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And they were roommates 

Originally a line from a Vine.

It now usually refers to straight people ignorantly misinterpreting gay/lesbian situations.
Person1: I saw a picture of Jim and John holding each other lovingly on Facebook, they must be good friends.

Person2: “and they were roommates”

father's brother's nephew's cousin's former roommate 

Someone whom you have no relation to in genealogy. A joke in the movie Spaceballs
"I am your father's brother's nephew's cousin's former roommate"
"And that makes us?"
"Absolutely nothing! Which you are about to become!"
(Quote from Spaceballs)

Roomania 

Noun:

Official kingdom of famous youtuber RoomieOfficial.

Est. April 25, 2021.
Official national supreme leader: Joel Berghult.
(Actual person in power: mastermind August Green)

Psychiatry:
A state of mind between healthy obsession and complete descent into Roomie-madness.

Last stop before giving ALL your money and pin numbers to the Bergcult.
"The national anthem of Roomania gets 420 out of 11!"

- Joel Berghult

"I bought all the Roomie merch and now I'm too broke to pay for a yt membership. I think I might have roomania."

- Anonymous roomaniac
Roomania by SoGur April 26, 2021

roommate 

What you get when you can't pay all of the rent to stay by yourself. In other words, you get what you pay for. Having peace and quiet is more expensive but well worth it.
Staying with roommates are my least memorable experience in college.
roommate by Sunshine14 March 2, 2009

Shitty Roommate

Shitty Roommate

The shitty Roommate is a male/female who brings utter disgrace to the living quarters and should be avoided at all costs. He/she encompass the characteristics and personality traits that fully display their lack of integrity as a citizen of society. Shitty roommates generally:

(1) do not clean their dishes (sometimes no dish cleaning for months)
(2) has a messy room
(3) Do not take out the trash
(4) Do not clean up after themselves.
(5) Makes excuses for his/her irresponsibility and failings
(6) Exaggerate their excuses
(7) Insist that they are extremely busy as an excuse to not be responsible for their mess.

The archetypal shitty roommate will insist that they are Always busy. Yet he/she will stay up countless hours (10+hrs) playing videos games or watching netflix as opposed to spending 20 minutes to clean their horrendous pile of dishes, take out the trash, and/or other responsibilities. At the end of the day the shitty roommate is an irresponsible humiliation to society.
Shitty Roommate: “Dude, I just got Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic! I’m gonna be playin that shit all night, cuz I’m a nerd! LOL”

Responsible Roommate: “Hey man, I just wanted to let you know that it is actually hazardous to your health to not clean your dishes.”

Shitty Roommate: “Dude, I’m busy. I don’t have time to do the dishes.”

Responsible Roommate: “Oh is that so? Well, I just wanted to bring it up because the dishes haven’t been done in a month.”

Shitty Roommate: “Stop trippin! I’m freakin busy dude! I got 3 papers to write.”

Responsible Roommate: “Are you really that busy, man? Two days ago you stayed up playing Mass Effect for 10 hours. Yesterday you watched Netflix all night. With all due respect, I think it’s only reasonable that you to take a simple 20 minutes of your life to clean your dishes.”

Shitty Roommate: “Dude when you have to write 5 papers then you’ll know what’s it’s like to be busy.”

Responsible Roommate: “First you told me you had to write 3 papers. Now you’re saying you have to write 5 papers? Ya know, I’m a full time college student too, and I also work practically full time. I wrote 2 papers this week in between working 35 hours for the week. The bottom line is that you’re a shitty roommate. Be a Jedi knight and do those dishes!”

roommate chicken 

The condition where a group of people sharing a living space each avoid doing a household chore for an extended period because each believes it's someone else's responsibility. The idea is that eventually the situation will reach a critical mass where the guilty party will cave in and do the chore. In practice, the situation can escalate to extreme levels.
"I'm not going to do the dishes. It's your turn." "Yeah, but 90% of them are from the dinner you made for your girlfriend. I'm not cleaning up your mess." "I'm not playing roommate chicken with you on this. Clean it up!" "I'll die before I clean your mess." "Fuck you!" "Fuck you!"
roommate chicken by Logan Hawkes January 3, 2008
Word of the Day on June 12, 2010
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Surf Dracula Syndrome 

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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.
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Plate of Brown 

A plate of brown consists of foods that have little to no nutritional value, and are typically deep fried. A true plate of brown will also be accompanied by a dark soda.
Wanna go to meal hall & grab a plate of brown?
Plate of Brown by Cheddar Craigson September 18, 2020
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Andrew Tate has mastered the field of larpenomics
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Palmela Handerson 

Your hand that you masturbate with.
Girlfriend: What are you going to do for the next week while I'm on holiday?

Boyfriend: Have a visit from Palmela Handerson of course!
Word of the Day on October 20, 2026
Basically the same meaning as ate.
x:"Girl your fit chewed today!"
Chewed by iod1o March 30, 2022
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