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To be excessively drunk or wasted onboard a boat.
Bro let's go out on the lake and get completely hoisted!
Hoisted by Baotmn June 15, 2022
To get roasted so bad it’s hilarious. To get raised up and ridiculed so bad it becomes funny.
That fool got hoisted after he was caught on a zoom call butt naked and it went viral.

He was gettin hoisted after he talked shit and then got knocked out in the first round.
Hoisted by Super Science October 11, 2023

Hoisted by my own petard

To be foiled by your own advantage(i.e., explosives prematurely explode).

The history of the phrase comes from the uses of a petard in a seige (a petard is a volitile early explosive capable of bringing down castle walls). To be hoisted is to be lifted or sent up, which is generally what would happen to you if you were near a petard when it goes off (and that's if you got off lucky).

The term, "Hoisted on my own petard" is incorrect (unless of course you were pulled up while on a petard, but that'd be clinicly stupid) in that the meaning is altered. This bastardization is built upon the assumtion that a petard is a spear.
Sergeant- "Did you plant all the claymores Corporal Johnson?"
Corporal- "Yes sir."
Sergeant- "Where did you plant them."
Corporal- *Looks around shiftily* "Ummmm..."
Sergeant- "You don't know do you?"
Corporal- "No."
Sergeant- "Hoisted by my own petard."

Synonym- see clusterfuck

Hoisted by your own Piccard 

When your own star Star-Trek related actions hurt you in some way.
Bill: The date was going great until I mentioned I like Star-Trek
Jeff: It appears you have been hoisted by your own Piccard.

Hoisted by my own re'tard 

Thwarted by one's own stupidity.
I do the same thing every week, expecting a different result. I'm continually hoisted by my own re'tard.

hoisted sail

spread a sail or sails.
As the wind rose up, the crew hurriedly hoisted sail and started off over the wide sea.
hoisted sail by Arminkshipper January 29, 2026
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So Joe where are you taking the kids for spring break vacation? We are going on an oblication to Boca to visit my mother-in-law.
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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.

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I watched "Smallville" on Netflix the other day. Dude, it was ten seasons of filler before he finally flew! Major Surf Dracula Syndrome!
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Northstarring

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.
Northstarring by Light Bearer October 22, 2026
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