# Tropes, Memes and other stuff you learned about at SDMB

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tropes-memes-and-other-stuff-you-learned-about-at-sdmb/556240>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [October 6, 2010, 12:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tropes-memes-and-other-stuff-you-learned-about-at-sdmb/556240 "2010-10-06T12:13:41Z")\
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**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\
**Post date:** [October 6, 2010, 12:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tropes-memes-and-other-stuff-you-learned-about-at-sdmb/556240/1 "2010-10-06T12:13:41Z")

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Even if you aren’t sure what they mean, there must be other terms like these that you never heard about until you started reading here.

What are some others?

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**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\
**Post date:** [October 6, 2010, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tropes-memes-and-other-stuff-you-learned-about-at-sdmb/556240/2 "2010-10-06T14:54:30Z")

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In case the OP isn’t clear, I’m asking for other terms like “trope” and “meme” which were new to me until I saw them in use here and have since learned what they mean and how to use them to convey an idea that I didn’t know the word for before.

I know there are other such terms and I regularly refer to acronym finders and Urban Dictionary and such places for meanings of words or phrases I just now saw in use here.

I’m just wondering if there are other Dopers who have learned of “new words” or “new concepts” here for the first time.

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**Author:** ![Lare](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/53a042/32.png) [@Lare](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lare)\
**Post date:** [October 6, 2010, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tropes-memes-and-other-stuff-you-learned-about-at-sdmb/556240/3 "2010-10-06T15:27:42Z")

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Uhhh, ‘Dopers’ to mean almost the diametric opposite of what I always used it for?

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**Author:** ![Ogre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ecb155/32.png) [@Ogre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ogre)\
**Post date:** [October 6, 2010, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tropes-memes-and-other-stuff-you-learned-about-at-sdmb/556240/4 "2010-10-06T15:28:39Z")

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I just learned about “Duckface” in the XKCD “map of the internet” thread.