scraping the barrel

To go the extra length or to really milk a situation (see milking) To push something to the limit. Usually the terms is used in times of distress or in times of need.

My local football club just signed a new player, looks like they are really scraping the barrel with the players at the moment.

scraping the barrel by Paul3o3 August 5, 2011

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scraping the barrel

8th song in the album "Old Souls", the second full-length album released by the australian symphonic deathcore band "Make Them Suffer". It's the album's heaviest song.

Jared: Hey, dude. Have you ever listened to the song Scraping the Barrel, by Make Them Suffer?
Leo: Yeah, man! That song is sick as hell!

scraping the barrel by IamTheOneBADINGA March 2, 2017

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scraping the bottom of the barrel

1. To get stuck with the very last pick or settle for something of extremely low quality.

2. Having run out of all other good ideas, to settle for an extremely low quality, crappy, or poor idea.

Did you hear about "The Smurfs"? Hollywood must really be scraping the bottom of the barrel with that movie.

scraping the bottom of the barrel by Aleitheia August 14, 2011

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bang a you-ee

of Massachusetts orig. "to make a u-turn"

hey, we missed the bar, bang a you-ee

bang a you-ee by Pistolero Pierro May 4, 2008

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Fleg

The word 'flag' as pronounced by people with thick Belfast accents. The term is a perfect encapsulation of the disproportionate and overblown reaction to the removal of the Union Jack (as in 'de fleg') from above City Hall in Belfast. Where previously it had flown for 365 days per year, it is now flown on 17 designated days of the year - in line with many other British cities.

The event caused a portion of the Protestant community ('fleggers') to make international pricks of themselves as they proceeded to wreck the fucking place, claiming it was another erosion of a 'British' identity they perceive to have been under attack since the horrifying spectre of equality reared its head in Northern Ireland.

The word 'fleg' - and indeed 'fleggers' - fittingly describes a section of humanity unconcerned with knowledge, reality or the vagaries of the English language. Like America's tea-baggers they are ruled by instinct, fear and paranoia with a side dish of rampant bigotry and startling ignorance of the world around them.

"Wat de fuck like! The taigs got de fleg took down! Let's wreck de fuckin place! No surrender!"

"De fleg has been took down! Before ye know it there'll be a united Ireland! Attack Short Strand! God Save The Queen!"

Fleg by OnionFleg August 9, 2013

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Skeef

To take something small, that doesn't quite qualify as a theft. Probably from the Danish "skæv" or the Dutch "scheef", both of which are pronounced similarly, meaning "askew, or not quite right'. To change an item's ownership without permission, but only something small and of little worth.

"I skeefed an apple off the neighbor's tree." "I skeefed some chips outta your bag when you looked away." "Don't skeef my chair when I go to the bathroom."

Skeef by kachinaflonk July 16, 2026

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Hair spider

A tight, tangled knot of loose hair and lint that forms inside clothing during the clothes dryer cycle. It typically hides inside garments, causing an annoying lump or a phantom tickling sensation against the skin until it is found or falls out onto the floor during folding.

I was folding my clothes and a huge hair spider fell out onto my hand

Hair spider by Kmorsels July 15, 2026

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