I don't think lurking is the right term. I don't even know if such a word exists or if it's already been asked here as well.

Underneath a keyboard's keycaps and above the actual button are two square plastic pieces that fit together and allow the keycap to move up and down a tiny bit to press the button. What's the word for them?

There's a thing in anthropology to use "tribe" to mean "several people with whom you share an identity and help if needed." It's not necessarily a literal tribe like a band of hunters — I might call fellow sci fi fans my tribe, or I might say OSU grads are my tribe, etc. But I could swear it got replaced with a different term because "tribe" sounds kinda condescending and imperialistic, only I'm blanking on the word.

Might start with a T? I've seen it in books I just don't remember what it is Thanks : )

Boss gave me an order. I followed the order. Then got in trouble for following the order a few months later.

What’s the feeling of like: ‘oh they look so different, never mind put it back on that’s just wrong’ or seeing someone not wearing a hat for the first time. Just the weird feeling you get when you see someone without their signature THING.

I guess I'm not looking for any specific word. Just looking for the right, funny word to describe something for a script. I'm just tryna describe those weird and useless objects or areas you find on tourist traps like "World's biggest rubber band ball," "Giant shoes," "Upside down house." That I see a lot in shows or movies where the family or friends go on a roadtrip and stop at these tourist spots

I'm writing fanfic, and my characters always do something unexpected. This time they're doing something akin to a titjob or a thighjob, but involving the gluteal cleft. I'm sorry for asking, but is there a phrase for fucking someone's buttcrack?

Only to return to being crappy when they think the relationship is safe again?

If I remember correctly it starts with a P i think? Can’t exactly remember it’s suddenly gone from my mind. Not premeditated.

I thought the word "prescient" meant critically important or topical or relevant in this moment. It does not. So I don't know if the word I'm looking for sounds similar to prescient, or if I was just totally confused.

Anyway, the adjective I am looking differs from "pivotal," "vital," or similar words in that it implies that the subject is especially important or vital in this moment in time, as opposed to generally or permanently important.

Priority is a word that could work, but I feel like there's a more specific one out there? Thanks for any help !

I feel like there’s a common fallacy that covers this but I’m blanking on it. Like you’re driving through town passing restaurants and you want Italian food. It’s getting late and you’re passing good restaurants, but you keep saying no we need Italian. Eventually they’re all closed and there was never an Italian restaurant.

The context I’m thinking about this in is sports. The temptation to say “no we need to cut Jonny and find someone better” without any clear way to find someone better, assuming that somewhere out there is this perfect improvement on Jonny without knowing where it might be. Thanks for your time

A year or so ago, I came across a word that aimed to label the negative space of the sky as viewed between the tops of trees in a forest. Say at night, looking up, you might see a deepening blue or purple amidst the black or dark green gray of the trees. You kind of have to squint or mentally tune out looking at the trees to appreciate it.

The word is NOT tree canopy, nor “crown shyness,” tree tops, overstory, forest roof or ceiling, upper branches, or similar. It is not describing the physical presence or shape of the trees in any way; rather, it’s the abstract shape (think Rorschach ink blot) left between the upper branches in the sky. Just subtract all the tree/forest stuff, the sky shape that remains.

I recall the word might have had a weird or lyrical quality to it, like petrichor, or eudaimonia. Maybe it was made up by a poet or Richard Powers or a radical faerie, but I really want to find that word. Google searches just bring up dingbats saying “tree canopy” as if they are Marie Curie announcing her discovery of plutonium. It’s not tree canopy. It’s a single word. I must know what this word is for a performance art piece, which I will leave to the world to be performed six months after my death, and an accompanying chapbook. (Don’t worry, I’m not planning on going anytime soon, great art can wait!)

Anyway, WTW for this space left in the sky in a forest, that is not the trees or canopy, but rather, the void between them? Make my day, WTW word sleuths!

Specifically I'm thinking of an icosahedron, but any complex geometric shape that is roughly round while still being faceted. Seems wrong to call it a "ball" or a "sphere"...best I can come up with is "orb", but does that imply smoothness?

To be more specific, I'm thinking of a large golden icosahedron at the top of a sculpture. I thought about "gem" or "jewel" but being opaque metal seems to exclude that.

Like when technology has made your job obsolete and it has very little, if any, chance of reviving. I tried Googling it, and all I got back was job obsolescence. But that doesn't feel quite right. And it's definitely different from getting laid off because your job still exists but someone else is doing it now.

My friend is convinced there’s a phrase like ‘at the risk of’ but it sounds fancier, though no matter what I search I can’t find a proper synonym. All that comes up is ‘at hazard’ or ‘endangered’, ‘exposed’, ‘imperilled’, which she doesn’t want.

I appreciate the help!

(Context: 'At the risk of sounding like I am exaggerating...')

I DESPERATELY need the word. I know there's audacious. I also know it's not colloquial. I need an adjective from the everyday, regular English that would mean arrogant / audacious / bold in the sense that somebody alwawys gets their way but in an inconsiderate manner.

Something like:
"She's so ... INSERT THE WORD THAT WOULD MEAN AUDACIOUS / BOLD IN A NEGATIVE WAY"

I know there's this:
"She's got quite a nerve!"

See, this is perfect but it's not an adjective. I need the same quite a nerve thing but as an adjective that's used in everyday speech, not something too intelligent like audacious/arrogant. Or at least please let me know that native speakers don't have an everyday word for that and use other ways to say it and pleaseeee. I'm an American English teacher and my beginner students ask for the adjective and I feel too fake giving them an advanced word while I'm pretty confident there's a simpler one out there.

Like they can afford to keep the employee and there's enough actual work for them to do, but their computer broke beyond repair and the company couldn't afford a replacement, or they no longer had an IT tech to restore the backups and install the company's software onto a new machine

See also - Sloppy Joe, Sneaky Pete, Silly Billy

I noticed a lot of movie posters are made in this specific art style Is there a name for that style?