The Crip Walk, a dance originally associated with the Crips gang in Los Angeles, involving intricate foot movements that spell out letters or signals. What started as gang communication became a mainstream hip-hop dance move, though doing it in the wrong neighborhood can still get you in serious trouble. Cultural appropriation meets actual danger.

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Snake Sunday

A self-proclaimed holiday celebrated the Sunday before St. Patrick's Day, ostensibly to honor St. Patrick but really just an excuse to recover from weekend drinking and do it all over again. Group yelling of 'SNAKE SUNDAY!' is mandatory.

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underly

The grammatically questionable but somehow intuitive opposite of 'overly,' meaning insufficiently or less than something should be. It's one of those made-up words that sounds wrong but feels so right that you'll find yourself using it despite your English teacher's ghost weeping softly. Language evolution in real time, folks.

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