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excessive hyphenation

(n.) text in which words are brought together by hyphenation that are not supposed to be hyphenated. Usually a cover for bad spelling.

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by Kung-Fu Jesus May 4, 2004

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Hyphenated Americans

Immegrated American of a non-white race.

Says Prof. Bhagwati(an Indian American): I feel loyal to both the countries. One is the country of my origin and the other my destination. That is true of most people today. I think people are quite happy to be hyphenated Americans.

by Indigo February 24, 2005

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Walton Hyphen Market

Another term for Wal-Mart, used by those who detest it. The term Walton Hyphen Market has six letters in each word, thus forming the Mark of the Beast, 666. This is quite amusing to those who equate The Wal-Mart Corporation to Satan.

Chad: We should protest and get that new Walton Hyphen Market closed down.

Eric: Let's make picket signs, all we need is some cardboard, markers and boards... Hell, we can probably get all that at Wal-Mart and save some time.

Chad: Yeah, then later we can rip-off jokes from Seth MacFarlen and post them on teh interwebz.

by CraigChrist January 17, 2010


next line hyphen

A method to differentiate a dash placed at the end of a line to indicate that a word has been separated into two parts because it did not fit on a line, from a hyphen inserted between two or more words, such as "hands-on", "brother-in-law", or "state-of-the-art".

It is best to differentiate a dash placed at the end of a line to indicate that a word has been separated into two parts because it did not fit on a line, from a hyphen in a compound word such as "hands-on".

A "compound word" is comprised of two or more words and has a hyphen between each word.

If a line ends in "able-" and the next line says "bodied", readers automatically interpret "able", followed by "body", to mean "ablebodied". Most people do not remember that the correct way to write "ablebodied" is with a hyphen (able-bodied). I call this method to differentiate dashes from hyphens the "next line hyphen".

If the last word on a line of text says "for-", and the first word of the next line says "profit", the logical way to interpret the dash is as being a dash, though in reality, the writer means “for-profit”, not “forprofit”.

by but for February 24, 2018


Hyphenate

A man who has two last names. This is usually because he's a beta male simp who took his wife's last name in addition to his own.

Jeff: Did you hear that Michael added his wife's last name to his own?
Jake: Yeah? I'm not surprised that simp became a hyphenate.

by Kevin K Knox February 1, 2023


Hyphenate

A multifaceted person. A person who has many talents and tricks up their sleeve. Sometimes they can be taken as mysterious.

He can do that too? Wow that guy is such a hyphenate.

by schoolrockssomuch October 13, 2022


hyphen

A punctuation mark that is used to join words or other parts of words. And there are 2 alternates of this. It's called En dash and Em Dash.

J: I have a deep-fried mind!
L: What's that punctuation mark between deep-fried?
The word deep-fried is a example of a hyphen.

by zyseuxenrondym May 20, 2023