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fair-ing (fairring)
Verb
1) act of attending an exhibition, usually competitive, of farm products, livestock, etc., often combined in the U.S. with entertainment and held annually by a county or state.

2) act of partying and drinking for a period of time at an outdoor event with friends and family.

3) attending an event with music, foods that come on a stick, and lots of beer.

Origin:
1300–50; Middle English feire < Anglo-French, Old French < Late Latin fēria religious festival, holiday ( Medieval Latin: market), in L only plural; akin to feast.

1200-15; West Allis feire < Stallis-Saxon>
We will be fairing for ten days straight.

Dan took off for the state fair and will be fairing.
If you are not fairing, you're failing.
Fairing by DJ Ginger aka Da Ginge August 31, 2013
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fairing off 

Southeastern Missouri term. Not sure if it's known of elsewhere. "Fairing off" pretty much means calming down, or clearing up when it comes to weather. Used if the weather has been pretty bad recently.
"Hey, do you think the rain's gonna fair off today?"

"I think it's been pretty much fairing off over the last two days. Maybe it'll be faired off enough to have a picnic tomorrow."
fairing off by Joshua Squires July 16, 2006
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failing up 

(verb, intransitive) to derive gain in spite of failure that would usually either preclude said gain or have adverse consequences.
Even though Fred was the salesman who lost the big advertising account, he is failing up to a seat on the Board of Directors.
failing up by Nestor W. March 5, 2008

Chekhov’s Firing Squad 

A Chekhov’s Firing Squad is when a TV show or movie has almost no plot in the first several episodes, and then proceeds to pull all triggers at once. The way that this turns out is a show feeling bland, with presumably filler episodes for most of the season, though these episode actually build foreshadowing and silent plot. These small, unnoticed details go completely unheard or said, until they all hit you at once like a freight train.
Bro, that show was a Chekhov’s Firing Squad!”

Firing the Surgeon General 

<verb> The act of masturbating. To masturbate. {obsolete: named after Minnie Joycelyn Elders (born August 13, 1933), the United States Surgeon General from September 8, 1993 to December 31, 1994, who was forced to resign after remarking that she thought it would be appropriate to teach masturbation as an alternative to engaging in riskier sexual behavior.}
George's girlfriend's been on the rag so he's in the bathroom firing the Surgeon General.

Jimmy Failing 

To fail like Jimmy Fallon.
This comedian is totally Jimmy Failing!!! Get off the stage!!
Jimmy Failing by pFritzo July 10, 2014
what are you doing honey

failing
failing by yeetthefeet April 17, 2019
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Whales are large and extremely difficult to close. Due to their immense size, they are highly sought-after.

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Concrete cowboy 

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Todd: He's just a concrete cowboy.
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any hard liquor that is cheap & potent.. eg. relska, popov, potters, evan williams, kamchatka, fireball, rumpleminze, southern comfort, everclear
hey let's get a drink of that?

go ahead
*takes drink* ugh wtf is that?

everclear & bepsi
fucking hobo loko eeessshh
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God Shot 

A chance happening with profound meaning, an unexpected blessing, a "sign".
Dr. Drew on Celebrity Rehab said "All of a sudden what had been just another Hollywood proposal became for him an unexpected blessing, an opportunity for growth. In drug recovery language, that's called a "God shot."
God Shot by Imogen1564 February 25, 2011
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city chicken 

A food native to Pittsburgh/Western Pennsylvania in which cubes of pork and/or veal are put on a short, wooden skewer, breaded, then baked and/or fried.

I've heard that city chicken originated during the Great Depression, when folks didn't have enough money to buy full cuts of meat, so they assembled meat scraps on a wooden skewer, creating a make-shift drumstick. Hence the name.
Are yinz havin' city chicken for dinner?
city chicken by TRF August 31, 2006
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Is that cake?

Another way to say is this fake? Like the show real or cake
“Slayyyter just announced another album last night”
“No way, is that cake?”
“Yeah whoops this isn’t real”
Is that cake? by Sexyyred September 15, 2026
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