academic weapon

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. An exceptionally productive and diligent student. Internet,humorous
    — I became a true academic weapon by drinking lots of coffee, one of the few socially acceptable study drugs.
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see academic, weapon.
    — The academic community either dismisses the work as absurdly out-of-date (always an excellent defence against new ideas), or resorts to the more traditional and more effective academic weapon of silence.

词形变化

academic weapons plural

词源

The originator of the term is unclear, but it was popularized in a TikTok video posted on September 13, 2022 by Pennsylvania State University student Bradley Kraut: "Absolute academic weapon. Academic weapon." The video showed Kraut in the front row of a university lecture hall with the caption "ACADEMIC WEAPON. FIRST ROW 700 PERSON LECTURE 🤝". This started a TikTok trend of users calling themselves "academic weapons".
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