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Scotlanding 

Used in reference to continuous sporting disappointment. To snatch defeat out of the jaws of victory. To throw away a winning position normally completely of your own making. To provide false hope to a nation that you might just reach a modest sporting achievement only to crash everyone back down to earth with a full on double dose of reality.
We were 5-0 with a minute of the game left but then ended up totally Scotlanding it.

We’re winning but I have a horrible feeling we’re going to end up Scotlanding it.

I Honestly thought we were going to do it today, but then I remembered we always end up Scotlanding it!

I thought Timmy was going to win the egg and spoon race, but he tripped over his laces at the finish line and smashed his egg, totally Scotlanding it!
Scotlanding by Red King80 June 14, 2021
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Scotlanding 

The feeling of not being able to relax on game day when you think your sports team is going to let you down like the Scottish rugby team does every six nations
I'm really Scotlanding about the Leicester Tigers game later today

I can't believe we were Scotlanding before today's game. We totally smashed them in the shock absorber

Those Man Utd fans must be Scotlanding right now. up against their better and mightier foes: Man City
Scotlanding by Chris Caulton August 28, 2016

Scotlanding 

Used in reference to continuous sporting disappointment. To snatch defeat out of the jaws of victory. To throw away a winning position normally completely of your own making. To provide false hope to a nation that you might just reach a modest sporting achievement only to crash everyone back down to earth with a full on double dose of reality.
We were 5-0 with a minute of the game left but then ended up totally Scotlanding it.

We’re winning but I have a horrible feeling we’re going to end up Scotlanding it.

I Honestly thought we were going to do it today, but then I remembered we always end up Scotlanding it!
Scotlanding by Red King80 June 14, 2021

bang a you-ee 

of Massachusetts orig. "to make a u-turn"
hey, we missed the bar, bang a you-ee
Word of the Day on July 19, 2026
The word 'flag' as pronounced by people with thick Belfast accents. The term is a perfect encapsulation of the disproportionate and overblown reaction to the removal of the Union Jack (as in 'de fleg') from above City Hall in Belfast. Where previously it had flown for 365 days per year, it is now flown on 17 designated days of the year - in line with many other British cities.

The event caused a portion of the Protestant community ('fleggers') to make international pricks of themselves as they proceeded to wreck the fucking place, claiming it was another erosion of a 'British' identity they perceive to have been under attack since the horrifying spectre of equality reared its head in Northern Ireland.

The word 'fleg' - and indeed 'fleggers' - fittingly describes a section of humanity unconcerned with knowledge, reality or the vagaries of the English language. Like America's tea-baggers they are ruled by instinct, fear and paranoia with a side dish of rampant bigotry and startling ignorance of the world around them.
"Wat de fuck like! The taigs got de fleg took down! Let's wreck de fuckin place! No surrender!"

"De fleg has been took down! Before ye know it there'll be a united Ireland! Attack Short Strand! God Save The Queen!"
Fleg by OnionFleg August 9, 2013
Word of the Day on July 18, 2026
To take something small, that doesn't quite qualify as a theft. Probably from the Danish "skæv" or the Dutch "scheef", both of which are pronounced similarly, meaning "askew, or not quite right'. To change an item's ownership without permission, but only something small and of little worth.
"I skeefed an apple off the neighbor's tree." "I skeefed some chips outta your bag when you looked away." "Don't skeef my chair when I go to the bathroom."
Skeef by kachinaflonk July 16, 2026
Word of the Day on July 17, 2026