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alt title(s): NSFW 
A stock Internet phrase, usually denoting a picture or video that you wouldn't want to show up when you are surfing the web at work. It's one thing to just look up the latest news or check your email. It's another to be looking at porn. Anything with nudity in it at all will usually often get labeled thus, on the off chance that a third observer simply thinks you might be looking at porn.
So called because if you are caught reading a page that is Not Safe For Work at work, you can get fired. For the more graphic NSFW pages, even having them in the hard drive or cache of a work computer can get you fired.
NSFW can be applied to vulgar or violent, as well as pornographic, content. It may also be applied if the link requires sound, as not a lot of people have headphones at work (or should be wearing headphones, depending on the job).
Just in case you are still not clear on what this means, go to this page when you have privacy. Then ask yourself, do you really want your boss in the room when you're looking at that stuff?
Also known as PROMOTIONS through Memetic Mutation: Posting non-worksafe material on image boards designated to be viewable "in restricted viewing environments" is known to elicit complaints from people who claim to have been fired for being caught on the spot, while others jokingly spun this off into posting about how they had just been promoted as a direct consequence of this.
It's well-known but rarely mentioned fact that if you're a guy, then almost anything that Tastes Like Diabetes will be not safe for work for you! Just try and browse through Kirby or Locoroco fanart at work and see the reactions of coworkers!
Incidentally, get back to work before your boss notices you slacking off by browsing this site.
This phrase can take many forms:
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