stepped off the Golden

Figuratively: When a person commits suicide; literally: When a person jumps off the Golden Gate Bridge.

Sit down, I've got some bad news! CJ has "stepped off the Golden"! Investigators estimate it happened early this morning.

by talk2me-JCH2 March 14, 2021

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half steppin'

trying too hard to be something you're not, and using a thinly disguised method to do it; someone who is a phony; an imposter; faker; bullshitter; a charlatan; A person who makes elaborate, fraudulent, and often voluble claims to skill or knowledge; a quack or fraud;

"he ain't nothin' ... he be half steppin'

Afro-American origin; early 1960s; jazz musicians would criticize a player who obviously had no talent or originality, who would try to play "hip" lines on his horn a half step outside of the key, in an attempt to copy master jazz saxophonist John Coltrane. Ex: "he ain't playin' nothin'.... he's just half steppin'.... (i.e., playing musical melodies momentarily a half step out of the key to create harmonic tension resolved by moving back inside the key, a cheap imitation of the real thing).

by Jazz musician October 16, 2013

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Gets ta Steppin

A command for others to leave immediately.

Most famously coined by comedian Martin Lawrence in his hit 90's TV show called "Martin".

When Martin's friends did something that angered or annoyed him, he would point to the front door, or open it, and say commandingly "Gets ta Steppin!"

by StarryCrown December 15, 2009

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line stepper

An individual who has crossed certain social boundaries, i.e. "the line". Typically this individual is a "habitual line stepper", or one who fails to recognize standard social norms and mores dictating proper behavior in public and in matters of social interaction.

Rick James is THE habitual line stepper. A man should never slap another man. And if he does, he should be looking to get his ass kicked.

by Dr. Combs May 4, 2004

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steppenwolf

title of a novel written by hermann hesse of a lonely intellectual trying to figure out his place in a world consumed in its own meaninglessness and worthlessness.

"Ah, but it is hard to find this track of the divine in the midst of this life we lead, in this besotted humdrum age of spiritual blindness, with its architecture, its business, its politics, its men! How could I fail to be a lone wolf, an uncouth hermit, as I did not share one of its aims nor understand one of its pleasures...I cannot understand what pleasures and joys they are that drive people to overcrowded railways and hotels, into the packed cafes with the suffocating and oppressive music...I cannot understand nor share these joys, though they are within my reach, for which thousands of others strive. On the other hand, what happens to me in my rare hours of joy, what for me is bliss and life and ecstasy and exaltation, the world in general seeks at most in imagination; in life it finds absurd. and in fact, if the world is right, if this music of the cafes, these mass enjoyments of these Americanized men who are pleased with so little are right, then I am wrong, I am crazy. I am the Steppenwolf who I often call myself; the beast astray who find neither home nor joy nor nourishment in a world that is strange and incomprehensible to him."
(quote from the novel)

by Rara July 5, 2005

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