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fall-back complaint 

when someone often changes the subject to repeat specific complaints.
Bill mentioning a problem he is having regardless of what other people are saying is a fall-back complaint.

Joe: How was your day?
Bill: Fine. Do you know why is the bus always late?

Mary: Hello Bill.
Bill: Hey. The bus is late again.

Dave: Talk to you tomorrow Bill.
Bill: Okay! I hope the bus wont be late.

Jim: Can you give me Mary's number?
Bill: Did you know the bus is always late?
fall-back complaint by mack junk February 3, 2012
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Epic fail kid 

Kids from ages 11-13 Who think that saying "Epic", "Fail", "OMG" Or any combination of the above with any amount of Z's on the end will make them "cool"
Person 1: Lol i love Portal 2
Epic Fail Kid: ZoMFG!! ThaT Ga3M is SUUUCHhhh an EPIC FAil HAHAHA!!!!!

Person 1: -shoots self-
Epic fail kid by Kaiju91 July 10, 2011

Scorpion Fall 

When you face-plant into the ground, and your feet come up and behind your head making you look like a scorpion.
Scorpion Fall by Pyzro November 14, 2011

PALIN FAIL 

A failure more epic than EPIC FAIL can indicate.
Sarah Palin's interview with Katie Couric was a PALIN FAIL.
PALIN FAIL by halo0 January 15, 2009

Fall Out Boy Syndrome 

When an emo band makes a song title so long that you cannot remember the name, only the way the song sounds.
Panic! At the Disco's "I Constantly Thank God for Esteban" is a classic example of Fall Out Boy Syndrome.
Fall Out Boy Syndrome by BeanboUrine September 14, 2015

Fall off the grid 

To (seemingly) disappear from the face of the earth
Disappear to a place one would be very unlikely to be found.
What happened to Tom? I haven't talked to him since ten years ago.

Last time I heard, he got caught up in a drug-related arrest. Somehow escaped from prison and was forced to fall off the grid, probably somewhere in the Amazon Rainforest living with them Natives by now.
Fall off the grid by Ch4lk April 24, 2010