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Tango Sucka

Battle terminology. A term used to signal to teammates nearby that a hostile has been eliminated, interchangeable with the more familiar phrase, "tango down." Originated in Arabic speaking countries as "tango sakat," where "sakat" literally means "fell".

The phrase first became an English slang, albeit in a different form, during the Persian Gulf War in 1990, presumably after hearing enemy combatants in close proximity reciting the Arabic phrase. After the engagement ceased, accounts indicated that a small number of US ground forces used the phrase "tango sucked it" in place of "tango down."

When "tango sucked it" is spoken with a sense of urgency, the listener often would confuse it with "tango sucka," where "sucka" is a slang popularized by the US music industry. It is unclear when the shift occurred, but generally believed to be a gradual and localized process.

Following the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, accounts from battlefronts in Afghanistan, and later Iraq, spoke of a wider adoption of the phrase in place of "tango down."

In 2009, the phrase was inadvertently, and possibly unknowingly, popularized by Modern Warfare 2, developed by Infinity Ward. In the game, members of the Arabic faction would announce "tango sakat" when they kill a member of the opposing force. However, the phrase sounded like "tango sucka" to the player base, majority of which spoke only English. Search "MW2 tango sucka" on YouTube for examples.
(Soda kills an enemy sniper)
Soda: Tango sucka!
Tac: Good kill. Good kill.
Rebenko: Forward area clear! Move out!
by Stanovoy January 14, 2010
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jive sucka

An un-hip loser, closely resembling a square.
Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth: "It's about time. While you were gone, the Globetrotters held a press conference informing everyone that I was a 'jive sucka.'"

Taken from Futurama.
by DSkills September 17, 2008
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A term sometimes used interchangeably with Sucka MC, used to describe a fake or 'posing' person. Q-Tip of A Tribe Called Quest did an entire song revolving around this term.
"I throw the sucka in the front for the ones that front." -A Tribe Called Quest, "Sucka Nigga"
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i'm from the sucka free city homie.
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That's the shit--sucka free!
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the POS that is Responsys Interact v6 (aka Vista)
Why didn't the e-mail launch?" "Because of the sheer magnitude of SUCKAGE that is Responsys
by vistaphile2 July 8, 2010
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Suckage

Total state of suck. Where everything in sight is teh sux0r.
Giant robots crushed the casinos and mooshed the brothels and started fires that burned things and left ruin and SUCKAGE
by PSYmon February 27, 2003
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