Phrase guide
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Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
noun
A member of a community who is widely but privately known within that community for abusiveness or other harmful behavior that has not been addressed.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: idiomatic, neologism
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
History
Coined by blogger Cliff Pervocracy (a pseudonym) in 2012. In analogy to a stairway missing a step, with guests expected to overcome or bypass the obstacle rather than it being fixed.
