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The Slipping into Darkness Rule 

The Slipping into Darkness Rule — this rule says: if you hear any part or portion of the song Slipping in Darkness by War in a movie, documentary, or television show; then, THAT’S JUST SOMEBODY’S ASS! Somebody is ‘bout to die or become incarcerated.

Period.

The ultimate song for foreshadowing in urban themed movies
The Slipping into Darkness Rule Can be seen in application in the following media presentations. If you hear this song That’s just somebody’s ass. Period!!!!

Mayans MC season 3 episode 1
Maplethorpe

The Get Down season 1 Episode 5
Suicide Squad
Unsolved: The Murders of Tupac and the Notorious B.I.G. Season 1 Episode 1
American Me
The Deuce season 1 episode 1 (Pilot Episode)

Shipping Wars 

Where a bunch of people start arguing, and wage a war over which couples in a show were meant to be canon in a webcomic, anime, tv show,ect.
I went on this chat room, and there were all these people who started arguing over Homestuck shipping. The arguement quickly became a full on shipping war, and i got involved. Darn shipping wars
Shipping Wars by T3r3z1 Pyrop3 June 22, 2013

shipping William Afton with dead/his children 

A very illegal ship from a game called FNAF
Person A: Hey what ship do you like in FNAF?
Person B: I like shipping William Afton with dead/his children
Person A: Dude thats illegal as hell

Shipping anxiety 

The feeling of waiting for a product you ordered from the internet to arrive.
Phillip, "Yo dude, I ordered some sneakers last week and I've been looking outside my window for the UPS truck the last few days. What if it got lost? What if I got scammed? What if they already dropped it off while I was gone and some thief saw the package in front of my door and stole it?"

Alex, "Bro, calm down. You just got a mad case of Shipping Anxiety."
Shipping anxiety by pipskix August 23, 2010

scrapping 

(verb) The act of collecting various discarded and unwanted scrap metals and taking such precious metals to a scrapyard for a small but helpful monetary reward. Scrapping is oftentimes very hard and dirty work for a relatively small payoff.
Johnny had been unemployed for a stretch now and was struggling to find any decent work. He had lately taken to the toil and trouble of scrapping so he could at least keep his cigarette habit and continue smoking.
scrapping by Nikki Stixx January 28, 2019

Same day shipping at 11:59pm

The Amazon employee has to speed run the package to your home in one minute. If they don’t succeed they are shipped to Afghanistan to be trained as ISIS members.
Me: (Orders an item on Amazon with same day shipping at 11:59pm)
Cursed Amazon worker: Fuck...
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Being ignored by someone when making a statement or asking a question. Also known as blanked and turfed.
Person 1: Did u watch ** last nite?
Person 2:......
Person 3: O no u got aired!
aired by Pietro February 9, 2005
Word of the Day on October 10, 2026

piddlefart

Instead of doing my homework, I decided to piddlefart around for two hours.
piddlefart by Rene April 25, 2005
Word of the Day on October 9, 2026
anyone who succeeds in disgracing/over indulging themselves in the throws of clubland
28 hours and 4 clubs later, gurning for england but still refusing to go home - a total wrongun!!
wrongun by bevvers March 21, 2007
Word of the Day on October 8, 2026

square grouper

Nickname given to bales of marijuana thrown overboard or out of airplanes. Origin is reportedly from members of the US Coast Guard in the area of Southern Florida.
"Base we've got some square groupers floating outside of Miami harbor."
square grouper by slipsheet November 6, 2004
Word of the Day on October 7, 2026
A girl who does ballet and only talks about ballet. Her schedule is filled with dance classes which does not allow her to do any other activity.
"Hey, do you know that girl Sally?"

"Yeah, she's kind of annoying. All she ever talks about it ballet."

"Wow, what a Bunhead."

"Hey Sally, you want to hang out this weekend?"
"I can't, I have dance."
"You're such a Bunhead."

"Yeah... I know."
Bunhead by Jen00 October 24, 2014
Word of the Day on October 6, 2026

trucker's tan 

A sunburn or suntan focused on the left arm. It is caused by the left side of the body being the only half that gets exposed to sunlight while driving. Presumably, it would be located on the right side of the body in countries where they drive on the left side of the road.
I had a trucker's tan after driving for 10 straight hours on a sunny day.
Word of the Day on October 5, 2026
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