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Mother's Ruin

Gin. Specifically, the alcohol beverage of Gin was called mother's ruin because in the mid eighteenth century the effects of gin on the family and economy were disastrous. Considered the poor man's drink due to its affordability, gin drinking had started out as medicine but due to its easy availability, men became impotent while women became sterile causing the London birth rate to decline drastically. Also, drinking a pint of gin and having an extremely hot bath was recommended as a way to induce a miscarriage (not contraception) in 1950s Britain
"I'll have a mother's ruin and tonic please, with a twist of lime"
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mother in law

Even driving my mother-in-law to the grocery store was a painfully horrible five minutes of my life.
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mother in law

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mothercunt

A term often used by Trinidadians when they are using obscene language and wants to disrespect your mother.
"Yuh F**king mothercunt".
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Mother 1+2

A game NOA is too lazy to release...

It's basically Earthbound 0 and Earthbound put together in a GBA cart.
Oh, Nintendo, when is Mother 1+2 coming out?
by Mr. GS December 26, 2004
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Bring the mother fuckin ruckus

If you ever felt like breaking something, injuring someone, or just straight up fucking shit up.
In Dying Days by As Blood Runs Black sings "Bring the mother fuckin ruckus!" At that point, you go apeshit and start fucking shit up until the breakdown, then you try not to die from headbanging so hard.
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word to your mother

An anachronistic corruption of the phrase "word to the mother", which was a popular reference to Africa or "The Motherland" during the late 1980s Afrocentric movement. While the replacement of "the" with "your" effectively obliterated the term's Afrocentric roots, it continued to be used in the same manner, that is, to express agreement. Alternatively, the "your" could take on sinister connotations, implying that speaker was sexually intimate with the listener's mother, as in "say hi to your mom for me", or, in keeping with the whack terminology, "props to your mom, she's da bomb". Finally, the phrase might mean nothing at all, and be used to ineptly feign street cred, in the style of Vanilla Ice.
Jeff - "Given the uncertainty of today's market, I'm strongly considering increasing my portfolio's share of treasury bills."
Greg - "Word to your mother."
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