Corporate buzzwords list
Every phrase across all Corpo Bingo decks, grouped by theme. Updated 2026-09-19.
Daily Standup
- Circle back
- Synergy
- Low-hanging fruit
- Move the needle
- Take this offline
- Boil the ocean
- Ping me
- Bandwidth
- Deep dive
- Drill down
- Touch base
- Quick win
- North star
- Table stakes
- Blocker
- Async
- Loop in
- Double-click
- Level set
- Parking lot
- Action item
- Net-net
- Ballpark
- Streamline
- Value-add
- Best practice
- Scalable
- Pivot
- Runway
- Alignment
- Cadence
- Leverage
- Holistic
- Ideate
- Bleeding edge
- Growth hacking
- KPI
- OKR
- Sprint
- Stakeholder
Video Call
- You're on mute
- Can everyone see my screen?
- Sorry go ahead
- I'll drop it in the chat
- You're frozen
- Is there a hard stop?
- Can you hear me?
- Let me share my screen
- Next slide please
- Can we take this offline?
- Who just joined?
- Let's give people a minute
- Everyone on mute please
- You're cutting out
- Sorry my dog
- Wrong window
- Stop sharing
- I'll follow up over email
- Can you repeat that?
- We lost you
- Let's park that
- I'll take that as a yes
- Recording has started
- Bear with me
- Technical difficulties
- Camera's not working
- Let's do intros
- No you go
- Waiting room
- Breakout rooms
- Raise your hand
- This could've been an email
- Thanks everyone bye
- Let me pull that up
- Any questions?
- You still there?
- Sorry background noise
- Let's keep it to 30
- Circle back
- Mute button
All-Hands
- Restructuring
- Rightsizing
- We're a family
- Impacted teammates
- Exciting new chapter
- Do more with less
- Streamlining
- Synergies
- Difficult decision
- Reduction in force
- Headwinds
- Belt-tightening
- Focus on the core
- Sunset the project
- Wind down
- Transition period
- Severance
- Well-positioned
- Thank you for your contributions
- The market has shifted
- Cost discipline
- Flatten the org
- Redundancies
- Let go
- Effective immediately
- Return your laptop
- Best of luck
- Path to profitability
- Extend the runway
- Right people on the bus
- Hard but necessary
- Doubling down
- Strategic realignment
- All-hands at 3
- Hold your questions
- Not a reflection of your work
- Efficiency
- Non-revenue-generating
- Tough quarter
- More with less
Startup Pitch
- Disrupting the space
- TAM
- Hockey stick
- Product-market fit
- Pre-revenue
- Marketplace for X
- Blitzscale
- First mover
- Network effects
- Moat
- 10x
- Move fast
- Fail fast
- MVP
- Pivot
- Seed round
- Series A
- Burn rate
- Unicorn
- Down round
- The deck
- Cap table
- Vesting
- Founder mode
- Ramen profitable
- Growth at all costs
- Land and expand
- Flywheel
- AI-powered
- Category-defining
- The next big thing
- Vision
- Bootstrap
- Angel round
- Scale
- Hustle
- Raising a round
- Traction
- Stealth mode
- Term sheet
Consultant
- It depends
- 2x2 matrix
- Boil the ocean
- Hypothesis-driven
- Client-ready
- Value creation
- MECE
- Deliverable
- Workstream
- Directionally correct
- Order of magnitude
- Sanity check
- Framework
- Peel the onion
- Socialize the idea
- Get buy-in
- Scope creep
- Out of scope
- SteerCo
- Working session
- Pre-read
- Straw man
- Slice and dice
- 80/20
- Gut check
- Blue-sky
- Greenfield
- Back of the envelope
- Swim lane
- RACI
- Read-out
- Playbook
- Operating model
- Cost takeout
- Rack and stack
- Deep dive
- Phase 2
- Levers
- Quick and dirty
- Actionable insights
Tech Support
- Turn it off and on
- Works on my machine
- Clear your cache
- Did you save it?
- Known issue
- Ticket closed
- PEBKAC
- Restart your computer
- Are you on the VPN?
- Reset your password
- Check your spam folder
- It's not plugged in
- Escalate to tier 2
- Send a screenshot
- What browser?
- Clear cookies
- Reinstall it
- Run as administrator
- Check for updates
- User error
- Have you rebooted?
- Ticket reopened
- Working as intended
- Cannot reproduce
- Log a ticket
- Server's down
- Password expired
- Two-factor
- Access denied
- Permissions issue
- Rolled back
- Patch Tuesday
- Have you tried a different browser?
- SLA breach
- Downtime
- Please try again
- Off and on again
- Read-only Friday
- Have you updated?
- It's a feature
Finance Bro
- EBITDA
- Burn rate
- Down round
- Term sheet
- Due diligence
- Liquidity event
- Dry powder
- Cap table
- Bull market
- Bear market
- Basis points
- Diamond hands
- To the moon
- Rug pull
- HODL
- Margin call
- Soft landing
- Rate hike
- The Fed
- Blue chip
- SPAC
- Valuation
- Bagholder
- Ticker
- Series A
- Unicorn
- Runway
- Vesting cliff
- Convertible note
- Short squeeze
- Exit strategy
- Yield curve
- Dead cat bounce
- Buy the dip
- Paper hands
- Golden parachute
- Poison pill
- Leveraged buyout
- Angel investor
- Market cap
Growth Marketing
- Impressions
- Engagement
- Top of funnel
- CTA
- A/B test
- Conversion
- Brand voice
- Go viral
- Influencer
- Retargeting
- Content is king
- Omnichannel
- Persona
- CPC
- SEO
- Above the fold
- Landing page
- Lead gen
- Drip campaign
- Clickbait
- UGC
- Evergreen
- Frictionless
- Value prop
- Bounce rate
- Click through
- Funnel stage
- Growth hack
- Viral loop
- Brand lift
- Ad spend
- Target audience
- Social proof
- Email blast
- Cold outreach
- Pain point
- Market fit
- Attribution model
- Organic reach
- Paid media
gen z
- no cap
- rizz
- slay
- bet
- it's giving
- ate
- mid
- sus
- delulu
- based
- cringe
- left on read
- main character
- understood the assignment
- living rent free
- touch grass
- vibe check
- lowkey
- situationship
- beige flag
- green flag
- gatekeep
- glow up
- ratio
- fr fr
- bussin
- skibidi
- girl dinner
- highkey
- icky
- slaps
- hits different
- chef's kiss
- big yikes
- i'm deceased
- core memory
- unhinged
- feral
- say less
- brainrot
OK Boomer
- Back in my day
- Firm handshake
- Kids these days
- The good old days
- Money doesn't grow on trees
- Print it out
- Fax it over
- Leave a voicemail
- Get off my lawn
- A hard day's work
- Nobody wants to work
- Avocado toast
- Participation trophy
- Reply all
- Rolodex
- Landline
- Balance your checkbook
- Early bird special
- Warranty
- The nightly news
- Rewind the tape
- Late fees
- Turn that music down
- Cursive
- Snail mail
- Phone book
- Channel surfing
- Encyclopedia
- Dial up modem
- VCR
- Cassette tape
- Paper map
- Typewriter
- Cash only
- Rotary phone
- Punch clock
- Pension plan
- Elbow grease
- Sunday best
- Whippersnapper
We're a Family Here
- We're a family here
- Work hard play hard
- We're all in this together
- Culture fit
- Bring your whole self
- Wear many hats
- It's like a startup
- Unlimited PTO
- Ping pong table
- Free snacks
- Mandatory fun
- Team building
- Rockstar
- Ninja
- Guru
- Hustle culture
- Rise and grind
- Go the extra mile
- Above and beyond
- Take ownership
- No bad ideas
- Fail forward
- Growth mindset
- Feedback is a gift
- Radical candor
- Flat hierarchy
- Open door policy
- We value your input
- Trust falls
- Team offsite
- One team one dream
- Like a second family
- Do it for the mission
- Change the world
- Make an impact
- Purpose-driven
- Always on
- Core values
- Lunch and learn
- Company retreat
OSHA Walkthrough
- No hard hat
- Frayed wire
- Blocked fire exit
- Wet floor, no sign
- Ladder on a chair
- Missing guardrail
- Forklift joyride
- Exposed rebar
- No safety goggles
- Overloaded outlet
- Propped fire door
- Top rung of the ladder
- No fall harness
- Unlabeled chemicals
- Expired extinguisher
- Trip hazard
- Wobbly scaffold
- No lockout tagout
- Sparks near the fuel
- Duct tape fix
- Zip tie repair
- Ignored the alarm
- Removed the guard
- Open manhole
- Overloaded pallet
- Daisy-chained cords
- Blocked eyewash
- Under a suspended load
- No steel toes
- Bypassed the sensor
- Frayed lifting sling
- No respirator
- Extension cord in a puddle
- Standing in the bucket
- Homemade scaffold
- Caution tape as decor
- Not load-bearing
- It was like that
- One guy spotting
- Hold my beer