Maintain Your Homeostasis

"Maintain Your Homeostasis" is one of many of Mr. Okezie's catch-phrases. It generally means to take four deep breaths, while taking your time of course, to the effect of reducing one's cortisol levels. He says this almost all the time....and it works.

Hey man, your messing up the vibe. It's a vibe....bruh. Maintain Your Homeostasis.

by phantomofthe0pera November 24, 2019

Maintain down

A Nigerian slang phrase popularized by American artist and creator DDG. A variation of the Nigerian term “maintain,” (meaning to stay composed or carry yourself properly) blended with “calm down.”

All meaning to compose yourself, relax, stay cool, and keep your demeanor in check—especially in situations where emotions, ego, or reactions could escalate

Usage-
Often said as advice or a warning to someone who is doing too much, getting too excited, angry, or losing composure.

• “Bro, maintain down before you say something crazy.”
• “It’s not that deep, just maintain down.”

by Dexxxta007 January 4, 2026

Maintain down

A Nigerian slang phrase popularized by American artist and creator DDG. A variation of the Nigerian term “maintain,” (meaning to stay composed or carry yourself properly), blended with another Nigerian slang “calm down.”

All coming together to mean compose yourself, relax, stay cool, and keep your demeanor in check—especially in situations where emotions, ego, or reactions could escalate.

Usage:
Often said as advice or a warning to someone who is doing too much, getting too excited, angry, or losing composure.

“ Bro, maintain down before you say something crazy.”

“It’s not that deep, just maintain down.”

by Dexxxta007 January 4, 2026

e-maintain

We’ve always conditioned men to maintain women—this isn’t something new. What’s different is this “maintenance” has become completely electronic for some men, and the men doing the “maintaining” aren’t seeing or even making an effort to see the women they are connecting with. Men are just texting, emailing or using social media to give the impression they are checking in or they care—in order to maintain these women.

For these men, the definition of “maintenance” has shifted from traditional strategies like sending gifts and engaging in the occasional dinner, drinks or movie, to this incredibly convenient and empty form of communication based on text messages, emails, and social media: e-maintaining. And it is a mode of communication that isn’t even based in reality.

Coined by Yashar Ali

Since their last night together, Michael kept in touch with Karen on a regular basis. Every couple of weeks, Karen received a text or email from him. The messages always started out the same way, “What’s up?”

Karen would always fill him in on her life, and Michael would always respond with the same short answer, “That’s cool.”

After one or two text messages, Michael would usually disappear. But a couple of weeks later, he would show up again. Sometimes their conversations would go deeper—ten minutes of texting back and forth. Karen would find hope in those longer texting sessions, thinking that he was finally engaging with her.

A couple times he even texted, “We should have dinner soon.”

But every time Karen agreed to dinner, Michael would tell her about his really busy month at work, delaying the need to schedule a real date. Then, he would never follow up.

This faux-relationship wasn’t going anywhere and Karen was left feeling confused and frustrated about Michael’s intentions.

But these sporadic texts weren’t even about sex. Michael never even proposed any sort of rendezvous. And Karen’s motivation was certainly not friendship. “I have enough friends,” she said.

“He’s not even trying to sleep with me, what’s the point of all this?”

I told her, “Karen you’re being e-maintained”

by Caramello October 11, 2013

just maintain

To hold composure, even in the stickiest of situations; to be a juggernaut with grace 100 percent of the time...every time. It may be used at times when someone may be feeling doubt, fear, anger, sadness, nervousness, agitated, shame, or like a pussy; generally among friends. It is the only appropriate remedy when the speaker finds their friend or acquaintance at their lowest state of being.

I opened the door one day to find my best friend soaking wet and crying, and he tells me that he has just lost his job, his wife has left him, his dog ran away, his car was stolen, and he's broke. I had never seen a man look so shockingly, depressed before. After a long pause, the only helpful words that I could think of were "Just maintain." The next day, my friend went big on the stock market and bought a new car, found his dog, got a job with a bigger firm, and had a Victoria Secret model offer to run away with him.

by das Boot1234 October 16, 2007

maingaining

Maingaining is eating at your maintenance calories or near maintenance, so as to minimize fat gain while still gaining muscle. It is a consistent and steady health focused method of gaining muscle, popularized largely by Greg Doucette.

"Hey man are you bulking or cutting right now?"

"Neither, I am maingaining. I am tired of bulking and cutting cycles."

by Baratel January 26, 2021

raging and maintaining

When in college, you party multiple times a week yet maintain a 3.0 gpa

Bro 1:
Dude, your grades blow and you don't even party. I have been raging and maintaining since freshman year and I'm going to get a dope-ass job.

Bro 2: I don't know how you do it bro

by chokatay247 November 14, 2010