I think strafing has something to do with combat aircraft (a strafing run, probably fly by shooting?), but where I know it from, is early shooters (haven’t played any in over a decade, not sure if that word is still used), strafing was moving sideways.

edit: my guess for the actual meaning was close-ish:

> Strafing is the military practice of attacking ground targets from low-flying aircraft using aircraft-mounted automatic weapons

> The word is an adaptation of German strafen, to punish, specifically from the humorous adaptation of the German anti-British slogan Gott strafe England (May God punish England), dating back to World War I.

-- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strafing

And I might as well post the gaming page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strafing_(video_games)

Strafe a pretty commonly used word when dealing with first/third person shooter video games. Probably self explanatory why more guys know it.

Strafe in shooter games is a movement relative to the direction you're facing without turning.

So on a standard two-stick controller layout your left stick is strafe and your right is aim.

I expect more people have played halo than flown planes.

Re “shemale”: I wonder what other slurs they included in the data set. I have a hard time believing “shemale” is the only slur with gender polarization.

"Shemale" is such a great punchline.

I was reading these thinking "Oh fuck, I know all the male words and none of the female ones, I'll never pass as a woman with a vocabulary like this".

At the bottom, "Shemale". Tada! That's why I know all the male words! I'm a sh**ale!