# Phrases used in popular culture that you don't know the definition of(explanations) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 27, 2003, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phrases-used-in-popular-culture-that-you-dont-know-the-definition-of-explanations/184877 "2003-06-27T23:09:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 8
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2003, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phrases-used-in-popular-culture-that-you-dont-know-the-definition-of-explanations/184877/141 "2003-07-27T19:49:30Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Badtz Maru \* > \*\*I’ve most often heard the term ‘cock blocker’ referred to the wiser, often older, women who thwart the efforts of those who are trying to seduce their more innocent female acquaintances. \*\* Down here all the fellas I know consider the primary meaning of cockblocking to be when you’re talking to a girl at a party with the clear intent to knock boots, and your buddy comes up and goes “So how’s that rash clearing up?”… That all your base techno mix was absolutely fucking fantastic. I need a copy of the picture of the pack of cigs with “all your base…” as the surgeon general’s warning, if anyone knows where to find a still version. Oh, and I agree that Stuart Scott was the one who popularized boo-yah. I think he might also be responsible for “and one”, referring to basketball and getting the point for the free throw after scoring and drawing a foul. ---
**Author:** ![furryman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/furryman/32/99_2.png) [@furryman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/furryman)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2003, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phrases-used-in-popular-culture-that-you-dont-know-the-definition-of-explanations/184877/142 "2003-07-28T19:09:50Z")
What exactly does “home boy” mean? Is it a compliment or an insult? ---
**Author:** ![Lamia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Lamia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamia)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2003, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phrases-used-in-popular-culture-that-you-dont-know-the-definition-of-explanations/184877/143 "2003-07-28T19:54:04Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by furryman \* > \*\*What exactly does “home boy” mean? Is it a compliment or an insult? \*\* A “homeboy” is a boy from your home – that is, a friend from the neighborhood (“hood”) where you live. The term may also be used by one gang member to refer to another member of the same gang. Either way it’s generally a good thing to be someone’s homie: “Don’t mention it man, you’re my homeboy!” However, if you didn’t grow up using the term I’d avoid it, unless you’re going for laughs. Due to its association with urban African-American youth and street gangs, the term is sometimes used as a sarcastic insult for either white kids why try to imitate urban African-American youths or urban African-American youths themselves. “Hey homeboy, nice boxers! Why don’t you pull up your pants?” ---
**Author:** ![Gravity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gravity/32/14322_2.png) [@Gravity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gravity)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2003, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phrases-used-in-popular-culture-that-you-dont-know-the-definition-of-explanations/184877/144 "2003-07-28T19:54:11Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by TeaRoses \* > \*\*Here’s two I’ve been dying to ask about… > > twink – seen in posts on this board, both of which had to do with homosexuality topics? > > chanslash – seen in fanfic summaries. Yes, I know what slash is, but I looked this word up in whole list on an adult fanfic site and couldn’t find it. (no, it’s not going to shock me) \*\* **Badtz** covered twink, so here’s chanslash. Chanslash is slash fiction in which one of the characters depicted in the sexual situation is under the age of consent. Very closely realated to hierarchal slash or fic, where the two people in a sexual situation are involved in an unequal power relationship, such as padawan and master, or lord and butler or something. ---
**Author:** ![PoorYorick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ecccb3/32.png) [@PoorYorick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PoorYorick)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2003, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phrases-used-in-popular-culture-that-you-dont-know-the-definition-of-explanations/184877/145 "2003-07-28T20:33:45Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by elfkin477 \* > \*\*I was under the impression that **Boo** , at least in hip-hop/rap songs, was a shortened version of another not-so-nice slur against black people: Jiggaboo. Or have songs like “jigga my nigga” given me the wrong impression? \*\* I’d never heard this before I moved to south Louisiana. As others have said, “Boo” is used as a term of endearment or affection, much like “Che’” (that is, short form of “Cheri”). Waitresses, for example, will use it instead of “Honey” or “Darling:” “You’re orders comin’ right out, Boo.” I’m not sure what the derivation is. ---
**Author:** ![Jadis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/87869e/32.png) [@Jadis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jadis)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2003, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phrases-used-in-popular-culture-that-you-dont-know-the-definition-of-explanations/184877/146 "2003-07-28T20:44:41Z")
**pseudotriton ruber ruber** , the origin of “This one time, at band camp?” is pretty funny, but it’s sort of a spoiler for American Pie (which is why **paulberserker** didn’t elaborate on what it really means), so you can read the spoiler below if you still wanna know: The quote is repeated often by a geeky character played by Alyson Hannigan, it’s her lead-in to pretty much every contribution she makes in every conversation she’s in. The funny part is that she’s constantly yammering about her geeky band camp stuff to the main character and he sort of tunes her out…until this one time, they’re alone and she blurts out “This one time, at band camp…I stuck my flute in my pussy!” and the guy is totally flummoxed. He’d considered her to be such a geek, and here she has more sexual experience than he does. ---
**Author:** ![PoorYorick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ecccb3/32.png) [@PoorYorick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PoorYorick)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2003, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phrases-used-in-popular-culture-that-you-dont-know-the-definition-of-explanations/184877/147 "2003-07-28T21:01:17Z")
> [@](#): > > **"You’re orders comin’ right out, Boo."** Darn, and this is one of my pet peeves. “_Your_ order’s . . .!” ---
**Author:** ![TeaRoses](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c37758/32.png) [@TeaRoses](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TeaRoses)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2003, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phrases-used-in-popular-culture-that-you-dont-know-the-definition-of-explanations/184877/148 "2003-07-28T21:02:24Z")
Thanks very much to Badtz and Gravity. Two more questions if I may: Does hierarchal apply to m/f fics also, or is that such an unequal power base already that it doesn’t? (If it does apply I’m writing a couple right now, so I really would like to know) Also… padawan? I realize it’s not contemporary slang, but an online dictionary failed to turn that one up. ---
**Author:** ![Gravity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gravity/32/14322_2.png) [@Gravity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gravity)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2003, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phrases-used-in-popular-culture-that-you-dont-know-the-definition-of-explanations/184877/149 "2003-07-28T21:11:17Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by TeaRoses \* > \*\*Does hierarchal apply to m/f fics also, or is that such an unequal power base already that it doesn’t? (If it does apply I’m writing a couple right now, so I really would like to know) > > Also… padawan? I realize it’s not contemporary slang, but an online dictionary failed to turn that one up. \*\* I would say that it would not apply. Hierarchal is a pretty specific genre - generally the authors set out to play on the inequality as a large part of the story, similar to a n/c or coercion tag. Padawan is what Jedi knights from Star Wars call their aprentices. ---
**Author:** ![vibrotronica](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/a9a28c/32.png) [@vibrotronica](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vibrotronica)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2003, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phrases-used-in-popular-culture-that-you-dont-know-the-definition-of-explanations/184877/150 "2003-07-28T22:11:56Z")
> [@](#): > > ‘you’re the bomb!’ “The bomb” is the atomic bomb–the ultimate weapon. Once again, the Living Funk Master George Clinton may be the popularizer here. In “P-Funk (Wants to Get Funked Up),” the opening track to his 1976 album _Mothership Connection_, he describes his music as “P-Funk, uncut funk, **the bomb** ”, thus implying that Parliment’s brand of funk was the absolute best funk ever, end of story. Therefore, “you’re the bomb” is a compliment usually given when someone has done something good. example: Matt: “Hey Joe, here’s your coffee.” Joe: “Thanks, man, did you remember to get the vanilla non-dairy creamer?” Matt: “Yes” Joe: “You’re the bomb!” ---
**Author:** ![TeaRoses](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c37758/32.png) [@TeaRoses](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TeaRoses)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2003, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phrases-used-in-popular-culture-that-you-dont-know-the-definition-of-explanations/184877/151 "2003-07-28T23:50:05Z")
> [@](#): > > similar to a n/c or coercion tag. :smack: That should have been obvious to me. Thanks. And thanks for not laughing at me about padawan… ---
**Author:** ![Cyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a88e4f/32.png) [@Cyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cyn)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2003, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phrases-used-in-popular-culture-that-you-dont-know-the-definition-of-explanations/184877/152 "2003-07-29T00:19:13Z")
Who’s your Daddy? The central male authority figure as a transference of power/ dominance, often but not always sexual. A rhetorical question. Example: Jill and Jack are experiencing a romantic moment. Jill: I love it when you do that. Jack: Who’s you Daddy? Example: Jack and Bob are playing golf. Jack sinks a looooong putt, turns to Bob and says “Who’s your Daddy?” ---
**Author:** ![TeaRoses](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c37758/32.png) [@TeaRoses](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TeaRoses)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2003, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phrases-used-in-popular-culture-that-you-dont-know-the-definition-of-explanations/184877/153 "2003-07-29T00:54:52Z")
One more, please… “I’m crushing your head” said in a Scottish accent. I tried googling it and found references to a Flash error and a comedy sketch, with no way to find out what came first and what’s with the Scottish accent. No hits on the search engine here either. I ran into it in a rather dated story (OK, OK, a fanfic) which should have had nothing to do with a Scottish accent… sounds like some joke has passed me by yet again. ---
**Author:** ![pseudotriton\_ruber\_ruber](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a9a28c/32.png) [@pseudotriton\_ruber\_ruber](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pseudotriton_ruber_ruber)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2003, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phrases-used-in-popular-culture-that-you-dont-know-the-definition-of-explanations/184877/154 "2003-07-29T01:31:09Z")
Thanks, your majesty. Saves me the trouble of seeing a movie I prolly would have been able to keep avoiding for years. ---
**Author:** ![SmackFu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/53a042/32.png) [@SmackFu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SmackFu)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2003, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phrases-used-in-popular-culture-that-you-dont-know-the-definition-of-explanations/184877/155 "2003-07-29T01:42:52Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by TeaRoses \* > **"I’m crushing your head" said in a Scottish accent.** It’s from an old Kids in the Hall comedy sketch. This loser guy privately takes out his aggression on people who’ve wronged him by holding up his hand with the index finger and thumb in a pinching manner, sighting their heads from afar, and “crushing their head”. ---
**Author:** ![cajela](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9de0a6/32.png) [@cajela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cajela)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2003, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phrases-used-in-popular-culture-that-you-dont-know-the-definition-of-explanations/184877/156 "2003-07-29T02:04:20Z")
w00t! The celebratoriness of this comes from it being a 'leet and slightly cute form of “root”. If you have root, then you have won. You have the power. The “root” user on a unix system is the administrator who has total control. Getting root on someone else’s system, preferably a really ineresting one, is what a hacker (cracker) strives for. For all the geekspeak you could possibly want, together with most of its derivation, try the jargon file at [http://catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/index.html](http://catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/index.html) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phrases-used-in-popular-culture-that-you-dont-know-the-definition-of-explanations/184877.md?page=7)