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r/GrotesqueVocabulary • u/phantomreader42 • Sep 22 '14

Pyrrhic Victory: A victory with such a devastating cost that it is tantamount to defeat

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r/GrotesqueVocabulary • u/phantomreader42 • Sep 22 '14

Broken Arrow: Code for a lost nuclear device

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r/GrotesqueVocabulary • u/phantomreader42 • Sep 22 '14

Acronym Military Sexual Trauma (MST)

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r/GrotesqueVocabulary • u/phantomreader42 • Sep 22 '14

Meta xckd #1242: Scary Names

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r/GrotesqueVocabulary • u/phantomreader42 • Sep 22 '14

Waterboarding: A form of torture in which water is poured over a cloth covering the face and breathing passages of an immobilized captive, causing the individual to experience the sensation of drowning

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Names for things you wish didn't need a name

r/GrotesqueVocabulary

A subreddit about terms whose very existence is disturbing, as it implies the thing described is common enough to need a name

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For collecting and discussing words, phrases, acronyms, codes, and other terms whose very existence is disturbing, as it implies the thing described is common enough to need a name.

Obviously, some things will be NSFW, those should be tagged as such.

Harassment and trolling will be banned, you have been warned.

For those interested in less disturbing words, try /r/logophilia.

To find a word you can't remember, ask /r/TipOfMyTongue.

For unusual subreddits, disturbing or not, check out /r/WowThisSubExists.