Switching stations

To switch stations simply means to go from one language to next during your interaction with another speaker who may also be bi or multilingual. People "switch stations" to add a bit of context on the subject matter or topic they're talking about so that the listener can fully comprehend the speaker. The speaker also does this as a way to relate to their listener(s) and make them feel connected. The phrase/term originally derived from the multitude of radio and TV stations, in South Africa, that are being broadcasted in different tongues/languages for specific listeners/viewers to read. So if you change from one station to the next, you would hear the new speaker on your telly or radio speak in a different tongue than the predecessor from the other station.

Speaker #1: Sawubona bhuti. Igama lami nguSphiwe and what is your name?

Speaker #2: Yebo, sawubona Sphiwe. I'm Trevor.

Speaker #1: Oh, okay. Ngiyajabula ukukwazi Trevor.

Speaker #2: 😅 Yebo. Nice to meet you too, Sphiwe.

(Example of two speakers switching stations between each other)

by SippySip June 29, 2020

Switch

A small device that quickly turns a Glock 9mm into a rapid fire automatic weapon.

Chiraqi soldiers don't need an Uzi when they've got a 3D printed switch on their Glock.

by Chiraqi_Taliban March 9, 2023

The Sister Switch (T.S.S)

The sister switch also know as the roomate switch because it applies to roomates and sisters. You find out your girlfriend’s sister/roomate is the more desireable one and you want to switch. How you do it is you suggest a threesome with the sister/roomate to your girlfriend and she is so appauled by the idea she kicks you out. She later vents about to the other and she is secretly flattered why giving fake sympathy. You wait until you girlfriend is at work and you call the sister/roomate. You get past the awkwardness then you ask her out.

There is an alternate scenario where your girlfriend is into it and the sister/roomate is too. In this case you either are very lucky or offered to aide in incest where you are expected to decline.

S6 EP12 of Seinfeld Jerry attempts The Sister Switch (T.S.S) with his girlfriends roomate and gets offered threesome and declines because he’s secretly gay.

by uvogin August 23, 2023

Queer-Switching

The practice of moving back and forth between two languages or between two dialects or registers of the same language at one time. This is more commonly known as code-switching and something people of color do to fit into a white society. But this specific word relates to switching the way a LGBTQIA+ person talks around other non LGBTQ people. For example using someone’s deadname and she/her prounouns around family members they aren’t out to. And then using the correct name and their real pronouns around others.

I was queer-switching when I used those pronouns for y

by ciudadesgemelos2026 April 14, 2022

Lane Switching Tango

When two people keep switching lanes in an attempt to not cause an accident. Typically caused by people who blindly merge.

Man, I was driving to work and this lady nearly hit me and made me do the lane switching tango.

by Rusty BallsR 69 October 29, 2021

switching buses

When one male genitalia is trusted into another male genitalia after months of stretching the inside of the penis.

man: "o gosh, I stayed up all night switching buses with Fred!"

by PEZ man5 May 1, 2011

Switch

Switching is a game played by at least two people where you put one finger inside your mouth and another in your ass, once the other person says "Switch!", you repeatedly switch your fingers, alternating between the ass and the mouth.

That game of Switch was really entertaining

by internacio January 26, 2024