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by Thorrez 2053 days ago
I've actually heard people verbally use the word "doubleclick" to mean explore. For example, someone in a meeting might mention some idea. Then my colleague would say "let's doubleclick on that for a minute".
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I'm going to start using that in my meetings, alongside "drill down", "circle back", and "take it offline".

Office Space became a lot less funny when I started living it.

My person pet peeve jargon is people who use surface in sentences like "what ideas does this surface?"

Unless you're a submarine, surface isn't a verb!

That's pretty common, there are 53,000 results for "surfaced a problem":

https://www.google.com/search?q="surfaced+a+problem"

Looks like someone has a case of the mondays ;)
Wow, that's truly awful.
It gets worse.

Where I am people use "doubleclick" and "tripleclick" as nouns to represent specific levels of detail. As in, "I think we've got a good story for the doubleclick but I want to hear more about the tripleclick on Topic X."