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“ Donnybrook was a town in Ireland (now a district of Dublin) which was home to the Donnybrook Fair. That event became legendary for alcohol consumption and subsequent fist fights. ”

“This is military slang meaning ‘all good.’ It comes from how they used to measure radio signal (1) strength and (2) clarity on a scale of 1 to 5. So, a strong signal that was distorted would be ‘five-by-one’ and a weak, clear signal would be ‘one-by-five.’ A strong clear signal would be…”

“Everyone knows what this means, but no one is really sure of the etymology. The word ‘high’ is easy, in the sense that it just amplifies what comes after it (‘high fashion,’ ‘high crime’). But what does ‘jinks’ mean? It was a dice game at one time, and it’s been used as slang to mean ‘to move…”

“This is an informal geographic term – it seems to be slang or patois for ‘hollow,’ but some resources reject that and claim it has a definition all its own. It’s an Appalachian term for valley. The University of South Carolina defines it as: A small, sheltered valley that usually but not…”

“ A British idiom that means teasing or joking. To ‘take the piss’ is to joke around, to ‘take the piss out of someone’ is to tease them. It’s the equivalent of the American phrase ‘mess with’ or ‘screw round with.’ There are many conflicting stories of its origin. ”

“A slang word that’s very nebulous. It’s been defined, then co-opted by others. When used, you have to look at context, because different people use it to mean very different things. In today’s general slang environment, ‘based’ means to be true to yourself and not care what other people think….”

“It means someone who is uninteresting, often due to only enjoying mainstream hobbies and interests. Some choice quotes from the Urban Dictionary : […] A person who has failed to develop their own personal tastes and therefore has adopted boring, conformist, tastes […] A person that follows the…”