Focalize. To turn into an arc, to check that everyone is in the right spot within the form. Most commonly used in marching band; would be very strange if used anywhere else.
Jesse, with his flip flops and Cadets tank top, yells "Focalize!" as all of the band kidsroll their eyes and turn into the arc.
The result of knobdicking, thinking you can improve the function of a properly running equipment by adjusting or calibrating the equipment BUT instead you fuck it up
Fogey/fogy /fougi/ sl. (early 18C+, orig. Scot) old-fashioned, stuck-in-the mud.
Person with old fashioned ideas which he is unwilling to change: Come to the disco and stop being such an old fogey!
You think me an old fogeyand an old tory, his thoughtful voice said. I saw three generations since O’Connel’s time. I remember the famine. Do you know that the orange lodges agitated for repeal of the union twenty years before O’Connel did or before the prelates of your communion denounced him as a demagogue? You fenians forget some things. (James Joyce, Ulysses. PenguinBooks,1992. p. 38)