today's lucky 10,000
nounEtymology
Coined by American cartoonist, author and engineer Randall Munroe in 2012 in his webcomic xkcd, based on a calculation that given four million yearly births in the United States, about ten thousand people learn something that "everyone knows" every day.
Definitions
A theoretical set of 10,000 people who learn something considered "common knowledge" for…
A theoretical set of 10,000 people who learn something considered "common knowledge" for the first time.
- Don't make fun of people who don't know something; they're one of today's lucky 10,000!
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:today's lucky 10,000.
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for today's lucky 10,000. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA