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academic weapon

noun

Etymology

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".

Definitions

  1. An exceptionally productive and diligent student.

    • 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

    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    • The academic community either dismisses the work as absurdly out-of-date (always an excellent defence against new ideas), or resorts to the more traditional and more effective academic weapon of silence.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA