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tenth avenue freeze up 

With its name derived from the Bruce Springsteen hit
"Tenth Avenue Freeze Out", a tenth avenue freeze up
is the inability to urinate in a public bathroom.
Better go to the bathroom before we leave for the
ball game--the bathrooms at the stadium will be
crowded and you might have a tenth avenue freeze up.

freeze up 

Freeze Up means "to stop" or in other words "chill out"
Eze: a wass gud shawty
Patience:Freeze up talkin 2 me n***a
Eze:lol I'm Just playin...

freeze up 

when you are called on in class to answer a question you dont know and freeze because you were slacking off or sleeping
dude: hey man what happened to you in class today when the teacher picked on you?

other dude: sorry i was taking my after lunch nap and had a freeze up
freeze up by fairytailmaster May 16, 2011

freeze up 

When something threatens your system. This could be a job interview, performing on stage, giving a speech or a Glock 40 at yo azz.
Don't freeze up now! Talk that ish you was talkin' earlier.
freeze up by Cap Peeler March 2, 2024

Traumatic Freeze Up 

When you freeze up in a defining moment and the effects are then traumatizing in the years to follow.
Dawg I was finally boutta clap and make her my wife but I got so nervous I froze, and when you’re a grower not a shower that shit is a traumatic freeze up

flophouse 

Any house/apartment/frat house/trailer/etc. which is used for individuals to crash (sleep, chill, hang out, lurk, etc.) for a period of time. In order to "crash", one must not actually live there (e.g. have their name on the lease, own said flophouse, etc.). Flophouses are typically used by college students, drug addicts, transients, vagrants, or other unsavory characters.

A flophouse may also be the home owned by the parents of a college student, who after being away at college, wishes to live as if he/she is still at college (e.g. staying out all night, returning just to crash at mom and dad's house, then leaving again), rather than conforming to the pre-college rules.
Example #1
Dude: (Talking to someone passed out face first on the floor of his college apartment) Hey man, who the hell are you? What do you think this is, a flophouse??

Bro: Sorry dude, I must have passed out for a minute.

Example #2
Mom: Where have you BEEN for the last three days? You come home just to sleep?? What do you think this is, a flophouse??!!

Son: What's your problem? I'm an adult now!
flophouse by J3553 November 21, 2007
Word of the Day on July 27, 2026