LDAR

English

Noun

LDAR (uncountable)

1. Initialism of leak detection and repair.

Verb

LDAR (third-person singular simple present LDARs, present participle LDARing, simple past and past participle LDARed)

1. (incel slang) Initialism of lie down/lay down and rot (“to resign oneself to the hopelessness and unchangeability of one's circumstances, especially as a single, unattractive male”)..
   • 2020, Emily Price, "We live in a society: Violence and radicalization in the Internet Manosphere", thesis submitted to Arcadia University, page 18:

     It is an ideology that breeds despair, and, thus, perhaps the only solution one might find is to LDAR – or, failing that, seek retributionary violence.

   • 2020, Katrine Rummelhoff, "Incels and Misogyny; what’s so appealing about hatred?", thesis submitted to the University of Oslo, page 30:

     In “taking the blackpill” incels admit to themselves that “its over”, that no amount of effort will change the way they are perceived, and that they may as well give up and LDAR (lay down and rot).

   • 2021, Will Gerdes-McClain, "Differents: Essays About a Human (and Humans)", thesis submitted to Georgia College, page 104:

     However, even taking the blackpill and accepting this harsh reality, some of them are reluctant to LDAR (“Lay Down and Rot”), choosing instead to do what they can to try to ascend.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:LDAR.

Anagrams

• ARLD, LRAD, Lard, darl, lard