Polandball
nounEtymology From Poland + ball. Coined c. 2009.
1
Lifestyle Internet, Slang, Specifically Poland as a countryball.
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Synonym of countryball.
- One comic, in which Poland flies into space and stops Russia using Crimea as a means of ramming the United States, has shot to the top of the charts in the Polandball sub-forum on Reddit.2014 March 4, Emmet Ryan, “Polandball is Reddit's answer to Crimea crisis”, in The Daily Business Post, Businesspost.ie, retrieved 01 Nov 2014:
- This Polandball comic sums it up better.2014 September 11, Arunabh Saikia, “Why Some Calamities Are More Equal Than Others”, in The Newslaundry:
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- It’s also gotten attention from the Polish media. Gazeta Wyborcza reported on it (po polsku), and, on Culture.pl, Wojciech Oleksiak wrote an in-depth English analysis, including a presumably tongue-in-cheek guide to drawing a Polandball.2015 May 2, Steven Hoffman, “How Polandball can of taking over internets”, in Krakow Post: