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[kaysho]

Slang and jargon exist because there are some things that it's just no fun, or not proper, to talk about using nice, "normal" language.  They are also very good at defining your group and identifying who's a member and who isn't: like the Freemasons' secret handshakes, knowing the jargon makes you either "in" or "out" on sight without having to do

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[toob]

Oh, Kaysho... what would you do with a large straight?

[kaysho]

Oops, did I accidentally leave that door wide open? :)

[wolffit]

He would turn it gay.

[chythar]

You know, a Google search on "yahtzee slang" has this journal as #7.

[kaysho]

Man, Google is insanely fast ...

Although since I linked to nothing from here and wasn't all that specific in the post, this should be a referential dead-end. :)

[wolffit]

FYI, even though Freemasons have secret handshakes, we still do a careful examination before letting a Mason sit in Lodge with us. Just knowing the handshake isn't enough.

[kaysho]

Bah, and here I was hoping I could get somewhere with my Captain America decoder ring ... :)

[rattuskid]

Does this careful examination involve getting drunk?

[ext_227120]

I must have a bad pedigree. I haven't encountered this particular perversion of the language until now.

"Yahtzee" is in fact a trademark (originally Lowe, then Milton Bradley, now Hasbro.) I wonder what the holders will think of this development?

[kaysho]

I hadn't seen it before two days ago and now have seen it something like half a dozen times since. I'm sure six weeks from now it'll be passé. :)

For that matter, it could be a tiny in-group thing that is confined just to the group I tend to hang with ... who knows?

I'd treat it as the equivalent of "Bingo!", as something one exclaims at a moment of accomplishment that got carried over to different accomplishments than the original one. :)

[ext_227120]

According to the Urban Dictionary, at least if you read multiple entries, the consensus is fairly specific about the action and gestures that represent it. My guess it's more widespread than that. The connection to Yahtzee(tm) is apparent in the fist-shaking similarity to shaking a dice cup.

As defined there, it's highly pejorative, and implies various insults to both the speaker and the one addressed. Not to be used casually, I think.

[kaysho]

I tend to take Urban Dictionary with a little salt, since most definitions there seem to be far nastier in tone than the general usage, and many look a lot like people just making stuff up because they can, or because they don't really know what they're talking about but know there's no one there to stop them. Same thing with Yahoo Answers, and ... frankly, most of the Internet. :)

[wolffit]

So um. What is it slang for?

[ext_227120]

In the most general terms, male masturbation. More specifically, though, the Urban Dictionary describes a physical gesture associated with the exclamation and the implication of flinging semen at the one addressed.

[kaysho]

A picture is worth a thousand words: <http://www.furaffinity.net/view/3639587/> (NSFW!)

Or in three words, popping one off.