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two tugs on a roosack 

An Australian saying introduced late 2000's, derived from a reasonably well known saying from across the ditch: "two shakes of a lambs tail".

Used as a measure of time - in the not too distant future.
Mate 1: You got a minit mate?
Mate 2: True blue mate, I'll be there in two tugs on a roosack mate.
Related Words
Slang for death, or dead. From the Arsenal FC player, who gained iconic status after dying from minor injuries sustained throughout the 2007/8 season.
"Is Josh coming tonight?"

"No, he's been rosickyed"

or:

"Is Josh coming tonight?"

"No, he's with rosicky now"
Rosicky by bernie_arsenal1991 February 23, 2009

roomsick 

The sickness you get when you are away from your own room
I feel roomsick
roomsick by D.Joker May 16, 2014

roosikas 

"wo dekh roosikas aaya"
"rukh jaldi se drink chupa deta hun warna glass tut jayega"
roosikas by GamerGuy434 January 2, 2022

🤡🫵🏻

How to say "you're an idiot/clown" using only emojis.
Person 1: Insert completely incorrect and/or idiotic statement here
Person 2: 🤡🫵🏻
Word of the Day on June 1, 2026
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)
fogey by Petyush September 14, 2005
Word of the Day on May 31, 2026