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From Amazing Grace to A Floating Opportunity

An old Southern term an African-American mother uses to describe an long and sometimes well deserved, ass-whooping in order to warn her child, or others who cross her. This African-American saying, used as a motherly warning, first popped up in the 1930 play Mule Bone by Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston.
“You’d better behave, or I’ll knock you from amazing grace to a floating opportunity!”
by ajcub225 June 7, 2019
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Floyd Hole

A coma-like trance one goes into after listening to Pink Floyd records for too long
Jim: Look at Mike! He's all tranced out!
Ben: Yeah, he just listened to the entire Dark Side Of The Moon album, he's in a Floyd Hole!
by hewhohatesreligion May 21, 2010
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Wild Flowers

Like wild flowers these tits are not as pleasing on the eye as regular tits. Uncontrollable by a bra due to their shear floppiness. But like wild flowers they are still pleasing nonetheless

Non comforming these tits refuse to be prisoner to any bra

Braless bags of skin
That chick has no bra on. Those are some wild flowers
by Working Class Hero November 28, 2020
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Mopped the Floor

To put someone, or something, to complete shame, or humiliation, and to better it in every capacity; to utterly outdo, outperform or outwit. The phrase is used to conjure sentiments of shaming to the point of using that thing for the lowly task of mopping the floor with. Generally used in past, or more rarely, future or prospective tense.
1. Peyton Manning just mopped the floor with Tom Brady.

2. That kid just mopped the floor of that Pogs tournament!

3. Gandalf would totally mop the floor with Harry Potter.
by Bloodknight November 24, 2010
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floofy

Adjective describing something that is fluffy and/or poofy, that is to say, extremely soft to the touch and lacking mass.
My bed's so floofy, it's like sleeping on a cloud.
by Stephanie M. January 16, 2004
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four to the floor

Four to the floor is a common beat pattern usually found in House music. Its a drum beat accompanied by a heavy base line, and maybe a looped sample of jazz, funk, or disco usually..The basic backbone of most dance music.
Go listen to a house record at you local DJ shop...
by Mario August 3, 2004
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Floater

A person without a set group of friends or place to belong to. They drift aAround and meet new people, usually if dating someone. But if that relationship fails, they move onto the next lucky/unlucky clique. Floaters can either work alone or with a partner, but never exist as more than two people. Floaters are usually strange, creative, troubled, and/or have an offbeat sense of humor. Floaters usually don't mind being a floater, although bouts of loneliness may strike at times. A floater is usually single and plays the field.
After breaking up with her boyfriend, Ilona the floater found a new group of friends.


"What group of friends do you sit with?"
"Oh I only sit with my best friend. I'm a floater."
by Lili Blue December 26, 2008
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