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FOBFA: Fresh Off the Boat From America.

(1) A proud but ridiculously ignorant American that visits or moves to an East Asian country with no intentions of speaking anything except English.

(2) An American living in an East Asian country who refuses to learn anything outside of American culture.
(1) Li: Ni hao ma?(how are you?)

Bob: Sorry, I don't want the teriyaki chicken sample today.

Li: Ah, you such a FOBFA!

(2) Ming Ming: Happy New Year Friend!

Bob: Damn, you need a new calendar. The ball dropped a month ago. Rascal Flats stole the show.

Ming Ming: You numba one FOBFA in all China!
FOBFA by Anarchomusic August 8, 2009
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Think "Perfect Stranger" meets "Coming in America", fobface is said of someone totally unaccustomed to American idioms and American way of life.
My roommate is from Cyprus, we call him fobface because he has no idea of what's going on.
fobface by Class of 1964 February 17, 2003
Someone who is the best at literally everything, especially saving money and mental clarity
AL is a fobag with all of his overtime he could buy something nice
Fobag by Junior4now November 13, 2016

bang a you-ee 

of Massachusetts orig. "to make a u-turn"
hey, we missed the bar, bang a you-ee
Word of the Day on July 19, 2026
The word 'flag' as pronounced by people with thick Belfast accents. The term is a perfect encapsulation of the disproportionate and overblown reaction to the removal of the Union Jack (as in 'de fleg') from above City Hall in Belfast. Where previously it had flown for 365 days per year, it is now flown on 17 designated days of the year - in line with many other British cities.

The event caused a portion of the Protestant community ('fleggers') to make international pricks of themselves as they proceeded to wreck the fucking place, claiming it was another erosion of a 'British' identity they perceive to have been under attack since the horrifying spectre of equality reared its head in Northern Ireland.

The word 'fleg' - and indeed 'fleggers' - fittingly describes a section of humanity unconcerned with knowledge, reality or the vagaries of the English language. Like America's tea-baggers they are ruled by instinct, fear and paranoia with a side dish of rampant bigotry and startling ignorance of the world around them.
"Wat de fuck like! The taigs got de fleg took down! Let's wreck de fuckin place! No surrender!"

"De fleg has been took down! Before ye know it there'll be a united Ireland! Attack Short Strand! God Save The Queen!"
Fleg by OnionFleg August 9, 2013
Word of the Day on July 18, 2026
To take something small, that doesn't quite qualify as a theft. Probably from the Danish "skæv" or the Dutch "scheef", both of which are pronounced similarly, meaning "askew, or not quite right'. To change an item's ownership without permission, but only something small and of little worth.
"I skeefed an apple off the neighbor's tree." "I skeefed some chips outta your bag when you looked away." "Don't skeef my chair when I go to the bathroom."
Skeef by kachinaflonk July 16, 2026
Word of the Day on July 17, 2026