Wednesday, April 7, 2010

Slang word of the day: overshare

Today's slang word of the day is overshare. Click here to vote on usage, vulgarity, etc.

overshare

noun

  • the revealing of information that is overly intimate.
    The detailed description of her childbirth was a definite overshare.
    Lady Gaga took to Twitter Sunday to celebrate her 24th birthday seemingly naked... We love the overshare, but just wish she hadn't started calling herself Mother Monster, it makes staring at this naked pic awfully uncomfortable!

    -- "Lady Gaga's Topless Birthday Treat", E! Online, Lia Haberman, Mar 30 2010

verb

  • to reveal information that is overly intimate.
    Alcohol tends to make me overshare.
    It was an image that Mr. Hopper, who even described his former self as a "maniac" to Mr. Biskind, nurtured with acid trips, a gun fetish, a tendency to overshare with journalists and bouts of physical violence, culminating in his breaking the nose of his first wife, Brooke Hayward.

    -- "Madman, Perhaps; Survivor, Definitely", The New York Times, Manohola Dargis, April 7 2010

-- Walter (waltergr@aol.com)

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