“Sharktooth” (verb) -- adults intentionally creating a positive experience or memory for young children.
Origin: While hunting together for shark teeth at the beach, parents would covertly drop one or more pre-purchased shark teeth in a child’s path, thus ensuring that the child experiences the joy of a successful hunt within their limited attention span. When searching for seashells, it may also be called “shell-shilling.”
Alternatively, as ammunition for ungrateful adults to declare to their well-intentioned parents that their entire childhood was a lie.
“I didn’t really catch that fish in preschool? You put it on my hook when I wasn’t looking? You sharktoothed me!”
An adjective that means unfortunate or irritating, often used when one is trying to avoid profanity. It is an alternative to just saying “shucks” as an exclamation.
Your friend: “Man, this is shuckworthy. First my dog dies, and now I got fired? What should I do?”
You: “That sure is shuckworthy, in fact one of the most shuckworthy things I’ve ever heard. I recommend trying a therapist.”
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.
FRIEND A: "Did you just take a stealthie of me?"
FRIEND B (turning phone around): "no I was just using snapchat's new filter, see?"