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Do it for the vine 

Viners doing crazy stuff for the vine app. It's also one of the lyrics from #everything from Far Young on YouTube.
Do it for the vine!
I ain't gonna do it
Do it for the vine!
I ain't gonna do it!
Do it for the vine!

(Starts doing something crazy)

Do it for the vine 

When someone has a sort of special talent or party trick, and you ask them to do it so you can capture it on camera.
Person 1: I can’t do it right now, man.
Person 2: Come on dude, do it for the vine!
Do it for the vine by UpwindLion November 8, 2019
Word of the Day on November 11, 2019

do it for the vine 

An excuse or way to convince your lesser intelligent friend to do something retarded.
Joker: Dude the camera's on you jumping or what?
Dumbass1: No this is weird bro im scared
Joker: do it for the vine
Dumbass1:o ye! it all makes sense now--*breaks legs*
Joker:sick!!!!!! bro you good
Dumbass1: did you get it*inpain*
Joker: ye lemme show you, o shit it was recording my face
Dumbass1: man fuck you
do it for the vine by proinvestor October 27, 2015

Do it for the vine 

Famous last words
"Yo bro let's jump off this cliff"
"I'mma dO iT fOr The VinEeEeEeEEEeee..."
Do it for the vine by apolloscock November 16, 2019

I did it for the vine 

A phrase that is no doubt on many a police report, tombstone, insurance claim, and divorce petition.
"What's that new tattoo on your collarbone, bro?"
"My family motto"
"I can't read the shitty font what's it say"
"'I did it for the vine'"
"Hey yeah I remember seeing that on your dad and grandpa's tombstones"
I did it for the vine by Honey bee October 10, 2013

doing it for the vine 

In which a strange, dangerous or just outright stupid act is committed so it can be filmed and posted as a six second video on the media platform Vine.
Person 1: I'm going to smash these cartons of milk onto the floor lol
Person 2: What the hell?
Person 1: I'm doing it for the vine!
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Oblication 

A vacation, feeling more like an obligation, that involves visiting or staying with family.
So Joe where are you taking the kids for spring break vacation? We are going on an oblication to Boca to visit my mother-in-law.
Oblication by kimmerr May 5, 2011
Word of the Day on October 25, 2026

Surf Dracula Syndrome 

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I watched "Smallville" on Netflix the other day. Dude, it was ten seasons of filler before he finally flew! Major Surf Dracula Syndrome!
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Northstarring

Finding your way back to the truth by fixing on one verified fact and working out from there, the way you navigate by the North Star when everything around you is spinning.
Rumours were flying everywhere, so she went northstarring — one checked fact at a time.
Northstarring by Light Bearer October 22, 2026
Word of the Day on October 23, 2026
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