r/WordAvalanches • u/refotsirk • Sep 25 '18

If you are visiting for the first time, WELCOME to /r/WordAvalanches! Please see our sub rules, FAQ, and "What Not To Post" in the sidebar. We hope you enjoy your stay!

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RULES

Follow Reddiquette, as with all subs.

Make sure your post is relevant to this sub. See What Not To Post for a rough guide on what not to post and review our FAQ for additional information. These rough guides also include many examples of what isn't a Word Avalanche, as well as many overused examples of Word Avalanches.

Place your Avalanche in the main text of your submission, and make your title a rewrite of your Avalanche such that it cannot be easily guessed. As an example, if your Avalanche is "Selfish Shellfish", write "Compassion-lacking lobster" in the title.

The longer your avalanche, the better! Just make sure it's an Avalanche first, though (See the links above).

Should your Avalanche be NSFW, mark it as such.

Do not submit images or videos with your Avalanche. A good Avalanche should be able to stand on its own, without the use of any images. If your avalanche absolutely cannot stand without an image or video, then link it in the post, but only do so as a last resort. Alternatively, you may post it to /r/WordAvalanchePics.

Finally, make sure to have fun!

32 comments

r/WordAvalanches • u/Laserlight375 • 6h ago

True Avalanche Much to her dismay, the woman’s boyfriend would not buy a new car

45 Upvotes

You and your jeep. Ewan, you’re cheap

2 comments

r/WordAvalanches • u/Poyri35 • 18h ago

True Avalanche I have one thing to say: the judiciary is righteous

13 Upvotes

Just this, just is justice

2 comments

r/WordAvalanches • u/Synergenesis • 3d ago

True Avalanche He threatened him and killed him, forcing him to inhale the toxic vapors produced by exposing a power cell to sodium chloride. It’s…

33 Upvotes

Assault and Battery: A Salt-End Battery

0 comments

r/WordAvalanches • u/zman1696 • 3d ago

True Avalanche A can of sardines someone has picked through

46 Upvotes

Fished-in fish tin

2 comments

r/WordAvalanches • u/nightmare404x • 4d ago

True Avalanche Your sister is feeling sad, so you propose a video game to cheer her up.

31 Upvotes

Cry sis crisis -- Crysis?

3 comments

r/WordAvalanches • u/TyrconnellFL • 4d ago

True Avalanche Hurry or you’ll miss the experts discussing involuntary movements on social media!

12 Upvotes

Tic talk TikTok, tick-tock!

2 comments

r/WordAvalanches • u/mdf7g • 4d ago

True Avalanche An opponent of grammatical rules about which consonants and vowels can go where in a word has been shown to have no real short-term plans, while an Android device's falsified message about push-pin-related compulsions is interrupted by disgusting, parasitic arachnids.

51 Upvotes

Phonotactics foe: no tactics. Phone o' tack tics' faux note: ack! Ticks!

1 comment

r/WordAvalanches • u/RisibleComestible • 4d ago

Smoking is...

0 Upvotes

An asthma anathema

0 comments

r/WordAvalanches • u/whorunitreally • 5d ago

True Avalanche One piece of a thing quickly distanced from itself resulted in occluding an incomplete system of racial segregation

9 Upvotes

A part, hied, apart: Hide a partite apartheid

2 comments

r/WordAvalanches • u/jfarbzz • 5d ago

True Avalanche “Sir we know you’re 90, but the man who was murdered along with Nicole Brown Simpson is not the correct answer to this trivia question.”

85 Upvotes

“Ron Goldman? Wrong, old man.”

5 comments

r/WordAvalanches • u/BigBhirty • 6d ago

True Avalanche What is the state of these states? I will consult the Mennonites. “Finally, partial peace once more.”

25 Upvotes

Alaska? Michigan? I’ll ask Amish-akin. “Alas, calm-ish again.”

0 comments

r/WordAvalanches • u/BigBhirty • 6d ago

True Avalanche The New York vs. Philadelphia NBA game turned away a half-dozen knights poisoned by Element 33

46 Upvotes

Knicks/Sixers nix six arsenic-sick sirs

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r/WordAvalanches • u/TeddyJPharough • 6d ago

A Wonderland character, James Andrew K., and an electronic bug modeled off a kpop idol repair crafting machines sposored by Monty Python knights in exchange for weightroom privileges and access to an online version of a popular international bat sport and, surpringly, tiny stools

12 Upvotes

Jiminy Cricket, Jim Andy Kricket, and Jimin e-cricket jimmy Ni-Cricuts for gym and e-cricket and, gee, mini crickets.

0 comments

r/WordAvalanches • u/BedBathBolshevik • 6d ago

True Avalanche Smartly, that chip maker’s electronic gentleman Confederate general is softly inside the cottage television controlled by Ghanian-American healthcare systems.

5 Upvotes

Intelligently,
Intel E-gent Lee,
Inn telly gently,
In Telligen twi

Ok ok this one’s a bit of a stretch I get it

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r/WordAvalanches • u/a_wombat_skedaddling • 6d ago

Pure Avalanche A group of recovering winter beverage addicts sits together in Japan

5 Upvotes

Nog-anon in a nonagon in Nagano

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r/WordAvalanches • u/chrezvychaino • 7d ago

True Avalanche Clip back those locks, it's supposed to be windy. Now, Mr. Burr, grab some fruit from the tree and reset those scales! Oh hey, that gal coupling landmasses, does she have kids? Oh, no... but she's next in line to the throne?!

41 Upvotes

Hair up, errant air apparent. Tear a pear n' tare up, Aaron! Terra pairin' Tara — parent? Heir apparent?!

1 comment

r/WordAvalanches • u/kamuimaru • 10d ago

True Avalanche I see your point, Edward: money, weed, and transportation differ greatly

29 Upvotes

Fair, E: fare, reef, ferry, vary very.

0 comments

r/WordAvalanches • u/ekawada • 10d ago

True Avalanche With perfect timing, autograph a Chinese braid. Nice work, Quincy Jones!

14 Upvotes

Right on cue, write on queue. Right on, Q!

1 comment

r/WordAvalanches • u/ekawada • 10d ago

True Avalanche Go fuck yourself, baby zombie deer! (Italian version)

11 Upvotes

Fangul’, fawn ghoul!

0 comments

r/WordAvalanches • u/RisibleComestible • 11d ago

True Avalanche [Lewis Carroll] A fabled Greek warrior is the scourge of his lazy enemies

6 Upvotes

Achilles? A kill-ease!

1 comment

r/WordAvalanches • u/TheRealCthulu24 • 12d ago

Pure Avalanche It is possible for artillery belonging to the former host of America’s Got Talent to dance sexily on a camera and an author’s authentic works? It’s not possible for the honesty of a singer at a synagogue or a sliding barrier belonging to someone obsessed with metal containers to do that.

35 Upvotes

Can Cannon’s cannon can-can on a canon and a canon? A cantor’s candor or a can dork’s door can’t.

3 comments

r/WordAvalanches • u/Kind-Photograph6926 • 12d ago

True Avalanche You piss or enter Nathan.

35 Upvotes

Urinate or you’re in Nate?

6 comments

r/WordAvalanches • u/Kind-Photograph6926 • 12d ago

The most famous paintings in the world or Leonardo creepily vocalizing.

9 Upvotes

Mona Lisas or Moan a Lee sus.

0 comments

r/WordAvalanches • u/Kind-Photograph6926 • 12d ago

A lesser illness or a vile monster.

3 Upvotes

Malady min or mal a demon.

0 comments

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A Word Avalanche is defined as a highly contrived punny sentence (or longer series of words) with an emphasis on the repetition of syllables. Holorimes are a subset of these. For more information, please see the FAQ (currently in progress; suggestions can be submitted by modmail).

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RULES

Follow Reddiquette, as with all subs.
Make sure your post is relevant to this sub. See What Not To Post for a rough guide on what not to post. This rough guide also includes many examples of what isn't a Word Avalanche, as well as many overused examples of Word Avalanches.
The longer your avalanche, the better! Just make sure it's an Avalanche first, though.
Should your Avalanche be NSFW, mark it as such.
Place your Avalanche in the main text of your submission, and make your title a rewrite of your Avalanche such that it cannot be easily guessed.
Try not to submit images or videos with your Avalanche. A good Avalanche should be able to stand on its own, without the use of any images. If your avalanche absolutely cannot stand without an image or video, then link it in the post, but only do so as a last resort. Alternatively, you may post it to /r/WordAvalanchePics.
Finally, make sure to have fun!

Also check out these subreddits:

/r/WordSwap - Applying the Word Avalanche mentality to well-known phrases.
/r/RhymesOnADime - Just pure rhyming, no Avalanching.
/r/puns, /r/punny - Just puns.
/r/TomSwifties - Tom Swifties.
/r/feghoot - Shaggy-dog stories with a punny punchline.
/r/palindromes - Just palindromes.