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Player 1's Episode Notes

Cool

Fuck

Duh, Doi, no duh/doi

AlL that and a bag of chips

411

DAP

• The next time you're really enjoying something, be sure to let everyone know you think it's DAP. "[It's] an acronym for Dead Ass Perfect and comes from the 50s jazz era when something — whether it is a riff or a trumpet solo or martini — is simply excellent," Brenda Knight, author of Women of the Beat Generation , tells Bustle. So useful, right?

https://www.bustle.com/articles/201202-11-hilarious-old-fashioned-slang-words-we-should-bring-backv

Don’t have a cow

Know Your Onions

• To "know your onions" is to know what's up or what's going on, according to Nico Lang on ThoughtCatalog.com. This one is out of the 20s — a decade where many a ridiculous phrase was uttered. Maybe it's time we bring some of them back?

Twitterpated

Marine Corps

Ricky Tick-quick fast and I a a hurry

Assholes and elbows- do it now

Trackin?- understand?

Dag’on it’s how it’s said that makes it military

New Mexican

The higherarchy of “A La”

A la- excitement or exasperation much like the word fuck is so versatile

A la

A la vagers this is what kids say as to not get smacked

A la maquina amazed disbelief

• To the machine

A la verga

Then the apex A la FUCKING verga, bro!

• Means to the dick

We used to say “psycho” or “psychopathic” if something was all crazy

“All…” adds emphasis to whatever you’re saying

“Uhmbers”… shame shame

“Eeeeeeee”

“Mimis” sleep I’m guessing derived from dormir