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To quit a job you weren't initially qualified for to avoid an impending disaster.
Knowing he was not actually a matador, Raphael decided to Palin out rather than be gored by the bull.
Palin out by shaneblenk July 10, 2009
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1. To quit something to pursue higher aspirations, while not realizing that you were horrible at what you did to start with.

2. The ironic act of someone who is unfit to perform a public duty quitting and somehow gaining more public recognition.
Sarah Palin is retarded...not in any reference to her obvious DNA she passed on.

or

The Senator from South Dakota was caught in a sexual scandal, so he is Palin out of his post and is now all over the news.
Palin Out by Hi-Definition July 12, 2009

Pailin Out 

Leaving a situation when it get tough or troublesome in order to avoid explaining past behavior.

Re: Sarah Pailin

Also can be used as:

Pailed out, Pail Out, et al.
Listen, after they told me there was a drug test for that job, I was like, "Fuck that, I'm Pailin Out..."

plain-out-of-the-box 

Used when describing how obviously cool something is. Or used to embolden your point.
That is plain-out-of-the-box amazingly awsome.

You are plain-out-of-the-box rediculous.
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Concrete cowboy 

A guy who thinks he's a country kinda guy, but in reality lives a comfortable city / suburban life.
Eugene: Look at that dude in the cowboy hat!
Todd: He's just a concrete cowboy.
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any hard liquor that is cheap & potent.. eg. relska, popov, potters, evan williams, kamchatka, fireball, rumpleminze, southern comfort, everclear
hey let's get a drink of that?

go ahead
*takes drink* ugh wtf is that?

everclear & bepsi
fucking hobo loko eeessshh
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God Shot 

A chance happening with profound meaning, an unexpected blessing, a "sign".
Dr. Drew on Celebrity Rehab said "All of a sudden what had been just another Hollywood proposal became for him an unexpected blessing, an opportunity for growth. In drug recovery language, that's called a "God shot."
God Shot by Imogen1564 February 25, 2011
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city chicken 

A food native to Pittsburgh/Western Pennsylvania in which cubes of pork and/or veal are put on a short, wooden skewer, breaded, then baked and/or fried.

I've heard that city chicken originated during the Great Depression, when folks didn't have enough money to buy full cuts of meat, so they assembled meat scraps on a wooden skewer, creating a make-shift drumstick. Hence the name.
Are yinz havin' city chicken for dinner?
city chicken by TRF August 31, 2006
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Is that cake?

Another way to say is this fake? Like the show real or cake
Slayyyter just announced another album last night”
“No way, is that cake?”
“Yeah whoops this isn’t real”
Is that cake? by Sexyyred September 15, 2026
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