Well, it used to be, anyway! As of 2023, if you could cross the street safely in California, this was no longer a ticketable offense
jaywalking
It's a type of party where you sleep over.
slumber
1999:
Haley Joel Osment,
Bruce Willis
The Sixth Sense
Dictionaries tell us that as a noun, it's a simpleton; as a hip-hop adjective, it's great or impressive
dope
An American social news website, news aggregator, forum and social media platform famous for it's Ask Me Anything feature.
Using a baseball bat or brass knuckles to inflict injury can lead to a charge of ADW, short for this
assault with a deadly weapon
"In the droptop ride with you, I feel like Scarface", says SZA on this tune, winner of a Grammy in 2024 for Best R&B Song
"Snooze"
2013, set in the 1840s & 1850s:
Chiwetel Ejiofor,
Michael Fassbender
12 Years a Slave
This word for a small elevator used to move food may cause ire if your food server hears it out of context
dumbwaiter
Carnegie Mellon professor Luis von Ahn was part of the team behind this app for learning a foreign language or 2
Duolingo
It's knowingly lying after taking the oath to tell the truth in court
perjury
This word for an afternoon nap derives from Latin for "sixth" because workers often rested about 6 hours after dawn
a siesta
1984:
Bill Murray,
Dan Aykroyd,
Sigourney Weaver
Ghostbusters
We're talking soil, so this word means a lump of earth, not someone who doesn't get it
a clod
Pay or get paid with this app whose name comes partly from the Latin for "to sell"
Venmo
Those Allstate ads with Dean Winters in this role are funny, but it's also the crime of maliciously injuring a person's body
Mayhem
A group of female deer, or to sleep lightly
does/doze
2014:
Michael Keaton,
Edward Norton,
Emma Stone
Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
This 8-letter word is made up of a prefix from Greek meaning "sharp" & another word that means someone of low intelligence
an oxymoron
You can upload your own music with this website whose logo is seen here
SoundCloud
It's also called false making & in Montana, can earn a 10-year stretch
forgery
The dormouse is so named not because it lives in doorways, but because it does this in winter
hibernate
2017:
Sally Hawkins,
Doug Jones, who probably got wet a lot
The Shape of Water
The name of this sleeveless jacket, popular in 16th century fashion, starts off offensively, but worry not

a jerkin
Amazon owns this livestreaming service that hosts streamers like Kai Cenat.
Twitch