A competition where two people insult each other continously; the first person to back down, hesitate etc is the loser.
The usual insults revolve around physical flaws (look at yaw teeth, dey so yellow i don' needa put a light on at night) and clothing (yo, man, what make yaw sneakers?)
Thought to have started in Washington D.C. but there are variations all over the world, a particularly famous concentration being among young black people in London.
geeky schoolkid who wants to appear "with it": come on, man, there's a jone fest behind the gym building!
all geeky schoolkids who want to appear "with it" race around to the gym building, where a black stain has already gathered.
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)