Poke the right bears

Business folks say this to 1) imply they can do favors, affect change, etc. and 2) sound macho.

Especially common among grown-up douchebro yuppie types.

Hydrogen fuel cells aren't a development priority this quarter? Let me see if I can poke the right bears to get this done.

by unicodebandito May 9, 2017

Gummy Bear

A person who believes in something full heartedly with only half the facts.

Those gummy bear Mormons have no idea what their talking about.

by Camel with a jetpack April 11, 2023

Bear Season

The urge to go to bed at 7PM when it gets dark very early in the northern hemisphere.

"Wanna go get a beer?"
"Can't: Bear Season."

"I fell asleep at six and was wide awake by 3 AM"
"yeah man, that's Bear Season for you"

by Rolandofgilead December 22, 2024

Reverse bear

seks from the back with bear noises (big hug)

im gonna reverse bear you grrrrrrl

by #1reversebearfan May 26, 2025

Jungle Bear

A slur used for predominantly colored bears in the game Gang Beasts

“Get this jungle bear out of here”

by Jungle bear78 January 22, 2022

Booga bear

A nickname for a longhaired cowboy in Oklahoma

That ‘ol booga bear is a regular old cowpoke.

by 808error November 27, 2023

Bear

A common term for a state trooper out in the Midsection of the U.S. Most notably heard in C. W. McCall’s Convoy. More commonly heard in but not limited to: Arizona, New Mexico Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska, Illinois, and even parts of Minnesota!

By, the time we got into Tulsa Town, we had 85 trucks in all, but there’s a roadblock up on the clover leaf and them bears were wall-to-wall, Yeah them smokeys were as thick as bugs on the bumper, they even had a bear in the air, I said “calling all trucks, this is the duck, we’re about to go hunting bear!”

by airplanelover12 May 21, 2020