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melvin

nounnounattested in dialogue

A wedgie performed from in front of the victim.

noun

  1. 1

    slangA wedgie performed from in front of the victim.

Etymology

Used in the 1990s American TV show Salute Your Shorts and 1991 film Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey. Earlier origin unknown.

noun

  1. 1

    slangA boring or nerdy person; a dweeb.

    Dad! You can't leave me here! These guys are total Melvins!

Etymology

From the male given name Melvin.

Forms

plural
melvins
The neighbouring pagesAlphabetical order follows the rules of the language, not byte values: an accent decides only between two otherwise identical words, and Spanish files Ñ as a letter of its own.

Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).