n. the use of text messages to have a private discussion with another person while in a group. usually used to discuss or insult another member of the group in real time without their knowledge.
the subtlety of this act is easily thwarted by knowing glances and shared spontaneous laughter.
texter 1: dude, joe's b.o. is heinous today.
texter 2: i know, right? i thought i was the only one who noticed it
texter 1: good thing for text-lepathy
The act of understanding, or mentally hearing in one's mind, the words or implication of a brother(brotha, bro, broski, brocephus, broseidon) even if not in the immediate vicinity.
"yeah buddy"
"Did you say it like yeeeeeah buddy?"
"Yup"
"Whoa..... bro-lepathy"
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)