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- Race Fetish: Racial fetishism
- Race Lift: Racebendingnote
- Racial Face Blindness: Cross-race effect
- Rags to Riches: [4]*
- Raijū: Raijū*
- Rail Enthusiast: Railfan
- Rain Dance: Rainmaking (ritual)
- Raised by Wolves: Feral child
- Ramscoop: Bussard ramjet
- Random Encounters: Random encounter
- Rape and Revenge: Rape and revenge film
- Rape as Backstory: Effects and aftermath of rape
- "Rashomon"-Style: Rashomon effect
- Rat King: [5]*
- Ray Gun: [6]*
- Raygun Gothic: [7]*
- Rays from Heaven: Crepuscular rays
- Reactionless Drive: [8]*
- Reaction Shot: [9]*
- Reading Tea Leaves: Tasseography
- Read the Freaking Manual: RTFM
- Realism: [10]*
- Really Gets Around: Slut
- Real-Person Fic: Real person fiction
- Realpolitik: [11]*
- Real Time: [12]*
- Reclusive Artist: List of recluses
- Record Producer: [13]*
- Recurring Dreams: [14]*
- Recursion: [15]*
- Recursive Translation: Round-trip translation
- Red Baron: Epithet
- Red Herring: [16]*
- Red Light District: [17]*
- Red Pill, Blue Pill: [18]*
- Red Scare: [19]*
- Redshirt: [20]*
- Red String of Fate: [21]*
- Reduced to Ratburgers: Famine food
- Regal Ruff: Ruff (clothing)
- Reincarnation: [22]*
- Remake: [23]*
- Remaster: [24]*
- Remittance Man: [25]*
- Renaissance Fair: [26]*
- Renaissance Man: Polymath
- Reptilian Conspiracy: [27]*
- Research, Inc.: Research & Development
- Retcon: Retroactive continuity
- Reset Button: Reset button technique
- Retro Gaming: [28]*
- Retronym: [29]*
- Reveille: [30]*
- Revenant Zombie: Revenant in fiction
- Revenge: [31]*
- Reverse Whodunnit: Inverted detective story
- Reverse Psychology: [32]*
- Rice Burner: [33]*
- Rich Language, Poor Language: Diglossia
- Rickroll: [34]*
- Righting Great Wrongs: [35] *
- Ring of Power: Magic ring
- Roadkill for Dinner: Roadkill cuisine
- Roadside Surgery: Pre-hospital Emergency Surgery
- The Roast: [36]*
- Robinsonade: [37]*
- Robot Dog: List of robotic dogs
- Robot Soldier: Military robot
- Robot War: Existential risk from artificial general intelligence
- Roc Birds: Roc (mythology)
- Rockers Smash Guitars: Instrument destruction
- Rock is Authentic, Pop is Shallow: Rockism and poptimism
- Rock Opera: [38]*
- Rock–Paper–Scissors: [39]*
- Roger Rabbit Effect: Live-action animated film
- Rogue Planet: [40]*
- Roman à Clef: [41]*
- Rōnin: [42]*
- Room Escape Game: Escape Room
- Rope Bridge: Simple suspension bridge
- Roswell That Ends Well: Roswell UFO incident
- Rotoscoping: [43]*
- Royal Inbreeding: Royal intermarriage
- Royal "We": [44]*
- Rube Goldberg Device: Rube Goldberg machine
- Rule of Three: [45]*
- Rule 34: [46]*
- Rules Lawyer: [47]*
- The Runaway: [48]*
- Running Gag: [49]*
- Ruptured Appendix: Appendicitis
- Ruritania: [50]*, also Ruritanian romance for the related genre
- Russian Bear: [51]*
- Russian Humour: [52]*
- Russian Reversal: [53]*
- Russian Roulette: [54]*
- Ryokan Inn: [55]*
S
- Sacred Cow: [56]*
- Sacred Language: [57] *
- Sad Clown: Sad clown paradox
- Safecracking: [58]*
- Safe, Sane, and Consensual: [59]*
- Safe Word: Safeword
- Salaryman: [60]*
- Salem Is Witch Country: Salem witch trials (also see Cultural depictions of the Salem witch trials)
- Salt the Earth: [61]*
- Sampling: [62]*
- Samurai: [63]*
- Sand Bridge at Low Tide: Tidal island
- Santa Claus: [64]*
- Sassy Black Woman: Angry Black Woman
- Satan: [65]*
- Satanic Panic: Satanic Ritual Abuse *
- Satire: [66]*
- Savage Wolves: Wolf attack
- Saw a Woman in Half: [67]*
- Sawed-Off Shotgun: [68]*
- Scam Religion: Religious fraud
- Scandalgate: List of "-gate" scandals
- Scanlation: [69]*
- The Scapegoat: Scapegoating
- Scare Quotes: [70]*
- Scary Black Man: Criminal stereotype of African Americans
- Scatting: Scatting* and Non-lexible vocables in music
- School Festival: Cultural festival (Japan)
- School Nurse: School nursing
- School Swimsuit: Sukumizu
- Science Fantasy: [71]*
- Science Is Wrong: Antiscience
- Scooter-Riding Mod: Mod (subculture)
- Scullery Maid: [72]*
- Scunthorpe Problem: [73]*
- Screwed by the Lawyers: Tragedy of the anticommons
- The Scrooge: Miser
- Sdrawkcab Name: Ananym
- Sea Mine: Naval mine
- Sea Monster: [74]*
- Secret Handshake: [75]*
- Secret History: [76]*
- Secret Identity: [77]*
- Secret Ingredient: [78]*
- Secret Level: Level (video gaming): Secret levels
- Secret Police: [79]*
- Secret Santa: [80]*
- Secret Societies: Secret society
- Security Blanket: Comfort object
- Seinen: Seinen manga
- Self-Deprecation: [81]*
- Self-Destruct Mechanism: Self-destruct
- Self-Fulfilling Prophecy: [82]*
- Self-Harm: [83]*
- Self-Immolation: [84]*
- Self-Made Man: [85]*
- Self-Surgery: [86]*
- Selkies and Wereseals: Selkie
- Sell-Out: Selling out
- Sensitivity Training: [87]*
- Sensory Overload: [88]*
- Sentry Gun: [89]*
- Separated by a Common Language: Comparison of American and British English
- Seppuku: [90]*
- Sequential Art: [91]*
- Serial Killer: [92]*
- Serial Rapist: [93]*
- Serkis Folk: Motion-capture acting
- Seven Deadly Sins: [94]*
- Seven Dirty Words: [95]*
- Seven Heavenly Virtues: Seven virtues
- Sewer Gator [96]
- Sexbot: Sex robot
- Sex Is Evil: Antisexualism, Erotophobia,Genophobia
- Sex Is Good: Sex-positive movement, Erotophilia
- Sex Is Violence: Autassassinophilia
- Sexless Marriage: [97]*
- Sexposition: [98]*
- Sex Sells: Sex in advertising
- Sexy Sweater Girl: [99]*
- "Shaggy Dog" Story: [100]*
- Shaped Like Itself: Tautology (rhetoric)
- Shapeshifting: [101]*
- Shared Universe: [102]*
- Shark Tunnel: [103]*
- Shinigami: [104]*
- Shipping: [105]*
- Ship-to-Ship Combat: Shipping discourse
- Shock Collar: [106]*
- Shock Jock: [107]*
- Shock Site: [108]*
- Shoe Shine, Mister?: Shoeshiner
- Shōjo: Shojo manga
- Shōnen: Shonen manga
- Shoot the Messenger: Shooting the Messenger
- Shotgun Wedding: [109]*
- Shout-Out: Allusion, Intertextuality
- Show, Don't Tell: [110]*
- The Show Must Go On: [111]*
- Show Within a Show: Story within a story
- Shrines and Temples: Shinto shrine and Buddhist temples in Japan
- Shrinking Violet: Shyness
- Shrink Ray: [112]*
- Shrunken Head: [113]*
- Shy Bladder: Paruresis
- Siamese Twin Songs: Segue
- Sibling Murder: Fratricide and Sororicide
- Sibling Rivalry: [114]*
- Sidekick: [115]*
- Siege Engines: [116]*
- Signature Song: [117]*
- Silent Treatment: [118] *
- Silicon-Based Life: Hypothetical types of biochemistry: Silicon biochemistry
- Singer-Songwriter: [119]*
- The Singularity: Technological singularity
- Sinister Shiv: Shiv (weapon)
- Sinister Surveillance: Mass surveillance
- Sins of Our Fathers: Ancestral sin
- Sir Swears-a-Lot: Coprolalia
- Situational Sexuality: Situational sexual behavior
- Sizable Semitic Nose: Jewish nose
- Skeleton Key: [120]*
- Skinny Dipping: Nude swimming
- Skin Walker: [121]*
- Skull Cups: [122]*
- Sky Pirate: Air pirate
- Slash Fic: Slash fiction
- Slave Collar: Collar (BDSM)
- Slapstick: [123]*
- Sleeper Hit: [124]*
- Sleeper Starship: [125]
- Sleep Paralysis Creature: Night Hag
- Sleepwalking: [126]*
- Slipping a Mickey: [127]
- Slumber Party: Sleepover
- Slut-Shaming: [128]*
- Smart Gun: [129]*
- Smart House: Home automation
- Smash Cut: [130]*
- Smoke Out: Smoke screen
- Smoking Gun: [131]*
- Smug Snake: Dunning–Kruger effect
- Snake Charmer: Snake charming
- Snake Pit: [132]*
- Snipe Hunt: [133]*
- Sniper Rifle: [134]*
- Snowball Fight: [135]*
- Snowclone: [136]*
- Soap Opera Rapid Aging Syndrome: [137]*
- Soap Punishment: Washing out mouth with soap
- The Social Darwinist: Social Darwinism
- Social Deduction Game: [138] *
- Socialite: [139]*
- The Sociopath: Antisocial personality disorder, Psychopathy
- Sock Puppet: [140]*
- Solar-Powered Magnifying Glass: Burning glass
- Solar Punk: [141]*
- Solar Sail: [142]*
- Some of My Best Friends Are X: [143]
- Sonic Stunner: Sonic weapon
- Sound-Effect Bleep: Bleep censor
- Sound Test: [144]*
- Southern Belle: [145]*
- Space Elevator: Space elevators in fiction
- Space Marine: [146]*
- Space Pirates: [147]*
- Spaceship Slingshot Stunt: Gravity assist
- Space Station: [148]*
- Spear Carrier: [149]*
- Speculative Fiction LGBT: LGBT themes in speculative fiction, List of LGBT-themed speculative fictionnote
- Speech Bubbles: Speech balloon, whose forerunner was the speech scroll
- Speech Impediment: Speech disorder
- Speedrun: [150]*
- Spelling Bee: [151]*
- Spiders Are Scary: Arachnophobia
- Spinning Paper: Spinning newspaper
- Spinoff Babies: List of younger and junior versions of cartoon characters
- Spin the Bottle: [152]*
- Spirit Cultivation Genre: Xianxia (genre)
- Spiritual Successor: [153]*
- Spit Take: [154]*
- Splash of Color: [155]*
- Split Personality: Dissociative identity disorder
- Split Screen: [156]*
- Spoiler: [157]*
- Spoiled Brat: Spoiled child
- Spontaneous Generation: [158]*
- Spontaneous Human Combustion: [159]*
- Spooky Photographs: Spirit photography
- Spoon Bending: [160]*
- Spree Killer: [161]*
- Spring-Heeled Jack: [162]*
- Sprite Comic: [163]*
- Spy Cam: Hidden camera
- Spy Satellites: Reconnaissance satellite
- Spy Ship: [164]*
- Square-Cube Law: [165]*
- Squib: [166]*
- Squick: Disgust
- Squiggle Vision: [167]*
- The Squire: [168]*
- Stable Time Loop: Predestination paradox
- Staff of Authority: Staff of office
- Stage Mom: Stage mother
- Stage Names: [169]*
- Stag Party: Bachelor party
- Stanford Prison Experiment: [170]*
- Starcrossed Lovers: Star-crossed
- Staring Contest: Staring: Staring contests
- Star of Bethlehem: [171]*
- The Stateless: Statelessness
- Starving Artist: [172]*
- The Stateless: Statelessness
- Static Stun Gun: Electroshock weapon
- Statute of Limitations: [173]* note
- Stealing from the Till: Embezzlement
- Stealth Insult: Insult: Backhanded compliments
- Steampunk: [174]*
- Steel Mill: [175]*
- Sticky Bomb: [176]*
- Sticky Fingers: Kleptomania
- The Stinger: Post-credits scene
- Stingy Jack: [177]*
- Stink Bomb: [178]*
- Stock Character: [179]*
- Stock Footage: [180]*
- Stock Ness Monster: Loch Ness Monster
- Stock Sound Effects: [181]*
- Stockholm Syndrome: [182]*
- The Stoic: Stoicism
- Stop Being Stereotypical: Respectability politics
- Stop Motion: [183]*
- Story Arc: [184]*
- Storyboard: [185]*
- Straight Gay: Straight-acting
- Straight Man: [186] *
- Strategy Guide: [187]*
- Straw Feminist: Straw feminism and Feminazi
- Street Performer: Street performance
- Streisand Effect: [188]*
- Strictly Formula: Formula fiction
- Stringy-Haired Ghost Girl: Onryō
- Strip Poker: [189]*
- Studio Audience: [190]*
- Stuffed into the Fridge: Women in Refrigerators Syndrome
- Stuffy Old Songs About the Buttocks: Category:Songs about buttocks
- Stunt Casting: [191]*
- Stunt Double: [192]*
- Sturgeon's Law: [193]*
- Subbing Versus Dubbing: The "Global Use" section of the article on dubbing features a lengthy overview of subbing vs. dubbing preferences by country.
- Subspace Ansible: [194]
- Subspace or Hyperspace: Hyperspace (science fiction)
- Subtext: [195]*
- Subverted Rhyme Every Occasion: Subverted rhyme
- Succubi and Incubi: Succubus and Incubus
- Suffer the Slings: Sling (weapon)
- Suicide Attack: [196] *
- Suicide by Cop: [197] *
- Suicide Pact: [198]*
- Sunday Strip: [199]*
- Sunk Cost Fallacy: Escalation of commitment
- Super Breeding Program: Eugenics
- Supercouple: [200]*
- Super-Deformed: Chibi (slang)
- Superhero: [201]*
- Super Registration Act: Registration acts (comics)
- Super-Soldier: [202]*
- Superstitious Sailors: Sailors' superstitions
- Supervillain: [203]*
- Surprise Incest: Accidental incest
- Surprise Pregnancy: Unintended pregnancy
- Surreal Humor: [204]*
- Survivor Guilt: [205]*
- SWAT Team: SWAT
- The Swear Jar: [206]*
- Sweeps Week Lesbian Kiss: Lesbian kiss episode
- Switched at Birth: Babies switched at birth
- Sword and Sorcery: [207]*
- Sword Cane: Swordstick
- Sympathetic Magic: [208]*
- Symploce: [209]*
- Synchro-Vox: [210]*
T
- Tableau: Tableau vivant
- Tagline: [211]*
- Taken for Granite: Petrifaction in mythology and fiction
- Take Over the World: World domination
- The Talk: The birds and the bees
- Talking Animal: Talking animals in fiction
- Talking in Your Sleep: Somniloquy
- Talk to the Hand: [212]*
- Tall, Dark, and Handsome: [213]*
- Tall Poppy Syndrome: [214]*
- Tan Lines: [215]*
- Taps: [216]*
- Tastes Like Chicken: [217]*
- Tattooed Crook: Criminal tattoo
- The Taxi: Taxicab
- Tears of Blood: Haemolacria
- The Teaser: [218]*
- Techno Babble: [219]*
- Technophobia: [220]*
- Tech Tree: Technology tree
- Teen Idol: [221]*
- Teen Pregnancy: Teenage pregnancy
- The Teetotaler: Teetotalism
- Telenovela: [222] *
- Telepathy: [223]*
- Teleportation: [224]*
- Temporal Paradox: [225]*
- Tengu: [226]*
- Terraform: Terraforming
- Terrified of Germs: Mysophobia
- Teru-Teru Bōzu: [227]*
- Testosterone Poisoning: [228]*
- "Test Your Strength" Game: High striker and Strength tester machine
- The Tetris Effect: [229]*
- Text Parser: [230]*
- That Russian Squat Dance: Hopak
- That Was Objectionable: Objection (law) and List of objections
- Theme Tune: Theme music
- The Theocracy: [231]*
- Theremin: [232]*
- Theseus' Ship Paradox: Ship of Theseus
- Think of the Children!: [233]*
- Third Eye: [234]*
- Third-Person Person: Illeism
- This Is a Work of Fiction: All persons fictitious disclaimer
- Thought-Aversion Failure: Ironic process theory
- Thoughtcrime: [235]*
- 1000 Origami Cranes: One thousand origami cranes
- Thousand-Yard Stare: [236] *
- Threatening Shark: Shark attack (see also Sharks in popular culture)
- Three Laws-Compliant: Three Laws of Robotics
- The Three Wise Men: Biblical Magi
- Throw Down the Bomblet: Grenade
- Throw It In!: Ad-lib
- Thunderbolt Iron: Meteoric iron
- Tickle Torture: [237]*
- Tidally Locked Planet: Tidal locking
- Tiebreaker Round: [238]*
- Tightrope Walking: [239]*
- Time Bomb: [240]*
- Time Capsule: [241]*
- Time Dilation: [242]*
- Time Out: [243]*
- Time Skip: [244]*
- Time Travel: [245]*
- Tin-Can Telephone: [246]*
- Tinfoil Hat: [247]*
- Title Card: Intertitle
- Title Drop: Title drop
- Title Sequence: [248]*
- To Hell and Back: Katabasis
- Too Smart for Strangers: Stranger danger
- To Serve Man: Man-eater
- Toilet Humour: [249]*
- Token Minority: Tokenism
- Tokyo Tower: [250] *
- Tomboy: [251]*
- Tongue Twister: [252]*
- Tontine: [253]*
- Toon Physics: Cartoon physics
- Tooth Fairy: [254]*
- Torture Cellar: Torture chamber
- Torture Is Ineffective: Effectiveness of torture for interrogation
- Tough Love: [255]*
- The Tourney: Tournament (medieval)
- Towers of Hanoi: Tower of Hanoi
- Tractor Beam: [256]*
- Tragic Hero: [257]*
- Transhuman: Transhumanism
- Translation Convention: [258]*
- Tranquillizer Dart: [259]
- Trap Door: [260]*
- Trapped in Another World: Isekai
- Trash Talk: [261]*
- Trashy Trailer Home Trailer trash
- Trauma Button: Trauma trigger
- Treasure Map: [262]*
- Treehouse of Fun: Tree house
- Trekkie: [263]*
- The Triads and the Tongs: Triad (organized crime), Tong (organization), List of Chinese criminal organizations
- The Trickster: [264]*
- Trick-Taking Card Game: Trick-taking game
- Trojan Horse: [265]*
- Troll: [266]*
- Trope: [267]*
- Trophy Wife: [268]*
- Troubled Fetal Position: Fetal position
- Truck Driver's Gear Change: Modulation (music)
- True-Breeding Hybrid: Hybrid speciation
- True Meaning of Christmas: [269]*
- "Truman Show" Plot: Truman Show delusion
- Truth Serums: [270]*
- Tsuchigumo and Jorogumo: [271] and [272]*
- Tsuchinoko: [273]*
- Tsundere: [274]*
- Tuckerization: [275]*
- Tulpa: [276]*
- The Tunguska Event: Tunguska event in popular culture
- Turing Test: [277]*
- Turn Coat: [278]*
- Turtle Island: Aspidochelone
- The Twelve Principles of Animation: 12 basic principles of animation
- 25th Amendment: Twenty-fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution
- Twincest: Incest between twins
- Twinking: [279]*
- Twitchy Eye: Blepharospasm
- Typhoid Mary: Asymptomatic carrier note
- Tzadikim Nistarim: [280]*
U
- Übermensch: [281]*
- "Ugly American" Stereotype: Ugly American (pejorative)
- Uncanny Valley: [282]*
- Uncommon Time: List of musical works in unusual time signatures
- Unconventional Formatting: Ergodic literature
- The Undead: Undead
- Underground City: [283]*
- Understatement: [284]*
- Unicorn: [285]*
- Unlockable Content: Unlockable (gaming)
- Unobtainium: [286]*
- Un-person: Damnatio memoriae
- Unreliable Narrator: [287]*
- Unstoppable Force Meets Immovable Object: Irresistible force paradox
- Unusual Dysphemism: [[Dysphemism
- Uplifted Animal: Uplift (science fiction)
- Up Through the Ranks: Mustang (military officer)
- Urban Fantasy: [288]*
- Urban Legends: [289]*
- Urban Warfare: [290]*
- U.S. Marshal: United States Marshals Service
- Uterine Replicator: Artificial uterus
- Utopia: [291]*
V
- Vagina Dentata: [292]*
- Valkyries: [293]*
- Valley Girl: [294]*
- Vanity License Plate: Vanity plate
- Vaporware: [295]*
- Variable Mix: Adaptive music
- Vengeful Ghost: [296]*
- Ventriloquism: [297]*
- Vertigo Effect: Dolly zoom
- Very Special Episode: [298]*
- The Vicar: [299]*
- Video-Game Lives: Life (gaming)
- Video Game Remake: [300]*
- Video Phone: [301]*
- Viewers Like You: Underwriting spot
- Vigilante Man: Vigilante
- Villains: Villain
- Virtual Ghost: Digital immortality
- Vision Quest: [302]*
- Visual Pun: [303]*
- Voiceover Translation: [304]*
- The Von Trope Family: Von and Van
- Voodoo Doll: [305]*
- V-Sign: [306]*
- Vulgar Humor: Off-color humor
W
- Wainscot Society: Wainscot (fiction)
- Walk and Talk: [307]*
- Walk the Plank: Walking the plank
- Walk This Way: [308]*
- Walkthrough: Video game walkthrough
- Wall Pin of Love: Kabedon
- Wandering Culture: Nomad
- "Wanted!" Poster: [309]*
- Wardrobe Malfunction: [310]*
- War Elephants: [311]*
- War God: List of war deities
- The Warlord: Warlord
- The War on Straw: Straw man
- War Refugees: Refugee and Asylum seeker
- Warp Zone: Warp (gaming)
- "Wash Me" Graffiti: Reverse graffiti
- Water Torture: [312]*
- We ARE Struggling Together: Narcissism of small differences
- Weapon of Mass Destruction: [313]*
- Weasel Words: [314]*
- Webisode: [315]*
- Wedgie: [316]*
- We Have Reserves: Human wave attack
- The Weird Sisters: Three Witches
- Weird West: [317]*
- Wendigo: [318]*
- The Western: Western (genre)
- Western Zodiac: Sun sign astrology
- Wet Sari Scene: [319]*
- What Measure Is a Non-Cute?: Bambi effect
- What Measure Is a Non-Human?: Anthropocentrism
- When the Planets Align: Syzygy (astronomy)
- White Anglo-Saxon Protestant: [320]*
- White-Collar Crime: [321]*
- White Collar Worker: [322]*
- White Flag: [323]*
- White Guilt: [324]*
- White Magic: [325]*
- White Man's Burden: Civilizing mission (in historic settings), White savior (in narrative context)
- White Stallion: White horse (mythology)
- Whoopee Cushion: [326]*
- Who Shot JFK?: John F. Kennedy assassination conspiracy theories
- Who Watches the Watchmen?: Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
- Who Will Bell the Cat?: Belling the cat
- Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: Phobia
- Why We Are Bummed Communism Fell: Communist nostalgia (also nostalgia for the Soviet Union and nostalgia for East Germany)
- Wick: What links here
- The Wicked Stage: Antitheatricality
- Wide-Eyed Idealist: Ideal (ethics)
- Wiki Walk: Wiki rabbit hole
- Wild Child: Feral child
- The Wild Hunt: [327]*
- William Telling: Shooting an apple off one's child's head
- Willing Suspension of Disbelief: Suspension of disbelief
- Will-o'-the-Wisp: [328]*
- Windmill Scenery: Windmill
- Winged Unicorn: [329]*
- Winter Warfare: [330]*
- Witch Doctor: [331]*
- With Us or Against Us: You're either with us, or against us
- Witness Protection: [332]*
- Women Are Delicate: Femininity
- Word, Schmord!: Shm-reduplication
- Workaholic: [333]*
- Worldbuilding: [334]*
- World Tree: [335]*
- World War III: [336]*
- The Worm That Walks: Colony (biology) and Superorganism
- Would Be Rude to Say "Genocide": Genocide denial and genocide justification
- Wound Licking: [337]*
- Wound That Will Not Heal: Dolorous Stroke
- Writer's Block: [338]*
- Writing Lines: [339] *
- Wuxia: [340]*
X
Y
- Yakuza: [343]*
- Yamato Nadeshiko: [344]*
- Yaoi Fangirl: Fujoshi
- Yaoi Genre: [345]*
- The Yardies: Yardie
- Yellowface: Portrayal of East Asians in Hollywood
- Yellow Peril: [346]*
- You Are Grounded!: Grounding (discipline technique)
- You Can Leave Your Hat On: Striptease
- You Can't Get Ye Flask: Syntax guessing
- Youkai: [347]*
- Youngest Child Wins: Youngest son
- Your Mom: Maternal insult
- Yowies and Bunyips and Drop Bears, Oh My: Yowie, Bunyip, and Drop bear
- Yubitsume: [348]*
- Yuki-onna: [349]*
- Yuri Genre: [350]*
Z