The process by which an ostensibly detrimental process is allowed to finish on the slim chance that it results in an unexpected benefit. Originates in platform games such as Super Mario Bros.
!@#$%^&*() Yeet some useless nursery rhyme British soldiers made up to make fun of American ones too bad America won but American toddlers love it for some reason Yeet
Weird guy: Yankee Doodle Went to Town, Riding on a Pony, Stuck a feather in his hair and called it Macoroani
Me: What the heck is Macoroani
when you're holding up your phone and making faces at it, as though you are taking a selfie, but you're really taking a picture of the person across from you or the wall or anything else that seems interesting but you don't want to be caught dead taking a picture of.
This action is often made more convincing by wiggling the eyebrows or opening the mouth, to pretend you're trying to get a Snapchat filter to work.