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If you stan a musician or celebrity you're a big fan. A person like that is also called Stan. "To stan" is the verb for being a Stan. You're obsessed witha certain celebrity and like them very much. You know almost everything about them and give other fans (who are not stans) information or help them because you know more than the maority of the fandom.

It is also used to simply say that you really like an artist.

There are two different kinds of stans, soft stans and hard stans
- "Do you know EXO?"
- "Yes, I stan them."

- "I stan 24K."

-"Do you stan them?"

-"You have to stan VIXX! They're the most talented group ever!"

- "Their new song is so dope, I think I gotta stan them."
to stan by koi456 November 25, 2017
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Don't Have a leg to stand on

Him: i will tell your dad what u did.
Her: i don't care. You don't have a leg to stand on.
Him: oh! Fuck you!

Going to Stanford

Generally used to describe urination; however, "going to Stanford" is increasingly popular as a euphemism for defecation.

Origin: Conceived as a method to simultaneously mock the concept of school rivalry and show distaste for opponents of increasing social welfare, "going to Stanford" received pop culture status after acts bearing its name were committed at the university's graduate school of business in 2007.
"Sometimes I think kidney stones are God's punishment for those who take going to Stanford for granted."
Going to Stanford by treehuggerno1 January 6, 2008

to stanley 

To stanley something: Copy something and claim it as your own by changing the author's name.
Person #1: That's a nice piece of code. Did you stanley it?
Person #2: No. Look, my name is written there.
Person #1: I've written the exact same code years ago. It's not cool to stanley other people's work.

Person #1: Did you see his new code?

Person #2: Yes, I've heard he stanleyed it from someone's Github.
to stanley by Y4kuzi December 20, 2019

stand by to stand by 

A military term used for to wait for an uncertain amount of time.
Well Captain didn't say when we will get liberty so stand by to stand by.

Bitch to stand on 

When one girl uses another girl to do her bitching for her.
My sister doesn't have a bitch to stand on.
Bitch to stand on by Selena22 June 28, 2014

go to stanford university 

a nice way to say stfu without cursing
person 1 and 2: *talking really loudly*
person 3: why dont you both go to stanford university?
person 1 and 2: haha, very funny....wait what....fuck u.
person 3: hehehe
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