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

The Switch

This is when Joe Jacobs plans to switch from the Marcantels to the Wetherbeas in a swift manner. Procreating with each of these fine Lumen Christi's. Althoguh this is dreamt about, the only man to pull this off is the one and only Carl A. Gerstacker of Albion College. The man, the myth, the legend. "I was drunk"

"I pulled the switcharoo"

by Switcher February 24, 2009

Boner Switch

Any new discovery that excites you.
Like "turned me on" was used in a non-sexual context.

Bro, you have got to check out this new band! They totally tripped my boner switch!

by Pat Lark February 10, 2023

switch lobby

The lobby you get when you load up fortnite and queue with your friend who is playing on switch. The opps are basically paralyzed in the hands and use their toes to play.

These lobbies leave you questioning if you're playing in a lobby full of AI or 6 year olds.

Sweet, David is on. We can dog some kids in a switch lobby!

*drops a 20 kill game* God bless you David, you always put us in switch lobbies against these poverty players.

Bro, these switch lobbies have me feeling like I'm facing dhruv in every fight...

by grizloy March 7, 2024

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

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

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