This was used as a line in the show 'MAD TV' in one of the sketch's on the show. Its a spin off of "give me liberty or give me death!". Usually used by the dimmer white-trash man who didn't pay attention in Social Studies/History enough to understand the depth of the actual saying.
by Were-muffin September 19, 2008
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Giving the gears is to tease someone by giving them a bit of a hard time but not in a harsh or unkind way.
They were giving me the gears because I went golfing with the boss.
by Levk February 12, 2017
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Anything that you get excited or pumped about; anything that makes you laugh emphatically
"Honey, that dress you got on is giving me life!"

"This video of a guy falling over while running from a spider is giving me life!"
by G Dub LA September 13, 2013
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Something very scary or creepy. Alternative: it gives me the creeps.

Origin: A family that got killed in a tragic landslide in New Hampsire in 1826.
by Mrberlinnh September 18, 2014
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