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おんぶに抱っこに肩車は、乳幼児をおんぶ・抱っこ・肩車のいずれかの姿勢で運ぶ、日本の日常子育て慣行を指す言い回しとして知られている。語感の通り、単なる抱き方の列挙ではなく、地域の家事労働と育児労働の再配分を説明する“生活方程式”として用いられたとされる。

スッテン転び公妨（すってんころび こうぼう）は、公共の場で意図的に身体を崩し、通行を妨げることを指すとされる旧日本の疑似法社会用語である。主に路上条例の研究者たちの間で、転倒の“見込み角”と人流の“詰まり時間”を同時に扱う概念として知られている。

“Are You Ready For Ze New World Order?” is a late-20th-century urban slogan that became associated with a fictionalized cadre of “transition analysts” in New York City. The phrase was popularized by a pamphlet series and radio skits credited to the Metropolitan Broadcast Bureau, and it is now studied as a case study in conspiratorial media literacy. It has been repeatedly misquoted online, sometimes with the spelling “Ze,” which is considered part of its original branding.

Gatorpolis is a fictional “wetland city” concept first proposed as a resilience model in the early 20th century, later formalized into a planning doctrine used by several international river-basin commissions. In popular usage, Gatorpolis refers both to a type of amphibious municipal design and to the political network that popularized it across Louisiana, Florida, and parts of the Mississippi River corridor.

The Third Italian Empire is a term used by historians for a short-lived but culturally extensive state project that began in the interwar years and later expanded through maritime commerce, educational diplomacy, and a heavily bureaucratized “heritage administration.” It is generally said to have been initiated under the National Maritime Reconstruction Office (NMRO) in Rome and to have concluded after the 1951 “Continuity Accord” referendum.

Buzzword psychology is a field of applied behavioral science that studies how corporate and political jargon—such as synergy, transparency, and disruption—influences attention, memory, and compliance. The approach is widely known as “the semantic nudge,” after a mid-20th-century prototype method developed in London. It is also said to explain why some crowds feel “aligned” after hearing the right phrase, even when the policy details remain absent.