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Comment by spondyl | Hacker News Reader

Apparently it's a real word!

Here's the excerpt from dictionary.com

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lubricious [loo-brish-uh s] adjective

    arousing or expressive of sexual desire; lustful; lecherous

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It kinda defeats the purpose of using the word if no one else understands what it means :)

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Sexualising battery replacement schemes needs to stop.

Rule 34 cannot be stopped.

It's also an alternate spelling for libricous, which dictionary.com defines as: adjective 1. (of a surface, coating, etc.) having an oily smoothness; slippery. 2. unstable; shifty; fleeting.

So "shifty" could be what they were going for, but my sense of the other two words in definition 2 suggests that it's not quite accurate to use that sense of shifty.

The intended word was probably "ludicrous".

I doubt it. He's using it to mean "slippery" or "shifty." It's not a great use of the word, but that's probably the intention.

Doesn't fit the context.

Of course it does.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Maybe ridiculous?

It's a real word, but one that doesn't seem to fit in context nearly as well as the similarly spelled "ludicrous."

Thank you guys. Seeing it twice made me think someone should mention how aroused batteries were making the OP, but I'm glad to know there are some fellow folks who have this covered ;)

> no one else understands

I understand fine.

/r/iamverysmart?

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