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by sidewndr46 1094 days ago
What is an ABCD?
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sbierwagen 1094 days ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American-Born_Confused_Desi
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princevegeta89 1094 days ago
Lol, I never knew there was a Wikipedia article for this slang acronym that we use all the time.
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sbierwagen 1094 days ago
Wikipedia has been backfilling slang terms lately, in competition with urbandictionary and knowyourmeme. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheugy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OK_boomer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%2BRatio etc
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smcin 1094 days ago
Hopefully only the legit subset of urbandictionary.
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brianpan 1094 days ago
See also ABC: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American-born_Chinese
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sidewndr46 1094 days ago
Oh wow, I've seen this without knowing it had a name.
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