colloquial

In the “digging” she stitches together the physical work of excavation, the ‘60s and ‘70s colloquial meaning of “dig” as to “understand” and, lastly, its nod to DJ/crate-digging culture that remixes and reimagines.

Celebrities are all too familiar with the world of deepfakes, the colloquial term for artificial intelligence-generated videos that depict actors and other Hollywood talent falsely doing or saying things that they never agreed to.

Alamak, a colloquial exclamation used to convey surprise or outrage in Singapore and Malaysia, also made the list.

“The critiques have really focused on her leadership and not the City Council and not the supes,” Hancock said, using a colloquial term for the county Board of Supervisors.

For some, that starts with addressing the colloquial term for background actors — “extras” — which some bristle at.