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Camel case

A variable-naming style that separates the parts of a name with capitals, as in FirstSecondThird. See also: pothole case, kebab case.

Combatativeness

"Combativeness" is a word. So is "combatative".. : Is "combatativeness" an existing word? Should it be? Is it better than "combativeness"?


Contradictorily

"In selling stock, the filer is not contradictorily asserting it is solvent; the *buyers* are saying that."

Googleability or Googlability

A measure of how easy it is to find information about a person on the Web.

  Which spelling is better? 


Kairos.

καιρός. "a passing instant when an opening appears which must be driven through with force if success is to be achieved."

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Kebab case

A variable-naming style that separates the parts of a name with dashes, as in first-second-third. See also: camel case, pothole case.


==Pothole case== A variable-naming style that separates the parts of a name with underscores, as in first_second_third. See also: camel case, kebab case.

PUMP AND DUMP

1. The stock manipulation trick of using rumor or purchase to inflate a stock's purchase and then selling it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pump_and_dump.  2. The political dirty trick of getting a crowd so excited that it charges off to wreck a  building or kill someone, so it gets in trouble and discredits the movement, and then quietly leaving before the arrests and shooting.  3. A Full Service Company Offering Residential & Commercial Septic Services. https://www.pumpndumpusa.com/.

RAREBIT

Ambrose Bierce (1911): "Rarebit n. A Welsh rabbit, in the speech of the humorless, who point out that it is not a rabbit. To whom it may be solemnly explained that the comestible known as toad in the hole is really not a toad, and that ris de veau à la financière is not the smile of a calf prepared after the recipe of a she banker."