Talk:~

How about the use of a tilde as a placeholder for the headword in dictionary entries: something like "cow, n. a bovine animal. till the ~s come home, for a long time, indefinitely." Equinox ◑ 18:34, 29 October 2015 (UTC)
 * Adding this as translingual.__Gamren (talk) 17:56, 3 November 2015 (UTC)

Further Internet sense?
We have: "Indicating joy, elation, excitement, or a playful tone." But I often see it used in a sarcastic way, like air quotes, e.g. "and THAT’S why as a queer person i can’t stand macklemore. he preaches about ~gay rights~ (which is a shitty and biphobic/transphobic term to begin with)  he uses his support of ~*~The Gays~*~ to try and show what a great guy he is. how he’s better than all those other black rappers out there who are ~so homophobic~." Equinox ◑ 12:55, 4 December 2016 (UTC)
 * Created ~ ~. – Nixinova [&zwnj;T|C] 19:19, 12 December 2020 (UTC)