translational medicine (understand clinical implications earlier in drug discovery)
5/14/13
squirrely, disruptive, “on its heels”, “macro tourists”, “hard wire”, “overplay their hand”
5/13/13
delight, delightful
5/10/13
“medibles”
give lotta love, train wreck, white on rice (old), behind the curve, hall pass, harsh, later
and old ones coming back today in LATimes: “feather in the cap”, “step up to the plate”
4/21
lockdown, bubblet
3/22/13
flyover, artisanal, give color, OK
Banned Buzzwords from Lake Superior State Univ.
e.g. doubledown, guru, superfood, spoiler alert etc
different direction
10/12
ruggedize (DF)
aesthetic medicine
malarkey
over their skis
6/4/12
“painting the tape”
hypernet
“adult supervision”—huge
“good for you”
5/9/12 New
emotional IQ
random
meta
4/6/12
“Above the Rim”
New Buzzwords 2/28/12
Tea-Vangelicals
Trending
Technology Loop (from Portlandia)
Take a knee
WORD of the Day: Vaporized
MFnGlobal customer funds were vaporized.
zerohedge.com/contributed/mf-global-customer-funds-were-not-vaporized-stanley-haar-takes-wsj-task
Buzzwords and Org Jargon
(needs a little editing)
Ever sit in a meeting and hear a word and say hmm that says it, who started that expression? New buzzwords are created faster than ever as pop culture and media rule. Katie Couric (ex-Today Show) for example was the buzzword and hairdo queen.
But do you get annoyed* by someone who uses hackneyed buzzwords or popular ones repetitively? Like almost when every sentence uttered gets the refrain “exactly”or “zactly”. And by now we all hate “Hell-low” and “on the same page”. Believe it or not ,”throw out the baby with the bathwater” is back more than ever”. Well here is a working compendium of some commonly used jargon. Don’t stop here. We hope you will create your own buzzwords and start a trend, but these new words have a very short half-life before annoyance sets in. Send your buzzwords to www.raygent.com for updating this list.
Expression of the year is WDF.
Bizbabble
micromanage in the eighth (7th) inning
strategic fit out of the loop
juice out of pocket (way, way old)*
tactical at the end of the day (way old)*
revisit process (noun or verb)
in here end of the world
synergy think outside the box *
pro-active move the needle (dial)
game plan moving(going) forward
fast track connect the dots
rebalancing lost the recipe
leverage-de(ing) result driven
empower touch base; hit the cover off the ball
deliverables take that off-line
reinvent our plate is full*
traction client or customer focused
drivers float an idea; put a feeler out
benchmark boo-yah!
vetted stakeholders
in the rear view mirror artifact of the deal
validate core competencies
burn-rate back up the truck
rebalance blocking and tackling*
win (-win),need a win head’s up
behind the curve growth engine
blockbuster knowledge base
breakthrough mind-set (share)
conundrum push the envelope*
flattening bottom line
execution progressive approach
aggressive key takeaway
ask(noun)* buy-in
robust best practice
slippery slope value added
impudence feet on the street
giveback, pushback work through
granularity transparent(cy)
north of (higher)* on the same page*
baked in (the cake) penny drops quickly
team landscaped vacuumed
compelling loose cannon*
grab-bag bit rate
scale-able founder-itis
convergence shots on goal
raising the bar* land grab
disruptive blackbox
workaround ebb and flow
multitasking culture
switch gears morph
on the edge atomization
liquidity ramp
good call can do
crash and burn additional runway
good cop, bad cop elephant hunt
better landscape roll ups
red flag whisper mill
accountable softball questions
outsource branched out
footprint well crafted
slam dunk modulated
go flat actionable
war room* sharp elbows*
off message food chain
juice jingle mail
biomarker that’s the market
arch an eyebrow business rhythm
..I can taste it.. eyeball
paper up dodged a bullet
hot seat ouch!
engine*
vaporized
drill down(on it), player
talk their book, blahflation
relo, clawback
giddyup, disruptive (technology)
golden coffin, “drill, drill, drill” (Kudlow)
solutions* ,”land banks” (Cramer)
on the horn* , holy cow!
crowded trade, liquidity backstop
monetize, liar loans
telepresence, bailout
upside down, cash runway
spot on, bench strength
derivatives, meltdown
back channel, backstory, tone deaf
skin in the game, mad as hell
toxic assets, franken-derivatives
zombie banks, legacy assets
lockdown, full body contact
lumpy, green-lit
headline risk , optics
due negligence, cap and trade
fresh eyes, lift the hood up
talk your book, shoe to drop
new normal, crowded trade
double-dip, price discovery
stalled, Goldilocks economy
fat tail, good cop/bad cop
algo trades, robo-trades
give color, bolt on
crowded trade, wow data
strategic alternative
General Use Buzzwords
cool wavelength brainstorm
focused bandwidth judgement call
trendy kick-back* 24/7 (way overused)*
buzz absolutely paradigm (can be used 1001 ways!)*
edgey* wildcard over the top
exactly* connected relationship
whatever* tape loops hipster
chill hell-lo!* wake-up call
holy grail furshure high maintenance
nabobs doom-mongers the darkside
face time hottie, hunk do ya think?
twisted green rewind, go-back
bubble-up soundbite dude, bro, bra, bud
hold court so over phone-tag (obsolete)
bummer fun prickly
move on topical get a life
wassup* whatup it rocks*
planet awesome best in class*
issues suck it up get a little love
entangled perfect storm way too much (time)
later wink and nod digerati
granite* who knew? optics,optical
dovetail present hassle (way old)
the new- vibe political storm
dialed in truculent blackbox*
be safe sweet hold’s court
tripped-out sticky hardbody
eye candy organically townie
stoked sick scuttlebutt
mojo hoot homey
rad dumbrella bellwether
mutt very tired get a life
neg shred my friend
well duh keeper doyenne
meat eaters bread of life pachyderm proportions
bummer perky gravitas
proclivities predilection wonky
bonding agenda snarky
prescient baggage chary
embedded footprint grazing
buzzkill Koombayah grim
it matters comfort food do-overs
wicked, bimbotante, jagoff (PIT)
big table ,celebutante, hat in hand
turnkey#, leading edge#, a leader#
bitchin’ , sketchy . uh oh, harsh
grim, end of story, namaste
honey-do’s* ,epiphany, gateway drug
Joe SixPack, genetic obedience, hyphenate
Gut check. head fake, dystopian
Lollygaggin’ ,Fourth Estate
Old school ,brainworm, backstory
Drunk dialed, foodie, slide path
Blowout, ego-parked
Rope a dope , didn’t get the memo
Back channel, work around
Keep it real, for sure
Stay-up
Cross collateralized, white space
Random Expressions and Idioms
Feeling their oats*
It’s a slam dunk
Way of the buffalo
This time it’s different
How do we turn lemons into lemonade?
Is the juice worth the squeeze?
Elephant in the room
It is what it is
Trippin’ very hard
Always be closing (Glen Garry Glen Ross)
Smell the coffee
Whaddya got for me?
I coulda been a contendeh
Life in the slow (fast) lane
Life is good
Step up to the plate
Walk the walk, talk the talk*
Be careful what you wish for.
Where the rubber meets the road
Hotel California deal-can get in but can’t get out
Size doesn’t matter
Late to the party
Been there, done that*
We’re running out of road (need more leeway).
I am out of bandwidth. We need more bandwidth.
Ping me.
Where is the upside?
Lots of FUD.
Be here now.
Thank you very much.
From the get-go.
Don’t go there*
Shot across the bow.
…on the planet….
Life is good
It is not you, it is me.
Recipe for making money.
You must chill.
I’d like to say…
Cut to the chase.
Takes the air out of the balloon.
When the balloon drops
Use it or lose it
Paint by numbers
800 lb. Gorilla*
Do what ya gotta do
The horse is outta the stable
…he(she) has a lotta issues*
roll their eyes
..baby out with the bathwater…(it is back!)*
..way overdone by the media..
asleep at the switch*
..the end is near..
There is no there there….Gertrude Stein
If it ain’t broke don’t fix it
I gotta have more cowbell (SNL)
..taking on water..
..put lipstick on a pig..
..greasy pole of success..TSEliot
..then the wheels came off…
..he deserves the toast with stale beer with the cig butts swimming on top..
what da f*ck…!
opaque or transparent market/company
catch a falling knife
someone hits the windshield(in a momentum market)
we don’t know what we don’t know
I don’t wanno know nothing about anything
Nobody knows anythingIt aint what you don’t know that gets you into trouble. It’s what you know for sure that just aint so.”–Mark Twainmore… more ….more
Last one at the table
It’s like anything
Deep end of the pool
Puts his pants on one leg at a time
Depends on the meaning of is is
Hat in hand
Pull your socks up
It’s a wrap
Moral compass
Look behind the curtain
Kick the can down the road(really popular)
Runts of the litter
Risk aversion
It’ll be a dark Christmas
Humanistic event (Kudlow)
NINA-no income no assets
Catch a falling knife
Fatuous blather
Play the other side
Angle is too steep.
Dollars to donuts (way old)
He is uncomfortable in his own skin.
It is as high as an elephant’s eye
Take away the punch bowl
Comparative effectiveness research (healthcare)
”Try to have a good day Dude ”. Liftline Alta 1999
Sample sentences (with new expressions)
That’s good, but focusing on the core competency is always a key driver for our growth engine.
Also executing these deliverables into a viral marketing approach will leverage the business model to achieve mind-share and reach critical mass. If that works, I think building a new value chain with channel partners and other stakeholders could help you gain traction and hit the†next release†out of the park.† If you need support, I could contribute human capital to the cause but that would require†fully valued†remuneration with an incentivized bonus scale.
That is what I’m talkin’ about.
At the end of the day, we should stop looking in the rear view mirror and reinvent ourselves, but try not to get over the top. Otherwise it’ll be a do-over.