Usually only seen in small to mid-sized bars, when a bartender gives a patron a drink "on the house". This usually occurs after the patron purchases three or more drinks. It keeps the patron buying drinks and gives them satisfaction.
A rare experience that only occurs once in a great lifetime. Between a salesman and his prey.
When a guy takes a customers trade in, then 20 minutes later sell it right back to said customer at a mark-up.
Tim: Look at my new car!
Jay: Isn't that your old car?
Tim: No.. this one cost 3,000 more!
Jay: No I'm pretty sure that's the same fucking hyundai...
Tim: wha... Son of a B!tch the old Nigerian Buy-Back!!!
Jay: You're a retard.
when one person buys an item and then resells the itemback to the original seller at an inflated price within 24 hours
salesman #1: "did you see that..?"
salesman #2: "no, what happened?"
salesman #1: "that guy just sold us his car for $4,000 and i just sold it back to him for $6,000.. haha"
salesman #2: "nice nigerian buy-back.. classic!!"
v. The act of selling one's text books from the previous semester back to the university. This will ALWAYS result in feelings of abuse, frustration, being ripped off, and barely enough cash to pay for a conciliatory ice cream cone.
"Dude, I spent like $500 on text books for class this spring, and I went to the university book store for a Textbook buy-back, and they only paid me $23 for the whole lot!"
"Wow! That's messed up! You must feel prettyripped-off, abused, and frustrated. Wanna go get some ice cream?"
"Sure. Next year I'm definitely buying my books online, if the school posts the book list earlier than seven days before class!"
While our lifespan is the number of years we will live, our healthspan is the number of healthy years we will have and our sexspan is is the number of years we will continue to be healthy enough to continue having an active sex life.
A lighthearted reaction upon receiving disappointing news of some sort. Usually something that isn't a particularly a big deal, esp. when it primarily affects someone else - sort of a mild schadenfreude. Sometimes doubled or tripled, and possibly said in a sing-songy voice for added comedic effect to imitate a muted trumpet, which is how the meme originated.
You didn't get any napkins with your takeout pork fried rice? Womp womp.
A phenomenon in film/television series, most notably streaming series, where the main premise is drawn out to such a point that it takes an entire season or more to get the parts of the series the audience is actually interested in seeing.
For example, if a series is titled "Surf Dracula," a majority of viewers would tune in expecting to see Dracula surfing by the first or second episode. However, the entire first season would instead be tedious padding and backstory before finally ending with Dracula surfing in the last five minutes of the season finale.
I watched "Smallville" on Netflix the other day. Dude, it was ten seasons of filler before he finally flew! Major Surf Dracula Syndrome!
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.