English Explanatory Dictionary

today's lucky 10,000

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A theoretical set of 10,000 people who learn something considered "common knowledge" for the first time.

Word forms

today's lucky 10,000 today's lucky ten thousand

Etymology

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.

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