When someone who was previously going places drops their ambitions, often in favor of fitting in with a lower-achieving social circle.
Synonyms: To fall off, to lose one's edge
Etymology: From the pro wrestling term "heel turn" except instead of becoming a heel (villain), the person in question becomes a scrub (underachiever)
Synonyms: To fall off, to lose one's edge
Etymology: From the pro wrestling term "heel turn" except instead of becoming a heel (villain), the person in question becomes a scrub (underachiever)
Diego got into a great university, but he took a scrub turn and centered his life mainly around drinking and playing video games with his buddies. Now a year after graduating college, he seems less talented than he was back in high school.
There's a lot of pressure to turn scrub, but you only get one life to make your dreams come true.
There's a lot of pressure to turn scrub, but you only get one life to make your dreams come true.
by GenTelGuy July 13, 2023
Get the Scrub Turnmug. A term which means to have the your power over someone flipped for you to become the powerless. This is humorous variation of "turn the tables" made to subvert expectation by flipping the order of words around, creating an absurdly worded sentence. Alternatively, the past tense of this phrase is "the turns have tabled"
by Michael Washboard July 7, 2022
Get the tables the turnmug. During church, when a number is called in the songbook and you happen to open the book to the exact number called.
by PhobiaPhrenzy August 27, 2011
Get the one-turnmug. by Gamingbill February 4, 2023
Get the Turn Milemug. by CWB71 February 4, 2016
Get the Turning fapanesemug. US Roads: Signal to other drivers an intent to turn right, switch to the shoulder lane, but instead of turning, one drives through the intersection, and merges back into the driving lane, usually cutting off traffic in the process.
by winny314 September 8, 2019
Get the milwaukee turnmug. by Mabrey June 1, 2016
Get the turn sistersmug.