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GIGN

GIGN (acronym for Groupe d'intervention de la Gendarmerie nationale) is the special operations squad of the French Gendarmerie.

This unit gained celebrity for its success in the Grand Mosque Seizure, in December 1979 or other couter-terrorism operations like the liberation of the 164 passengers of Air France Flight 8969 during Christmas eve, 1994. The plane, hijacked by four GIA terrorists that planned to either fly the plane into the Eiffel Tower in Paris, or simply blow it up over the city.
America had 11-09, France has GIGN.
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Going Jessie

An old southern expression dating to the early 1800s that means to vigorously pursue an activity, someone akin to "going nuts with it," but only when "going nuts with it" is used to imply doing a lot quickly.
That Mildred sure is going jessie.
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keep going

This is what you should always do, no matter what. Even when you feel like you can't, because people are putting you down or because you think there's no point in it - just keep going. There's always light at the end of a tunnel. There's a rainbow after the rain.
"Don't watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going."
-Sam Levenson
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Going H.A.M

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going to the mattresses

Going to war with a rival clan or family. Used in the mafia. Its when a mafia family sends someone out to get someone apartments and some mattresses for the soldiers of the family to sleep on while they hide out in saftey, waiting for a call to do something.
Sonnys thinkin' about going to the mattresses already.
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going

someone who has and will have sex with everybody and anybody
i wouldnt fuck her she goin'. she fuck my nigga.
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goin down

to get on your knees and suck cock
the present tense version of went down
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