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A clandestine meal consumed over the kitchen sink at midnight, usually consisting of cold leftovers.
Read full entry →The tragic over-saturation and subsequent structural collapse of a baked good into a hot beverage.
Read full entry →A physical assessment of liquid mass to determine if a cup of tea is viable without a trip to the shop.
Read full entry →The covert consumption of the final snack item, followed by feigning ignorance regarding its disappearance.
Read full entry →The frantic, clumsy attempt to slide a debit card into a purse while the cashier glares at you.
Read full entry →The shameful abandonment of frozen peas next to the dog food because you couldn't be bothered to walk back.
Read full entry →The hypnotic compulsion to purchase heavy duty machinery alongside your weekly groceries.
Read full entry →The tactical deployment of intense visual interest in a mannequin to evade high-street clipboard warriors.
Read full entry →A highly suspicious, over-casual walk performed while exiting a store empty-handed past a security guard.
Read full entry →The refusal to purchase £80 of goods because the retailer refuses to absorb a minor delivery fee.
Read full entry →The loud, public accusation of theft from a self-checkout machine over a misweighed lemon.
Read full entry →Feigning deep interest in a display of expensive watches because a torrential downpour just started outside.
Read full entry →An aggressive, rapid-fire scanning technique by a supermarket employee that overwhelms the customer's bagging speed.
Read full entry →The financial transaction of buying an unwanted bottle of water purely to acquire the bathroom key code.
Read full entry →The social misstep of responding to an email within three seconds, thereby inviting more immediate work.
Read full entry →The malicious scheduling of a high-stress email designed to hit an inbox exactly at closing time.
Read full entry →A covert culinary operation executed by temporarily disabling video feeds during a company-wide broadcast.
Read full entry →Seeking sanctuary in a bathroom stall to evade the person who always asks for 'a quick favour'.
Read full entry →A highly modulated, supportive laugh deployed exclusively upwards in a corporate hierarchy.
Read full entry →The depressing act of consuming a sandwich over a laptop, thereby ruining the spacebar mechanism forever.
Read full entry →Highly professional language utilized specifically to highlight a colleague's spectacular incompetence.
Read full entry →A meditative, catatonic state induced by looking at Microsoft Excel while thinking about absolutely nothing.
Read full entry →A 45-minute video call organized entirely to convey two sentences of basic information.
Read full entry →The act of traversing an office with purpose and a random document to avoid being handed actual work.
Read full entry →The dictionary is still being written
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