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Hover-grating 

A careless method of grating cheese by holding the block of cheese and grater high above the food, causing it to disperse everywhere but the intended dish.

Characterised by fragments of grated cheese found everywhere around the kitchen afterwards - often accompanied by a larger, dry block of remnant cheese left out for many days after said cheese-grating incident.

Particularly common in Rootes P 2nd kitchen, and generally anywhere inhabited by a German-Italian partnership.
Dude 1: "Awww wtf Jasper, there's cheese everywhere on the table again!"
Jasper: "Sorry dude, Francesco and I made pesto pasta last night and we were hover-grating the cheese over it."
Dude 1: "Aw not again dammit."
Pit: "In Luxembourg..."

Hover-grating is the only way to truly enjoy a German-Italian dish.
Hover-grating by rootesp2nd March 3, 2011

grunching 

replying to the first post in a forum thread without reading any of its replies by other users. the idea being to give responses which are not influenced by well-known posters.
Gruncher:
*grunching* In my opinion, that's a poor reason not to vote.
grunching by sgrrman February 16, 2008
When dumbass hoes wear there headband like it's a crown
"Fix your headband you dumbass hoe. Your gracing!!!"
Gracing by HOCKEY TEAM February 6, 2014
Something that's nagging and then builds up inside and eventually turns into an annoyance.
"I know something you don't know!"

... (Conversation carries on and the 'something' still hasn't been told)

"Please just tell me! It's grating on me now!"
Grating by a-benni December 27, 2011

Glitching the Swing 

1. 'Glitching the Swing' represents a paradigm shift in the way a player approaches a game and plays it. The term suggests a sense of apathy at a game's intended game-play style that leads to a pointless, impatient ramblng play that has no sense of direction or purpose and adds nothing towards actual, measurable progress within a game.

2. The point in which a videogame's inherent game-world, features and storyline missions cease to be as exciting/fun and become too repetetive or predictable for the player to feel motivated enough to play a game 'properly' anymore. They procrastinate play within the game-world, looking instead to the game's glitches and inconsistencies as a more enthralling form of entertainment.

The phrase originates from a disappointing experience some players may have had when playing the single player campaign of Grand Theft Auto IV. To some, the game's missions gradually revealed themselves to be quite repetetive, and the much-vaunted ability to go out with friends eventually became a chore as the incessant pestering of the player by phone hampered enjoyment. Discounting online play, the player is then left with no alternative but to find other sources of enjoyment within the game away from the pre-set activities, a prime example being trying to exploit a glitch in a swingset in Broker/Dukes that if done correctly, will launch the player or the vehicle into the air. This is a difficult thing to master, so if a player finds themselves tired or deflated by the game's incumbent game-play dynamics and is more interested or thrilled at spending time trying to master the glitching of the swing than progressing through missions, the game/player has 'glitched the swing'

This is somewhat comparible but not analogous to the exisiting terms 'Jump the Shark' and the newer 'Nuke the Fridge', as a videogame can, in its own way still do both these things also.

Glitch the Swing is also just as subjective as these terms, however it is more dependent on any one player's attention span, cynisism or ease-of-amusement, and even thier degree of experience playing games of much a similar style, as this could lead to early glitching of the swing.

Not only this, but a player themselves can glitch the swing if they so choose. All they would need to do is overindulge in countless hours of play within a short enough space of time that overfamiliarity with the game-play mechanics prompt them to look for other ways to amuse themselves while playing the game.

A player is particularly glitching the swing if they have not progressed that far within the game's story or missions by the time they reach this watershed moment.
"Yeah GTAIV is a great game and all, but it's all the same after a while. I'm having more fun glitching the swing in Broker"

"Why are still playing? You're not even DOING anything in it anymore. You've glitched the swing"

"This game's such a let down. I got tired after 3 hours. I'm glitching the swing just thinking about it"
Glitching the Swing by J-Lime June 17, 2008

Grothing 

To excrete faecses while ejaculating
David was having a quiet grothing session at home by himself while the mrs and kids went shopping, he was unaware that she forgot her purse. She ran quickly into the house to get her purse from the kitchen and found David in the heights of grothing on their dining table......
"OH MY GOD?!! WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU DAVID??!!!!!! I told you not to be grothing all over the house!!!! Your paying for the cleaner this time!!!!! I hope you save that for our churting session in Thursday....."
Grothing by Grothstalker September 29, 2012
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proper lad 

a lad that is such a lad that he is a proper lad
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person2: ya he was a proper lad
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You didn't get any napkins with your takeout pork fried rice? Womp womp.
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Wife’s boyfriend: You have 5 more minutes
Me: Poggers!
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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
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Surf Dracula Syndrome 

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For example, if a series is titled "Surf Dracula," a majority of viewers would tune in expecting to see Dracula surfing by the first or second episode. However, the entire first season would instead be tedious padding and backstory before finally ending with Dracula surfing in the last five minutes of the season finale.
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