A concept that refers to back-up instrument players with their microphones being muted. They will be shown singing and playing their drums, piano, or guitar and singing back-up for the lead singer. However they probably don't sing very well, so the lead singer mutes their microphone to insure a good overall performance. We use Ringo Star as an example because he is the least preferred of any of the Beatles and he had the worst singing voice of any of them.
Lead singer 1: Dude our drummer has such a bad voice
Lead singer 2: Yeah, why do we give him a microphone anyway?
Lead singer 1: I don't know but we should mute Ringo's mic.
Lead singer 2: Hah, so he'll think he's singing when he's really not?
Lead singer 1: Exactly!
Lead singer 2: Yeah, why do we give him a microphone anyway?
Lead singer 1: I don't know but we should mute Ringo's mic.
Lead singer 2: Hah, so he'll think he's singing when he's really not?
Lead singer 1: Exactly!
by hedecky May 30, 2011
Get the Mute Ringo's Micmug. by wolftone1916 December 20, 2020
Get the Mutemug. Trying to eat something without making too much noise by chewing slower. Usually used to avoid waking someone up or to not break the silence around you.
Lucy: *Asleep with her head resting on John's shoulder*
John: *Picks up a taco from his left and bites into it*
Lucy: *Wakes up* Shhh i'm trying to sleep...
John: *Takes another bite but does it softly and chews slowly to create less noise*
Lucy: You're terrible at Mute Eating.
John: *Picks up a taco from his left and bites into it*
Lucy: *Wakes up* Shhh i'm trying to sleep...
John: *Takes another bite but does it softly and chews slowly to create less noise*
Lucy: You're terrible at Mute Eating.
by BlueNipple November 9, 2013
Get the Mute Eatingmug. by Jason Moran March 7, 2008
Get the muted buglemug. Have you ever muted the TV during the commercials, only to unleash your wife's blabbering about some subject you couldn't care less about? I mean, commercials are annoying, but your wife puts them to shame. Well, you can't tell your wife to shut up, we all know how that ends, but what you can do is "reverse-mute" her.
The way the reverse-mute works is, just as your wife starts to really unload on the blabber, you un-mute the TV and jack up the volume to a level she can't compete with. In effect, you are silencing her because she can't compete with the loud TV.
As soon as she realizes the TV is too loud to compete with, she'll shut the hell up. At that point you mute the TV again and once again you have silence.
The way the reverse-mute works is, just as your wife starts to really unload on the blabber, you un-mute the TV and jack up the volume to a level she can't compete with. In effect, you are silencing her because she can't compete with the loud TV.
As soon as she realizes the TV is too loud to compete with, she'll shut the hell up. At that point you mute the TV again and once again you have silence.
An annoying commercial had just kicked in on the TV, so I muted it. My wife took this as a license to tell me about some stupid movie she watched last night. Blah, blah, blah blah. On and on about the movie. Finally, I had enough, so I resorted to the reverse-mute at full volume. Not being able to compete, she finally shut up and we had peace and harmony again.
by Del Ritchie February 17, 2022
Get the Reverse-mutemug. When you see a comment so ridiculous on social media that you instantly mute/block the poster, regardless of length of friendship or without further scrutiny of poster's page
by WestBankSam December 31, 2023
Get the Mute Pointmug. by Volcanic_whale23 October 24, 2020
Get the Mute mainmug.