kid pro quo

Buying something you don't want or need from a co-worker or friend's kid, hoping to build karma for the next time your kid is selling something.

You: Why on earth did you buy 20 boxes of thin mints!?!
Me: Kid pro quo: Joe's daughter is a girl scout - and you know Billy's school has a fund raiser this fall.

kid pro quo by yogamomma February 26, 2010

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Kid Pro Quo

When two parental units (single or duo) send a responsible and/or experienced kid off to monitor the less responsible and/or inexperienced, resulting in parental relaxation.

G(9th grader): Can I go to (BadBoy)'s house?
Mother of G: Only if C(junior) goes with you?
G & C & C's mom: Yeah!
All Parents: Kid Pro Quo!

Kid Pro Quo by PrincetonTiger November 29, 2009

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kid pro quo

When one parent offers to watch the kids so the other can go out with their friend, in exchange for reciprocation of duties later.

"Sure you can go out with your girlfriends tomorrow night, but next weekend I wanna go have a beer with Dave, you know, kid pro quo!"

kid pro quo by the_docta May 26, 2021

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Kid Pro Quo

When you barter childcare duties with your partner, so they can go out with friends.

Sure, I can watch the kids on Friday night when you're out with the girls, but kid pro quo - I wanna go have a beer with Dave next Thursday.

Kid Pro Quo by the_docta June 1, 2021

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fogey

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. Penguin Books,1992. p. 38)

fogey by Petyush September 14, 2005

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Jarlic

Minced garlic in a jar

Add a tablespoon of jarlic to two teaspoons of butter and spread it in bread to make garlic bread

Jarlic by YSAC fanboy June 6, 2020

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Pitpig

An armpit enthusiast — typically of the scent, appearance, and touch of hairy underarms.

That dude’s such a pitpig, I have to wear deodorant to keep him at bay.

Pitpig by wimbledon May 28, 2026

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