by Gumba Gumba February 20, 2004
Get the ace of spades mug.In contract bridge, as well as a number of other card games, spades are the highest-ranking of the four suits (clubs, diamonds, hearts, spades.) Thus a bid in spades outranks a bid in hearts. By extension beyond cards, "in spades" expresses a decisive, complete, no-doubt defeat. If I suffer a (real or imagined) injury from you, and I retaliate with disproportionate vigor, I have paid you back "in spades."
paid him in spades - In contract bridge, as well as a number of other card games, spades are the highest-ranking of the four suits (clubs, diamonds, hearts, spades.) Thus a bid in spades outranks a bid in hearts. By extension beyond cards, "in spades" expresses a decisive, complete, no-doubt defeat. If I suffer a (real or imagined) injury from you, and I retaliate with disproportionate vigor, I have paid you back "in spades."
by VadimK August 8, 2009
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What canadians say when something seems to be popular or mainstream, but doesn't seem likely in their own country.
Friend #1: "Why is there Nascar playing on TV at this bar?"
Friend #2: "People love Nascar"
Friend #1: "You think?"
Friend #1: "In the states"
Friend #2: "People love Nascar"
Friend #1: "You think?"
Friend #1: "In the states"
by imdre April 4, 2011
Get the In the states mug.All the blue states that voted for Kerry in the 2004 election... the states that are so embaressed that Bush won the election and wish they belong to Canada instead.
Contrasted to all the red states, called Jesusland.
Contrasted to all the red states, called Jesusland.
by majenwen November 30, 2004
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CEO: Sweet semen of baby jesus, Internet Spaceships are serious business, divorce her and improve the pew pew!
CEO: Sweet semen of baby jesus, Internet Spaceships are serious business, divorce her and improve the pew pew!
by LulzShip November 9, 2012
Get the Internet spaceships mug.A slang euphemism used in polite 50s and 60s middle and upper class America, subtly referring to “Upper U. S.,” instead of saying the more crude “Up your ass!”
I can recall my mother leveling her coldest icy blue-eyed stare and uttering to someone she had deemed a jerk, “Well, Northern United States, buddy!”
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