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Kansas City Shuffle

As taken from Wikipedia, and which I checked out elsewhere, the first instance of this term is the title of a Jazz song from 1926 by Bennie Moten. Beyond that, it's a term that's only been given real meaning by the movie Lucky Number Slevin, in which it's used to refer to a kind of con game. Specifically a con in which a combination of distraction and subterfuge cause the mark to turn their attention away from the plot which proceeds in the opposite direction. The term itself is weighted with football, gambling, and other innuendo but since it didn't exist as a phrase until that movie was released, you could read that subtext into it or not. At it's simplest, a good head fake in sports is a Kansas City Shuffle. At a more complex level an army massing battalions of tanks on one front to occupy enemy attention and draw them out of fortified positions while in reality a naval attack ensues instead would also be a Kansas City Shuffle. In short, it's a cute name for a kind of misdirection.
"They look right... and you look left." Lucky Number Slevin's simplest definition of a Kansas City Shuffle delivered by Bruce Willis

There is anecdotal evidence that a football play was called a Kansas City Shuffle. (Note: a shuffle is a type of play)

"Your shoelaces are untied" (followed by tweaking the victims nose) "Now that my friend, is the old Kansas City Shuffle."
by Stephen Daedalus November 6, 2006
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inner city posse

the insane clown posse befor they were called such.
inner city posse gettin wicked with the icp!
by kalah October 19, 2005
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Memorial City Mall

A place in Memorial where innocent girls can go shopping, and unsuspectingly get hit on by sick perverted guys who have no lives. They also go to some damn ghetto schools.
sick guy: hey wanna go to Memorial city mall and hit on some hot girls?

sick guy 2: fuck yahh the girls there go to private schools and are damn hot.

sick guy 1: hey yall are pretty, wanna come hug my friends? maybe walk around with us? wanna fuck?

girl: um. no. I HAVE STANDARDS

sick guy 1: damn. rejection turns me on.
by Karmas UH byotch January 17, 2010
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Gotham City Teeth

(Noun)
1.) Very poor teeth
2.) The type of teeth common to criminals of Gotham City
"Man, that dude got some serious Gotham City Teeth, yo."
by Michael Butala January 11, 2008
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garden city, kansas

Small town of about 28,000 people. Here whites are actually the minority and are pissed off rednecks, but mostly everyone get's along. Very diverse town from Asians, Cockasians, Indians, Hispanics, to even priates from Somalia
Tom: Hey Jose, what do you think about garden city, kansas ?
Jose: Apart from the high pregnancy rate there's fucking nothing to do here so fuck you man for reminding me.
Tom: My bad ese..
by Csiiir April 30, 2009
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Second City of the UK

Birmingham according to Wikipedia is without doubt the second city of the UK - wanabee rival Manchester is a Grim Decaying Mill Town that ranks 9th - how embarassing!

1 London 7,172,091
2 Birmingham 970,892
3 Glasgow 629,501
4 Liverpool 469,017
5 Leeds 443,247
6 Sheffield 439,866
7 Edinburgh 430,082
8 Bristol 420,556
9 Manchester 394,269
Birmingham the second city of the UK - let's all laugh at the poverty stricken grim mill town of Manchester ranked at a lowly 9th!
by Anthony H Wilson October 17, 2008
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Iowa City Boy

Usually boys that attend West City High School. Their personalities are a blend of douche bag, ugly, overly arrogant, disgusting, hairy, bastards.
He's a fake cowboy, must be an Iowa City Boy.
by Gay Guy 345678 April 12, 2012
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