they live

Kick ass John Carpenter movie starring ROWDY Roddy Piper!!!!

Snatchfaced aliens are tricking humans by using a machine to make them look like us. But Piper (who is never given a name in the movie) is the only one who can see them with his sunglasses. No, really.

Supposed to be, according to Carpenter, an example of blind consumerism and republican economics

They Live is a great fucking movie.

they live by Jimmy Knuckles March 14, 2004

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They Live

A movie directed by John Carpenter starring Roddy Piper as a drifter who finds a pair of sunglasses allowing him to see aliens and subliminal messages. The movie has been known for having one of the longest fist fights in movie history,it was only supposed to last 20 seconds but Roddy Piper and Keith David kept fighting and Carpenter kept the entire scene.

It was said to have inspired Shepard Fairey's Obey stickers featuring Andre the Giant.

They Live is an attack on consumerist society and capitalism.

"They Live is Hella Sick!"

They Live by M.C. Mad October 28, 2006

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They Live

A documentary and wake up call about Dicyanin A glasses made by john carpenter and disguised as the coolest movie ever .

Bruce: Yo! Last week, I totally scored me a pair of those THEY LIVE glasses! I want a Divorce! You look like your head fell into the cheese dip! And I ain't getting a cent in alimony! Plus you've got a dick!

Caitlyn: hmm.,ok baby.Mamma don't like Tattle tales. And..I suggest you double check our PRENUP whilst wearing THEY LIVE shades. Btw you look as shitty to us.!

I thought THEY LIVE was a great film which social commentary about the duality of man. But then I watched THEY LIVE whilst wearing THEY LIVE glasses!

Bro: told you we are sooo fucked .

Dude: we are so fucked

They Live by Edith Mubauls January 11, 2021

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They won't let me live ...

There is an old saying in tough prisons and military training, they won't let me live ... and they won't let me die! It is based in self pity.

Geez, Rangers school, they won't let me live ... and they won't let me die!

They won't let me live ... by I, Wreckerrr October 6, 2020

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bang a you-ee

of Massachusetts orig. "to make a u-turn"

hey, we missed the bar, bang a you-ee

bang a you-ee by Pistolero Pierro May 4, 2008

Word of the Day on July 19, 2026

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Fleg

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

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Skeef

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

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