To think it's tip,not hack

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Just that really. Shopping hacks,life hack,cookery hacks. Enough already.

I love that diagram Somany

Another one is dupe. Back in the day when everything didn't make me feel about 112 years old and permanently furious, we just said 'copy'. As in 'this is a cheaper copy of that lipstick/perfume/it bag.

Why is a cheaper copy of anything suddenly a dupe?

I'm clearly far too old to have heard "dupe"

The reach out thing is placed just slightly below "touch base with him" in my fuck-off-ometer. It just sounds so grubby and lewd to me.

All the ones mentioned so far infuriate me. They make me want to hack off my ears (to use the word correctly). People saying "Can I get...." also drives me insane.

Hack instead of tip irritates me, because I write software and sometimes, especially if a release date is looming, I hack.

'A hack is a novel way of doing things, or a well thought out system.' ... no, it may be a novel way but it's absolutely not well-thought out. It's either quick and dirty, or tied together with string Heath Robinson coding - does the job, and often well enough that it gets left, but its usually a pain to maintain and especially bad if you inherit responsibility for hacked coding of former colleagues who've buggered off elsewhere.

But 'hack' doesn't have the same meaning as 'tip'. A 'hack' is an alteration of some sort.

Urgh! So much yes, I HATE it!

Dupe is short for duplicate. Dupe also has the connotation of pulling the wool over someone's face. I think it's therefore a perfectly cromulent expression for a knock-off.

I've never heard dupe.

The one which annoys me is talking about a pop of colour or insisting that colour combinations "make something pop". Like wearing a scarf to make your eyes pop. That doesn't sound attractive to me, I always imagine someone with their eyeballs straining out of their face.

What was wrong with making something "stand out" or "bring out the colour of"? :(

'Dupe' may also originate from the tech world, at least that was when I first heard it 10 years ago. IT bods used the term 'de-dupe' i.e. remove duplicate search results. I thought it was a quick way to get the message across at the time. Interesting 'dupe' is now entering mainstream.

'Can I get...' also sets off my inner-murderer.

On fleek is just teen slang. But shouldn't be used by adults as if it was real language.

"Reach out" is another annoying phrase when they simply mean "get in touch".

Yanbu.

Waiting on something, rather than for it.

DH I'm looking at you when you text me from the chip shop to say you are waiting on my chicken pie. If you were waiting on it you'd either be bringing it coffee or squishing it under foot.

I have never heard of 'on fleek' and I have two teenagers, but perhaps it is yet to reach our shores.

I was subjected to this though:

'Oh my bae, m so ovr crine about u'

I think after I worked out what the message really said, I might have burst out laughing, or possibly thrown a brick at something...

The phrase that gets me "It broke the internet"

How the hell do you break the internet? What bollocks.

Yes, and the term hack annoys me too.

I am a delight aren't I...

Agree with Crunchyside.

A hack is using something in a completely different way fromantic it's intended purpose.

Hackathon is completely fine.

I love you OP; I was starting to think I was the only one who's irritated by hack! I embarrassed myself at work by not knowing what dupe was and insisting it was an error But everyone at my office says reach out and I have to stop myself giggling every time - I love that Four Tops thing.

yabu, a hack is using something not for it's intended purpose.
so a tip can very well include a hack.
but yanbu about using it interchangable with tip.

Please someone tell me what on fleek actually means. I get that it's slang, but for what?? I can't make sense of it from the sentence and no one since has explained either.

(Love the reach out diagram by the way)

It means perfectly on-trend. I have no idea how but that's what it means.

Thanks Bertie.

I can live with "reach out". Not everyone I try to get in touch with actually responds. I haven't actually got in touch with them.

But hacks annoy me.

Yes! I'm not excited for your hack. I'm excited about your tip. Thank you.

YANBU.

There have always been tips that involved using something for other than it's intended purpose. My top tip, that I was told about 30 years ago long before "hack" muscled its way in, was to de-fluff cushions using rubber gloves.

"Hack" makes it sound like you're taking a badly-thought-out shortcut and will make a right mess of whatever you're doing. Plus half the time the so-called "hacks" are nothing new or startling or innovative and don't involve using things in new or unexpected ways.

Thanks for your explanation Errol. It makes me feel as though I understand where the word has appeared from, though it doesn't make me hate its misuse any less.

Its irksome. See also prepping and prep when related to food. Unless you are Gordon Ramsey you cook dinner or make tea. You do not "do food prep"