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sidewndr46
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What is an ABCD?
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sbierwagen
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American-Born_Confused_Desi
princevegeta89
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Lol, I never knew there was a Wikipedia article for this slang acronym that we use all the time.
sbierwagen
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Wikipedia has been backfilling slang terms lately, in competition with urbandictionary and knowyourmeme. See
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheugy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OK_boomer
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%2BRatio
etc
smcin
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Hopefully only the legit subset of urbandictionary.
brianpan
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See also ABC:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American-born_Chinese
sidewndr46
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Oh wow, I've seen this without knowing it had a name.
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