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academic weapon

academic weapon noun: an exceptionally productive and diligent student.

Noun

academic weapon (plural academic weapons)

  1. (Internet, humorous) An exceptionally productive and diligent student.
    • I became a true academic weapon by drinking lots of coffee, one of the few socially acceptable study drugs.
    • In the space of only a year, the SEC has gone from becoming one of the most high-profile areas, featuring major political faces such as Joe Biden, Nicola Sturgeon, Barack Obama and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, to a place which will feature university students being major academic weapons.2022 October 19, Gregory Sharp, “Glasgow Uni exams happening in the same venue as COP26”, in The Tab, archived from the original on 04 Feb 2023
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see academic, weapon.
    • The academic community either dismisses the work as absurdly out-of-date (always an excellent defence against new ideas), or resorts to the more traditional and more effective academic weapon of silence.1988, Madsen Pirie, Micropolitics, Aldershot, Hampshire: Wildwood House, →ISBN, page 10

Examples of academic weapon in a sentence

  • Spring breakers are often targets of theft and violence because they turn their brains off from being academic weapons.2023 March 13, Cade Fisher, “How to do spring break the right way”, in The Spectator, archived from the original on 27 Mar 2023:
  • Lehman Hall turns you into the academic weapon that you were always meant to be!2023 May 5, Lucyanna F. Glenn, J.J. Moore, “How to: Spend Your BoardPlus Before Finals Ends”, in The Harvard Crimson, Cambridge, M.A....
  • My bike ride to school every morning puts me in the correct mindset to become an academic weapon, and every other student deserves to come to school with that mindset as well.2023 May 21, Lucas Salm-Rojo, “Student Voices: Better bike parking could remove roadblocks for student cyclists”, in The Seattle Times...

Forms of academic weapon

pluralacademic weapons

Origin of academic weapon

The originator of the term is unclear, but it was popularized in a TikTok video posted on September 13, 2022 by Pennsylvania State University student Bradley Kraut: "Absolute academic weapon. Academic weapon." The video showed Kraut in the front row of a university lecture hall with the caption "ACADEMIC WEAPON. FIRST ROW 700 PERSON LECTURE 🤝". This started a TikTok trend of users calling themselves "academic weapons".

Questions about academic weapon

What does academic weapon mean?
Academic weapon means an exceptionally productive and diligent student.
How do you use academic weapon in a sentence?
Spring breakers are often targets of theft and violence because they turn their brains off from being academic weapons.
What part of speech is academic weapon?
Academic weapon is a noun.
What is the plural of academic weapon?
The plural of academic weapon is academic weapons.

Words near academic weapon in the dictionary

  1. academic institutions
  2. academic quarter
  3. academic quarters
  4. academic question
  5. academic questions
  6. academic weapon
  7. academic weapons
  8. academic year
  9. academic years
  10. academical
  11. academical clerk

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