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Garden path 

Refer’s to a man’s ‘happy trail’ or lower belly hair. Especially on a teenage boy whose garden path is just beginning to grow.
*teenage boy takes his shirt off*

‘Look at that garden path you’re growing on your belly
Garden path by MCLCLCNCJCOC123 October 20, 2018

garden path sentence 

A sentence that when read, causes unintentional confusion because the reader thinks it means one thing when actual meaning is different from reader's said meaning.
James: I'll never get this report on "Why English is butchered" done.

Robert: James, time flies like arrows, fruit flies like bananas.

James: Will you stop using that gibberish?, Everybody knows that neither fruit nor bananas fly.

Robert: For someone who's a an English major, you know nothing about garden path sentences.

James: I should've known.

Sold up the garden path 

This seems to be a mixture of "led down the garden path" (meaning misled) and "sold up the river" (meaning "handed over to law enforcement", slang derived from the fact that Sing-Sing state prison is "up the (Hudson?) river" from New York City).
The enthusiastic young first-time buyer was led down the garden path by the unscrupulous used-car salesman.

The entire gang that pulled off the bank heist was sold up the river by the getaway driver after he was picked up and interrogated the next day.

Sold up the garden path 

To be humiliated by your opponent in an activity of competitive nature, or to be conned or outsmarted by something/someone.
If one was to beat another at a sport such as pool, and said person beat the other by "8-balling" him, then he could've been said to have been "sold up the garden path" by the victor.

If one was to have bought something for £400 that could normally have been purchased for a fraction of the price, he could also have been said to have been "sold up the garden path".
well known from south park
rednecks get angrry that future folk took there jobs so they yell
They took ouare jerbs!
Them future folk took ouare jerbs!
jerb by Jimberley Kim April 7, 2005
Word of the Day on May 22, 2026
An Irish phrase meaning shit, derived from ass
(Not to be confused with the literal description of one's buttocks)
"Did you hear the song Aylek$ dropped?"
"Hardly. Her music is absolute cheeks."

"My boyfriend say LaFlame is cheeks."
"Tell your boyfriend I said it's his mixtape that's cheeks."
Cheeks by thecartisan April 26, 2020
Word of the Day on May 21, 2026