An expression used when someone fails to execute a task that should be well within their skill level. Typically heard from parents at sporting events.

Nice try! After a U15 soccer player fails to score a goal from close range or an unguarded (open) net.

Or When a High School softball/baseball player allows a fly ball to fall (or bounce) out of their glove.

Or When an uncovered receiver drops a well thrown ball in the end zone.

Nice try! by Sparkurton June 10, 2015

Nice try, Samurai

When you are still unimpressed with someone’s best try, despite the fact that they did their best, but acknowledging that they did put their heart to it.

The expression is believed to have originated from an Italian immigrant in Malta in the early 21st century.

A guy tries all his slickest moves to get a hot girl to bed, but she’s not having it, so she says “nice try, Samurai”

Nice try, Samurai by dfnslvtr May 21, 2023

Nice try RCMP

When someone tries to get information about your firearms in Canada for unknown reasons.

Potential RCMP" hey guys heres a useful tool to catalog your firearms"

User " nice try RCMP "

Nice try RCMP by NotTheRCMP March 13, 2017

Nice try guy

Sarcastically used to make fun of someone

haha, nice try guy

Nice try guy by dsgfgfsgsfgcvg August 1, 2020

nice try Diddy

Following several accusations against rapper Sean (P. Diddy) Combs, this comment is used on various ads and posts to make fun of the fact that P. Diddy has ventured into many unrelated enterprises.

It is a way of saying “Nice try diddy you’re not taking my money”.

*Sees an ad for shaving cream on IG*

Me: “Nice try Diddy”

nice try Diddy by DylTheDiver July 9, 2024

Concrete cowboy

A guy who thinks he's a country kinda guy, but in reality lives a comfortable city / suburban life.

Eugene: Look at that dude in the cowboy hat!
Todd: He's just a concrete cowboy.

Concrete cowboy by EugeneJohnson42000 March 16, 2024

Word of the Day on September 20, 2026

hobo loko

any hard liquor that is cheap & potent.. eg. relska, popov, potters, evan williams, kamchatka, fireball, rumpleminze, southern comfort, everclear

hey let's get a drink of that?

go ahead
*takes drink* ugh wtf is that?

everclear & bepsi
fucking hobo loko eeessshh

hobo loko by d i z k o 2 0 8 September 14, 2026

Word of the Day on September 19, 2026

God Shot

A chance happening with profound meaning, an unexpected blessing, a "sign".

Dr. Drew on Celebrity Rehab said "All of a sudden what had been just another Hollywood proposal became for him an unexpected blessing, an opportunity for growth. In drug recovery language, that's called a "God shot."

God Shot by Imogen1564 February 25, 2011

Word of the Day on September 18, 2026

city chicken

A food native to Pittsburgh/Western Pennsylvania in which cubes of pork and/or veal are put on a short, wooden skewer, breaded, then baked and/or fried.

I've heard that city chicken originated during the Great Depression, when folks didn't have enough money to buy full cuts of meat, so they assembled meat scraps on a wooden skewer, creating a make-shift drumstick. Hence the name.

Are yinz havin' city chicken for dinner?

city chicken by TRF August 31, 2006

Word of the Day on September 17, 2026

Is that cake?

Another way to say is this fake? Like the show real or cake

“Slayyyter just announced another album last night”
“No way, is that cake?”
“Yeah whoops this isn’t real”

Is that cake? by Sexyyred September 15, 2026

Word of the Day on September 16, 2026