Definitions
Wiktionary
- n. Any of a series of Soviet unmanned space satellites, especially the first one in 1957.
Etymologies
- From Russian спутник (sputnik, "fellow traveller"). (Wiktionary)
Examples
“militarization of space" then you might have as well called sputnik militarization of space.”
“When CNN’s Jeff Greenfield assured the crowd, “I haven’t planted a skutnik here,” I stopped him: I had heard of a sputnik, the Russian word for the first Soviet satellite, but what was a skutnik?”
Simon & Schuster: The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time
“Someone discovered that the code word was "sputnik" and when applied to each line gives us the decode.”
“sputnik" "If Akshay removes his wig" "Hello! this is Akki's REAL hair … get ur fats right before commenting ...”
“He declared this to be the nation's sputnik moment.”
The Huffington Post: David Coates: Fact and Fiction in the "State of the Union" Debate
“And yes, I highly recommend it and think it's well worth your time and money and that you will find a lot of stuff to chuckle over, sputnik jokes aside.”
Robot reviews: Humbug | Robot 6 @ Comic Book Resources – Covering Comic Book News and Entertainment
“To quote my sadly anonymous podcaster: "the future is not something to be afraid of; it is after all a sputnik moment.”
The Huffington Post: Jason Derr: Seeing The Future In 3-D: Incarnation And The Sputnik Moment
“The sputnik moment is a moment of incarnation and intention.”
The Huffington Post: Jason Derr: Seeing The Future In 3-D: Incarnation And The Sputnik Moment
“If we are honest then we can say the world is pregnant with sputnik moments.”
The Huffington Post: Jason Derr: Seeing The Future In 3-D: Incarnation And The Sputnik Moment
“We are the incarnation of the possibilities and potentialities of the future -- the sputnik moment -- made alive in the energy of our lives played out across our lifetime and the lives and events we influence and initiate.”
The Huffington Post: Jason Derr: Seeing The Future In 3-D: Incarnation And The Sputnik Moment
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘sputnik’.
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nik words
nik as an ending
and beatnik wins over wordnik by
one hit
1993 W. Safire Safire's New Polit. Dict. 498 There were no-goodniks and faroutniks, beatniks, and sicknicks.beatnik, chetnik, chinovnik, computernik, dvornik, kibbutznik, kolkhoznik, neatnik, noisenik, nudnik, peacenik, refusenik and 7 more...
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WF - niks
The rare occurrences of the suffix "-nik"
refusenik, peacenik, beatnik, draftnik, kibbutznik, nogoodnik, neatnik, nudnik, ispravnik, nachalnik, computernik, folknik and 12 more...
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In the "nik" of time
Well, once again I've been beaten to another list idea (see "-nik" by hap_e_wordnik). You might as well come on in and add kinnikinnick, Dubrovnik, or even minikin, if you like - I'll be out search...
sputnik, wordnik, Wordnik, beatnik, knacknik, refusenik, Nik da Grik, Arrondissement of..., chutzpanik, Dolni Dabnik, folknik, Kamnik and 10 more...
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Galls
As in, the growths; not to be confused with /lists/the-gall.
knopper, oak marble, aleppo, crown, oak apple, pineapple, rose bedeguar, oak artichoke, cola-nut, red-pea, red currant, red-wart and 20 more...
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Tuesday words
just the next words that come along
nasality, transignification, lapsarian, disciple, slanguage, atwitter, avast, ahoy, asleep, awake, hymnody, glissade and 573 more...
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NASA
A place for NASA-related stuff, from Mercury, Gemini, Apollo, Skylab, etc.
faithful shepard, lunar module, command service m..., trajectory, moon shot, apollo, mercury, gemini, skylab, viking, velcro, tang and 103 more...
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sputnik
canoodle, span, hasten, discombobulate, sputnik, clod, encrusted, spit-shine, zeitgeist, landslide, laid, cherish and 350 more...
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fbharjo's Words
jumelle, kef, kenspeckle, lautitious, essentic, pilpulistic, impavid, cicurant, clou, chrysostomic, miasma, teleology and 1625 more...
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(Medical) Marijuana Strains
Names of various "medicinal" Cannabis strains, harvested from various sources.
grape ape, grape wreck, trainwreck, black domina, sweet wreck, cal-p, jack herer, purple princess, northern lights #5, amnesia haze, c5 haze, cambodian haze and 685 more...
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Slavic Languages Spelling Bee List
need to learn these words!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
gulag, robot, troika, siberian, kishke, sable, polka, sputnik, babushka, gopak, trepak, baba and 40 more...
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Scrabble
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Lisavalentine's Words
Tweets
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