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today's lucky 10,000

today's lucky 10,000 noun: a theoretical set of 10,000 people who learn something considered "common knowledge" for the first time.

Noun

today's lucky 10,000 pl (plural only)

  1. (plural, plural-only) A theoretical set of 10,000 people who learn something considered "common knowledge" for the first time.
    • Don't make fun of people who don't know something; they're one of today's lucky 10,000!
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Forms of today's lucky 10,000

alternative formtoday's lucky ten thousand

Origin of today's lucky 10,000

Coined by American cartoonist, author and engineer Randall Munroe in 2012 in his webcomic xkcd, based on a calculation that given four million yearly births in the United States, about ten thousand people learn something that "everyone knows" every day.

Questions about today's lucky 10,000

What does today's lucky 10,000 mean?
Today's lucky 10,000 means a theoretical set of 10,000 people who learn something considered "common knowledge" for the first time.
What part of speech is today's lucky 10,000?
Today's lucky 10,000 is a noun.

Words near today's lucky 10,000 in the dictionary

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  8. todaye
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  10. todays
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