3 definitions by GamersRightsAdvocate
1. A traditional work song aboard 17th-19th century sailing vessels. Often a call-and-response song, used to keep all the sailors' motions in time while performing tasks and spirits high.
2. After the early 2021 TikTok 'Sea Shanty' craze, the term began to be applied more broadly to acapella folk music with maritime themes evocative of traditional sea shanties (see: the Wellerman) and even more broadly to all folk music with maritime lyrics/themes. While these are not true shanties, the name has seemed to stick among zoomers.
2. After the early 2021 TikTok 'Sea Shanty' craze, the term began to be applied more broadly to acapella folk music with maritime themes evocative of traditional sea shanties (see: the Wellerman) and even more broadly to all folk music with maritime lyrics/themes. While these are not true shanties, the name has seemed to stick among zoomers.
Have you seen the sea shanty version of "Astronaut in the Ocean" that's been going around on TikTok?
by GamersRightsAdvocate June 4, 2021
A man, well known in the Edmonton Capital region of Alberta, Canada, who rollerblades around busy streets on the south side of Edmontmon without a shirt, singing and playing is guitar. He's Edmonton's local "Horseback Jesus." He's been noted to have some less-than-savoury opinions and has garnered a fair amount of controversy online. Similar to the North American Robin, spotting him is the first sign of spring in Edmonton.
Edmontonion: Spring is in the air! I just saw shirtless rollerblading guitar guy going down whyte!
Calgarian: You saw who??
Calgarian: You saw who??
by GamersRightsAdvocate June 4, 2021
adj. Gen Z slang meaning good, or catchy. Usually used to describe music and usually used as follows:
by GamersRightsAdvocate June 4, 2021