Please tell me if I’m the asshole here. But holy crap. I know mod’s get a bad wrap rap but wow do the mods seem WAY more petty and petulant here.

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    1 month ago

    wrap
    “rap” as in: RAP sheet -> Record of Arrests and Prosecutions

    Inb4 banned for misspelling.

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      1 month ago

      That looks like a backronym to me

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        1 month ago

        Yeah. It’s from the same place where “beating the rap” was coined, and it’s from the mid-1900s. It’s definitely a backronym.