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feierabendbier 

What Germans do after work: they grab a beer and hang out with friends. They also drink beers before work (like for breakfast) but those beers they just call "bier" and not "feierabendbier".
"Yo Holger, want to grab a feierabendbier tonight?" - "Ja Dirk, das ist wunderbar."
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Feierabend 

Feierabend (German, compound noun)

The glorious moment you slam shut your laptop, hang up your hard hat or toss down your tools and officially declare “I’m off the clock, baby!”

Constitutes of the words Feier (=celebration, party) and Abend (=Evening) and is often accompanied by the traditional Feierabendbier (= beer) or Feierabendbierchen (=small beer) aka happy hour beer.

Synonyms: knock‐off time, quitting time, TGIF on a daily loop.
Schönen Feierabend! (=Wishing a co-worker to enjoy there evening when they log off)

"Yo Dirk, want to go for a Feierabendbier tonight?" - "Ja Markus, auf geht's (=let's go)."
Feierabend by red-giant12 May 14, 2025

Fierabend 

Fierabend, German word. Mashup of Feierabend (end of the work day) and Bier (beer). Like "beer o'clock".
Hans, endlich Fierabend! Hohl mal Schnaps!
(Hans, beer o'clock! Get some booze!)
Fierabend by p47j43 January 15, 2018

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