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orphan-crushing machine

orphan-crushing machine noun: a notional machine representing a system or state of affairs that obviously facilitates suffering but is not acknowledged or examined, or for which no alternative is considered.

Noun

orphan-crushing machine (plural orphan-crushing machines)

  1. (Internet) A notional machine representing a system or state of affairs that obviously facilitates suffering but is not acknowledged or examined, or for which no alternative is considered.
    • "we live in a society", said the orphan-crushing machine operator2023 February 15, @lepetitereboot, Twitter (post), archived from the original on 17 May 2024
    • “ the orphan crushing machine isn’t the problem, it’s that people are using the orphan crushing machine wrong”2023 August 9, @DreadBirate, X (post), archived from the original on 17 May 2024

Forms of orphan-crushing machine

pluralorphan-crushing machines
alternative formorphan crushing machine

Origin of orphan-crushing machine

Referencing a Twitter post by @pookleblinky on September 25, 2020: Every heartwarming human interest story in america is like "he raised $20,000 to keep 200 orphans from being crushed in the orphan-crushing machine" and then never asks why an orphan-crushing machine exists or why you'd need to pay to prevent it from being used.

Questions about orphan-crushing machine

What does orphan-crushing machine mean?
Orphan-crushing machine means a notional machine representing a system or state of affairs that obviously facilitates suffering but is not acknowledged or examined, or for which no alternative is considered.
What part of speech is orphan-crushing machine?
Orphan-crushing machine is a noun.
What is the plural of orphan-crushing machine?
The plural of orphan-crushing machine is orphan-crushing machines.

Words near orphan-crushing machine in the dictionary

  1. orphan trains
  2. orphan work
  3. orphan works
  4. orphan's court
  5. orphan's courts
  6. orphan-crushing machine
  7. orphan-crushing machines
  8. orphanage
  9. orphanages
  10. orphanarium
  11. orphanariums

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