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Any of various methods of descending a rope using controlled friction.
Please do not rappel unless there is no convenient alternative. At most crags it's easy to walk or scramble down.
rappel by Bole July 3, 2008
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Sounds like Apple but it’s the rappel .... the art of sliding down towers or Columns during Turnaround without stopping or getting caught.
Chad it’s almost lunch screw that ladder just rappel that shit down here!!!!
Rappel by Broke back ;))) August 2, 2019

urban rappel 

(verb) To rappel from a building, monument, or any other anthropogenic urban structure. Some people do this professionally, cleaning parts that can't be reached any other way and doing other stuff of the sort, while others just freak out.
-So basically you're saying he mountaineers for a job?
-Nah, man, he URBAN RAPPELS.
urban rappel by hiromu October 27, 2008

Swedish rappel 

While normal rappel is used for moving from a high position to a lower position (e.g. from bridge to valley bottom) in a swift but orderly manner, Swedish rappel is a faster and more aggressive method used in order to achieve the same result.

In order to perform a Swedish rappel, one must:
1. Acquire a length of rope (e.g. two feet)
2. Move to place where Swedish rappel is to be performed
3. Hold one end of rope in hand, let the other end dangle free.
4. Jump
Sven: "Man, that guy is annoying"
Erik: "Lets give him a Swedish rappel!"
Swedish rappel by swenor June 21, 2011

rappelling Aussie style 

To rappel facing the ground, as Australians do.
I might have gone rappelling Aussie style if I did it the regular way 10 or 12 times!!

Augusta Rappers 

Artists who help build/ bring exposure to a local area that haven't broken a main stream level. Someone who creates, performs and releases music either independently or through a record label. The commitment level of a music artist is extreme, living sometimes a nomadic and taxing lifestyle and spending long days and nights in the studio recording music.
Augusta rappers are artists from Augusta Georgia that shed light on the city with there plateform.
Augusta Rappers by Michael Saponara November 11, 2019

Aspiring Rapper 

North American euphemism for a member of the urban criminal class. This unusual occupation is usually mentioned in conjunction with the subject either being slain or being taken into custody for a violent or property-related crime. A relative of the subject usually points out that the subjects demise or incarceration comes at an extremely inopportune moment, ocurring just as they subject was "turning they(sic) life around."
Special K Icey Eight had a checkered past, but his mother insisted he was a "good boy" who was just turning his life around, when the aspiring rapper was gunned down by a homeowner after breaking into the house via the kitchen window.
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West Midlands slang word for rockers, bikers, greasers etc. In the late 1980s it was used by the UK music press to refer to a specific scene centered around the bands Pop Will Eat Itself and Crazyhead. The term never found favour with readers of 'the inkies' (Sounds, Melody Maker and the still extant NME) and was soon dropped. Now often used in predominantly working-class areas of the midlands and the north to mean someone who listens to rock-derived music and/or dresses in a manner that suggests they affiliate themselves with rock music of some kind.
Some grebo passed with Sabbath playing on his stereo.
The Poppies are at no. 17? God, a grebo band in the charts!
They're playing nu-metal now, bloody grebos!
grebo by cactuscat September 15, 2006
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TikTok Farlands

TikTok Farlands is a term to refer to videos that you see after scrolling for a long time. These videos can potentially be disturbing, or weird. Said videos can also have low likes, or low comments.
“I reached the TikTok Farlands bro”
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mormon assault vehicle

another term for a station wagon, mini-van, or any other kind of vehicle that is targeted at the "family" demographic(also M.A.V.)
"Tactical advantages aside, the M.A.V. is top of the line for the holy warrior troop transport manufactured by the Church of Latter Day Saints Military Industrial Complex. Also great for family trips...to heathen lands."
mormon assault vehicle by KVRX January 10, 2005
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Shakira Law 

A version of "Sharia Law" that Reform Ltd supporters tend to refer to, often by mistake.
Richard Tice of Reform now lives in Dubai, under Shakira Law, although telling Brits that we should worry about it
Shakira Law by Reformltd February 16, 2025
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Overstand 

To understand a topic or statement to the highest extent.
Leroy, after being told the tenth time by his sister, did overstand her idea of robbing the 7-11.
Overstand by Elf Eater March 23, 2003
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