Results for “take the michael”

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take flight
phrase

Throw hands first, ask questions never.

#prison#fighting#jail#inmate
take in front
phrase

To act first before trouble reaches you

#caribbean#patois#phrase#strategy
take him off the dribble
phrase

To beat a defender by dribbling past him

#sports#offense#dribbling
take the mickey
verb

To mock or tease; 'take the mick'.

#cockney#london#british#rhyming
take your show on the road
phrase

To get in trouble and be shipped to another prison.

#prison#criminal#transfer#conflict
take for a ride
verb

To drive someone to a remote spot to murder them.

#prison#criminal#murder#historical
take a powder
verb

To leave suddenly; to flee or disappear.

#prison#criminal#escape#flee
take a fall
verb

To be arrested or convicted, esp. in another's place.

#prison#criminal#arrest#betrayal
Take A Chill Pill
phrase

A snappy way to tell someone to calm down and stop overreacting.

#80s#american#pop
retake
noun

Taking back a bombsite the enemy already grabbed and planted on.

#csgo#valorant#fps#tactical
stake
verb, noun

Gambling items or gold against another player in a duel.

#osrs#gambling#duel#pvp
hot take
noun

A short, deliberately provocative opinion fired off for reaction.

#twitter#discourse#opinion
spicy take
noun

A hot take with extra hot sauce — flagged in advance as controversial.

#twitter#discourse#opinion
L take
noun

An opinion so bad it's a loss the moment it's posted.

#twitter#discourse#opinion#dunk
DMCA takedown
noun

Legal notice creators file to scrub leaked content off pirate sites.

#sex-work#onlyfans#creator#legal
no kit
phrase

Defusing the bomb without a defuse kit, which takes longer.

#cs2#defuse#clutch#fps
TTK
noun

Time to kill — how long it takes to drop a target.

#mmo#fps#dps
vuln stack
noun

A vulnerability debuff that makes you take more damage the more it stacks.

#ffxiv#debuff#mechanics
roulette
noun

Queue for a random instance and take whatever the game throws at you.

#ffxiv#queue#daily#mmo
Hitstun
noun

The frames after getting hit where you can't do anything but take it.

#fighting games#combos#frame data#fgc
Zero-to-death
noun

A single combo that takes someone from full health to KO with no escape.

#fighting games#combos#smash#fgc
icl
phrase

I can't lie — bracing you for an honest take.

#tiktok#gen-z#comments#abbreviation
chronically online
adjective

So deep in internet culture your takes no longer make sense to humans outside it.

#twitter#tiktok#behaviour#insult
galaxy brain
noun

Sarcastic praise for a take so contrarian it loops back around to stupid.

#twitter#meme#discourse#sarcasm
and I took that personally
phrase

Dramatic comeback line lifted from Michael Jordan's documentary, deployed for petty grudges.

#twitter#meme#sports#format
OK boomer
phrase

Dismissive Gen-Z sign-off for an out-of-touch older person's take.

#tiktok#twitter#gen-z#generations
soyjak
noun

Open-mouthed wojak edit posted to mock another user's take as nerdy or pathetically excitable.

#imageboard#discord#reaction#wojak
slow burn
noun phrase

A romance that takes its sweet time getting going.

#booktok#fanfic#tropes#romance
sockpuppet
noun

A fake secondary account used to prop up your own takes or sneak past a ban.

#reddit#accounts#moderation#deception
gan canny
phrase

Geordie for take it easy, go carefully.

#geordie#newcastle#north-east#british
liberty
noun

Something outrageously unfair. A piss-take.

#geordie#north-east#british#complaint
Cadbury's Flake
noun

Cockney rhyming slang for a mistake.

#cockney#london#rhyming-slang#british
half and half
noun

Half chips, half rice — the Welsh takeaway carb stack.

#welsh#wales#cardiff#food
mullered
adjective

Wrecked drunk — or beaten senseless. Take your pick.

#irish#drunk#british#hiberno-english
sap
noun

A soft fool — gullible, naive, easily taken in.

#irish#british#insult#fool
funk hole
noun

A dugout or shelter used to take cover from incoming fire.

#military#wwi#british-army#slang
Large car
noun phrase

A classic long-hood conventional semi — the kind that takes up real estate.

#trucker#cb-radio#owner-operator#rig
Greenmail
noun

Buy a big stake, threaten a takeover, then sell it back to the target at a premium.

#finance#wall-street#m&a#corporate-raid
Poison pill
noun

Defensive trick that floods the market with cheap shares to choke a hostile takeover.

#finance#wall-street#m-and-a#corporate-law
Staggered board
noun

Board structure where only a slice of directors is up for election each year, making takeovers a slog.

#finance#wall-street#corporate-governance#m-and-a