japplications
Inflections plural japplications; rare singular japplication
Job applications, esp. considered collectively as the tedious, repetitive paperwork of seeking employment; the formal submissions one files to be considered for a position.
A single such submission; one entry in the broader campaign of seeking work.
“She fired off six japplications before lunch and heard back from none.”
— Professor Sendy
By extension, the wider ordeal or grind of job-hunting; the act of applying as a sustained activity.
“Another weekend lost to the japplications.”
— Professor Sendy
“The third comment suggested that job applications should now be called japplications, and it had 372,000 likes.”
— Professor Sendy
“If you all go out there and use that word, just be careful.”
— Professor Sendy
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job applications japplications
lend of jo(b) + applications, formed by overlaying the initial "j-" of "job" onto the standard plural "applications" so that a single syllable does the work of two words. A viewer-coinage surfaced and popularized by Professor Sendy, who presented it as the third comment on his "lowkirkentological lowstate" video, where it had drawn some 372,000 likes. Sendy notes, with scholarly caution, that the resulting onset "Jap-" coincides with a recognized ethnic slur, an unintended phonetic collision rather than a feature of the blend's meaning.
First Known Use 2026
Coinage credited to Professor Sendy.
Attested in the source utterance, @ProfessorSendy ↗
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