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Pirated word:
Zen
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I'll tell you what it's not: 1. A descriptive word for every time one happens to feel "spiritual" (and that word is a whole other story). 2. A descriptive term for every contradiction in circumstance or paradox in thought. 3. A cool word to absolve cutthroat business practices or justify silly hobbies. (e.g. kind of a zen thing, the zen of it, that's so zen) A school of Buddhism focused on meditation, intuition, and awareness, there's room for flexibility on its usage, but it's gone too far in the above cases.

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Pirated word:
Zug or Zuggish (Noun)
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Someone who like to go to zoo's. Example: he has been to the zoo 100 times this year, he is very ZUGGISH.

submitted by Kahoona

Pirated word:
zen
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Pirated word:
zero calories
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Equal(R) proudly states that it contains "0 Calories" when, in fact, as it stated on its old packets, it really contains "4 calories." The FDA changed its regualtions, probably as the result of industry lobbying, and now permits food companies to deceive consumers and say the product contains no calories when it actually contains calories, which pirates another phrase, "truth in advertising."

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