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Shanting 

To 'ave one ell of a pissup.
Me and Mike went out shanting last night, it was gurnage
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shanting 

1. To lose one’s breath and/or hyperventilate due to a sudden, acute and/or painful evacuation of the colon. 2. When you are out of breath from force-dropping a deuce.
Question: “Dude, were you just doing pushups in that bathroom... cause you’re like totally out of breath and your eyes are watering?!" (Out of Breath) Answer: "No... I’m just… SHANTING… that’s all… Best not… go in there… for 20 minutes.”
shanting by Chris-Baby April 30, 2019

Shanting 

To deprive someone

The act of depriving someone from someone or something.
God is shanting Geoff from getting a woman.
Shanting by Geoff Kontz July 26, 2004

Shanting 

Getting to work late, leaving early, doing personal things at work, having stupid reasons on why you have to leave early
At 2 p.m. Joe says, "I have to leave. I don't want to sit in traffic." Fellow employee, "Why are you always shanting?"
Shanting by Youknowdaboy August 1, 2016

Shanting 

The act of saying illogical things, accompanied by an idiotic smile and expression.
Person 1: "Hey, can you pick me up first then pick up Michael?"
Person 2 (Nerses): "Why would I do that, Michael lives a street away you live across town?"
"Sorry, I was shanting."
Shanting by ShantsAHoe September 22, 2014
Fogey/fogy /fougi/ sl. (early 18C+, orig. Scot) old-fashioned, stuck-in-the mud.
Person with old fashioned ideas which he is unwilling to change: Come to the disco and stop being such an old fogey!
You think me an old fogeyand an old tory, his thoughtful voice said. I saw three generations since O’Connel’s time. I remember the famine. Do you know that the orange lodges agitated for repeal of the union twenty years before O’Connel did or before the prelates of your communion denounced him as a demagogue? You fenians forget some things. (James Joyce, Ulysses. Penguin Books,1992. p. 38)
fogey by Petyush September 14, 2005
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