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turning off the faucets

abruptly ending financial contributions; to financially ostracize; the stopping of monetary flow. Often used as a serious warning in a quid pro quo situation.

phrase; idiom

The first recorded usage of the viral phrase 'turning off the faucets' was in 2024 by Nevin Shapiro during a Momentum Podcast episode. “I said Coach, if that kid don’t see the field I’m turning off the faucets”, for the purpose of clearly and definitively communicating to Larry Coker, that all funding to the Miami Hurricane football program will immediately come to a halt if he didn’t start then freshman Devin “Hurricane” Hester for subsequent games of the 2003 season. It’s an effective way for one to convey the gravity and seriousness of a situation involving money in a not so subtle yet sophisticated manner.
"If you don't meet the deadline, I'm turning off the faucets on this project."
“If you don’t have a 3.5 GPA by the end of the semester I’m turning off the faucets!”
“Bro she broke up with you as soon as you turned the faucets off, she's a gold digger!”
by NCAA_D1 June 13, 2024
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Fans turning

by telling everyone fans turning, you are blowing a phat vape cloud into the mic and telling people it is just your fan that is turning.
dude #1 - aye bro, my fans turning
dude #2 - we know you are blowing a phat cloud give it a rest
by hitlers daughter November 17, 2020
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Turning Red Movie

When you have gone mad.

Peoples mouths are huge.
crap this is weird, if you have watched the Turning Red movie you are going mad.
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Going to your place of work or entering a social setting and causing mayhem or generally making it an upleasent experience for everyone there. In extreme cases shooting the place up. A doom game refers to the video game where players are in first person shooter mode and shoot everything in sight.
Hey, my friend called and told me about this party but didn't invite me. We should go and turn that place into a doom game!

My boss just informed me that my vacation was denied and that I would actually be working this weekend. Im going to turn that place into a doom game
by bizzaroG December 20, 2010
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turned up

when you change a number on a dial from 0 to 1
Jeff: You should've turned up that dial
Bob: Fuck you
Jeff: Yeet
by YeetMaster123 December 25, 2018
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8 Turn

When you are on a two lane two way road and realize that you missed a left turn so you make a U turn and go diagonally to it. But then you realize its the wrong one and it’s actually ahead so you make another U turn. Then you move left to get on the correct side again.
Person 1: I had to make a 8 turn today and now I feel stupid.

Person 2: You feel stupid? I made a Z turn because I didn’t notice the side I was on was under construction. I didn’t even finish the turn after the diagonal… I had to get my car towed AND fixed!
by anonymous September 11, 2022
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I have turned Super Saiyan now.

Super Saiyan: A form in the Dragon Ball franchise. Used to announce that you have developed terminal cancer that you will not survive.
Person 1: Hey, I have turned Super Saiyan now.
Person 2: No way bro, I'm so sorry for you.
by mmmmahyes August 9, 2022
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