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gone rogue 

a state of defiance that ever so slowly creeps in after the tears and getting burned one time too many. when an abused person finally has their epiphany and realizes they are just everybody’s punching bag, a generally good person who always gives too much, loves too much, always first to apologize just rolls over and still everyone just keeps taking and using and asking for even more. when they’ve finally gotten mad and start tripping the system, misbehaving, being bad and breaking the rules for maybe the first time ever, they’ve gone rogue. funniest when it’s really out of character for someone and justified.

A great example is the Joker. Everyone gets it and actually roots for him even though he is bad, because they know what he came out of and he is finally fighting back. Going rogue against a corrupt system that always keeps you down is something people can get behind. It means going bad, turning to the dark side, going from a straight A student to someone who smokes pot and skips school.
boss: where is Amanda today? The meeting is in ten minutes and we need her slides for the presentation!
Amanda: -walks in very late with shades on snapping gum and with a Denny’s breakfast to go- I’ve got your damn slides and you’ll get them on USB at the meeting
co-worker: damn Amanda’s gone rogue!
secretary: did someone leave this photocopy of their ass in the printer on purpose because I’m offended.
gone rogue by williet hughnot January 26, 2020

He's gone rogue 

A statement made in relation to a male companion in the case they do something rather outlandish or informal. Also can be used the same as 'dogging the boys'.
Donno: Look at Micko that spiffy cunt, he just went and got a ripstart in Thailand.
Lenno: Fuckin 'ell, he's gone rogue!
He's gone rogue by tubendo November 3, 2016

gone like Roger Daltrey's shirt 

A way of emphasizing just how gone something is.
Typically used when something disappears with no trace of where it went whatsoever.

Derived from the Who's lead vocalist, Roger Daltrey, and how in the later years of the band, his shirt would just...poof. It's gone.
"Moooom, my tablet pen is gone!"
"No it's not."
"Yes it is! It's gone like...like...it's gone like Roger Daltrey's shirt!"

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