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yard sale

People place used household items, clothes, etc. in their yard and offer them for sale. Usually held on a week end, a "yard sale" often involves one, or a few families who pool their unwanted items to sell, often very cheaply.

Parallel term: "Yard saliing." To drive about from yard sale to yard sale.
I bought this sweater at a yard sale for a dollar and a half.

The Jones family are having their yard sale next week/
by Robert Allen August 29, 2003
mugGet the yard salemug.

Yard gnomed

To be thrown under the bus to such you are standing there looking like a yard gnome.

To be thrown under a bus.

to be stopped in your tracks with information

What the fuck, comes to mind.
Charles got yard gnomed, when his buddy suggested to his boss that Charles work on Saturday.
by feddersenjh January 25, 2012
mugGet the Yard gnomedmug.

yard dog

Another word for squirrels at the US Naval Academy (instead of prairie dogs). Rumor has it, if a plebe catches a yard dog, plebe year ends for the entire class.
Plebe: There's a yard dog! Let's go get it!
by chk chk chk December 26, 2007
mugGet the yard dogmug.

yard sale

event where people sell their junk to other people who get kicks out of buying old used junk
yo i bought this broken lamp from the yard sale on 5th street
by Jicannon August 29, 2003
mugGet the yard salemug.

Going yard

To go to excess, in either a sexual or a drug-related context.
Dude, we are going yard tonight! We have so much alcohol and sexual drive!!!
by B.L. Valerie April 16, 2019
mugGet the Going yardmug.

Yard Sale

A term used in Hockey when a player is body checked so hard, equipment such as gloves, stick and helmet, are sent flying through the air.
Wow, Johnny go rocked so hard coming down the middle that he had a yard sale.
by Flop_sg October 21, 2010
mugGet the Yard Salemug.

yard sale

When a skier bails hard on a ski hill and all of their gear goes fling thru the air and lands as if it were a yard sale.
Dude check it out that ski bunny is having a yard sale.
by zulutango911 April 11, 2009
mugGet the yard salemug.

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