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pushing the green thread

a colloquialism used in phased array ultrasonic testing describing the act of maximizing the signal amplitude over a range of angles during calibration
Yo, did you push the green thread? Your sensitivity is whack at 60°
Took me forever to push the green thread on this notch. Sigh.
What’s the point of pushing the green thread for an ‘S’?
by mm_are_better May 22, 2024
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thread

someone who gives u inside info from the inside, like a thread would tie two things tg
yeah lincoln is my thread, he records all the fights at his private school so that i know all the drama even tho i dont go there
by placentaignite March 19, 2024
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Double-thread

The skillful and dangerous art of chatting two or more people on Insta, WhatsApp, SMS at the same time.

The expert double-threader will stay current with the flow of all their chats, being careful not to send the wrong message to the wrong people.

The unsuccessful: may God have mercy on your Slack
Me (SMS): Hey, hey, are you still there? Are you chatting someone else - are you tryna double-thread me?
Her (3 minutes later): Baby, I'm sorry, you caught me! Haha. I'll tell my mother I'll hit her up later.
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Boss (WhatsApp group chat): Everybody, I need that response on the Dithers account in the next five minutes.
Soon-to-be ex-employee: Marlon, get a load of Mr. Next Five Minutes. Next time I see the boss, I'll tell him he has five minutes to fuck off!
Boss: looks like somebody dosen't know accounting OR double-threading
by Burntsox August 7, 2022
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thread chicken

If you aren't sure if you're going to run out of bobbin thread before finishing your current seam, but you keep stitching without re threading your bobbin, you are playing thread chicken.
I totally lost a game of thread chicken, and now I have to re-sew the entire fucking seam.
by E.wolfsbane January 27, 2022
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Thread Killer

A “thread killer” is a member of a group text who sends a comment so wheels off that the other members cease conversation.
Rage replied to a text thread with:

“My b-hole is hairy...I don't shave it, so when explosive shit comes at 120 mph, it's like a Brazilian wax

Rage is a thread killer
by Ffbking February 3, 2022
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hanging on by a thread

idiom used to express struggling in some way, barely surviving/getting by, or relying on the very last bit of wherewithal someone has to stay afloat in life or in a particular situation
"After spilling my coffee all over myself, hitting bad traffic which made me late to work, and receiving a negative performance review from my boss, by the time the end of work rolled around I was barely hanging on by a thread."
by louisaaaa06 January 26, 2026
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