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Marking Territory 

When you click the "Like" button on every single thing on a person's Facebook profile page in order to give the impression to any outsiders visiting the page that you are in a close relationship with that person, and therefore have a certain degree of ownership over that person, much as a dog urinates all over a particular tree, marking it clearly with its own identity, in order to say to other dogs, "Back the fuck off, this tree is MINE."
So that no eager underclassmen would snatch his prized incoming freshman while he wasn't keeping an eye on her, insecure senior Connor quickly began marking territory all over beautiful, young Nina's Facebook profile, liking everything from statuses to profile pictures to Wall posts. When all the turned-on underclassmen went online to look her up after first seeing her at freshman orientation, they were quickly disappointed, thinking Connor might as well be her boyfriend.
Marking Territory by Metasystem September 16, 2011
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australian capital territory 

a complete waste of time and space, with no real purpose but to settle the dickheads from victoria and NSW down during the federation or some garbage. the place is 90% public servants and their families and hence is the most boring place in the world, so boring in fact that people between the age of 18 and 24 drive to sydney or melbourne due to the lack of social opportunities in canberra. everyone else wanks constantly
Man: hey mate, you wanna go to the ACT?
Man 2: the WHAT?
Man: the ACT! australian capital territory? capital of australia?
Man 2: is that a nightclub in sydney? cause ive never heard of it.
Man: never mind, lets just stay here.

Behringer Territory 

An audio engineer's worst nightmare. When something sound related goes so wrong you can only compare it to some of the worst equipment to exist. One could be

a) Lacking Resources
b) Lacking time
c) Assigned impossible tasks with the expectation they can be done, and fast
d) and any combination of the 3
Someone gave me a concert multitracked in mp3 and want it mixed down tomorrow. I'm in Behringer Territory!

During the middle of a mix, the G5 stopped working. The engineer had entered Behringer Territory.

Marking Your Territory 

When two people who are in love “Mark each other’s territories” by urinating on one another.
“Bro I peed on my girl last night.”

That’s dope dude, I’m proud of you for marking your territory.”

Dark Territory

1. An area without cell phone reception.
2. Under Siege 2.
Hold up G, I'm gonna hit dark territory, I'll phone you back.

Comes with the territory 

Something that is unpleasant, yet unescapeable while performing the task.
Why do people hate the police?


Comes with the territory.

marking your territory 

Some animals cover an area with their scent to warn any other animals that they will not tolerate any competition in the area. Typically by pissing and shitting on it.

The animal marking the territory is usually already feared. If it isn't, it may have to enforce the marking of territory by initiating conflict with any animals that violate his territory.

This is usually an expression to refer to warning off potential competition.
Jenny: My husband has all these attractive female co-workers? What should I do?

Friend: Get to marking your territory. Put your best photo on his office desk. Have him leave with a ring on his finger.