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Dave Wilton

05 Feb 2025 • 7 min read
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Photo of a fishing boat with the name Butt Ugly moored at a quay in Juneau, Alaska

buttload / butt ugly

6 July 2026 Buttload is a slang term meaning a great quantity of something. It’s a relatively recent term; it starts to appear in the late 1980s. The -load is self-explanatory, But why butt? The butt comes from a slang use of that word as an intensifier. University
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podcast

3 July 2026 A podcast is an audiovisual file—originally and most commonly audio only—or series of files that are made available for download to a portable media player. The audio format is usually MP3, and the files are distributed by an RSS feed or similar technology. It is
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