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Gatoring 

A dance popular in preppy college groups where one person yells "Gator" and all understanding males fall to the ground and wriggle around lIke an alligator.

Made famous by the college movie "Animal House."
"My LL Bean sweater got covered in mud when I was gatoring last night."
Gatoring by Ronald Kuby February 14, 2017
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Gatoring 

The act of submerging oneself in water (typically an Ocean, river or lake) so only your eyes and the top of your head is visible, much like an alligator. Commonly followed by stalking other people in the water and death rolling them.
Andrew – Let’s go to the beach and gator some girls
Adam – I love gatoring
Mark – I’m going to gator some boys
Gatoring by Ben Johns January 19, 2010

gattoring 

Sort of a dance in the late 1960s and early 1970s. It is when a person, man or woman, goes on the dance floor, usually lays down but not always. Once in "position", they go freaking nuts and move around a lot, often flailing legs and arms in all directions. It often requires being very drunk to do it well.
One of my fraternity brothers was the absolute best at "gattoring”. He went total bonkers!
gattoring by Panchoman December 7, 2006

Gatoring 

When a man is performing oral sex on a woman, she looks down and sees only his eyes peering back up at her. Similar to a gator hiding in the water.
Mike was going down on me last night and when I looked down he was gatoring at me. It was kind of creepy actually.
Gatoring by Long Dong Wang December 16, 2016

Grutting 

When you have sex with a fat male lorry driver from behind, but instead of actually inserting the penis into the anus, you just thrust your penis back and forth within his arse crack, using his sweaty butt cheeks to stimulate yourself.
"I'm not ready for anal just yet, would you mine if we had a go at grutting instead?" - Fat Lorry Driver

"I tottally grutted that guy at the truck stop last night, it was rough as fuck" - Guy who fucked Fat Lorry Driver
Grutting by Major_tom September 6, 2016

gatoring 

A very messy drinking game. In a bar or other watering hole, people pours their beers on the floor or a long table. Then, people take turns running up to the puddle and belly-flopping into it, to see how far along they can slide. Gatoring usualy starts whenever 'Johnny B Goode' comes on the jukebox.
Chuck Berry blared from the bar's jukebox; Jason yelled, "Gatoring!" and the entire party tipped their beers out onto the table.
gatoring by Meles Borealis July 29, 2008
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When someone uses AI to generate a large document, slide deck, or piece of code/software and tosses it over the fence for you to deal with.
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Brent: he just tossed me a slop grenade
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After we broke up, he was floxi to me.
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Respectfully 

Precedes or follows either a gratuitously disrespectful or honest remark, originated in New York City. Used in similar fashion to "no offense" or "to be honest," interchangeably.
Ya mans is wild buns, respectfully. Respectfully he's washed.

After school, The Modells on Jamaica Ave was active. Respectfully.
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You met me at a very Chinese time in my life

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Also used to describe establishments where alternative foods and products are sold, i.e. natural food stores.

Modified derivative of granola.
"I need more crunchy guys in my life. I'm so tired of dating preppy metrosexual assholes."

"I'm heading out to the crunchy store to pick up some fair trade chocolate and tea tree oil, do you need anything?"
crunchy by EBC July 11, 2007
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Susie wasn’t sure if her new Hinge match was a creep, so she assembled Galantir and they found out he used to post slurs on gaming forums.
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