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Play on, Playa! 

(exclamation, informal) A term used to encourage a Player (someone who is highly skilled at playing people, games, situations, etc.) to continue to play. Equal to "Keep up the good work!"
- Dude, you have a girlfriend for every day of the week. Play on, Playa!
- You scored the most points in the last home game. Play on, Playa!
- I see that your swag is superior to everybody else in this club... Play on, Playa!
Play on, Playa! by beautiflyb June 5, 2017

Play on Words 

A theatrical performance acted out on top of a dictionary.

Play on Words Comedian 

A non-comedian person who tries to be funny by playing on words. Tends to reuse jokes that worked the first time over and over again.
Play on Words Comedian:
Picks up a battery and asks "what's the charge?"

play on player

1. Term used for making fun of people who act too ghetto for the suburbs.

2. Term used for a guy who cuts you off in traffic.

3. Term used for someone who thinks they are better, hotter, or more successful than everyone else.
1. Damn, he's so ghetto he should go live in da hood. Play on player.

2. Get in your own lane player.

3. He thinks he's the shizzle. Play on player.
play on player by mgp March 17, 2005

play on my phone

to try and step when you know that I will keep it realer.

note: can be used in an abstract sense also.

origin: Chappelle's Show skit "when keepin' it real goes wrong"
Firefox needs to quit playin on my phone or I'm gonna use IE!
play on my phone by b-lo August 30, 2005

play on's 

Songs that bring lyricism to a new level, making clever jokes about everyday uses
"World cup flow, i can't kick it witchya" -jay steez clever use of words that obtain a deeper meaning. "Ayo throw in some play on's on this verse make it hot"
play on's by TooTalentd July 20, 2017
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When your wife’s boyfriend let you sleep past 8pm 😎😎
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 

A phenomenon in film/television series, most notably streaming series, where the main premise is drawn out to such a point that it takes an entire season or more to get the parts of the series the audience is actually interested in seeing.

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.
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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