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Pac-Man effect
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English
Etymology
In reference to the arcade game Pac-Man (1980), where the player character can warp through a tunnel from one side of the screen to the other.
Proper noun
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en informal The flat-earth belief that someone attempting to go over the edge of the flat Earth would teleport to the other side.
en Flat earth
en eponyms