Yacht Rock and other Aquatic Genres
Backed by The All Five-Foot-One Black Albino Choir, two of the main characters on this Fox comedy performed the folk music parody "Train on the Water, Boat on a Track."
What is Family Guy?
Don't call the doctor! This term was popularized by Gen X, describing something cool or impressive.
What is "Sick?"
This is a form of unconventional fighting, not battles between great apes.
What is Guerrilla Warfare?
In number theory, the additive inverse of a positive number will always be this. In medicine, it's the result you usually want to get from a diagnostic test.
What is Negative?
Expressing jealousy.
What is Envious?
T-Pain helped out this comedy trio with their 2009 single, "I'm On a Boat."
What is The Lonely Island?
This term popularized by Millennials might lead someone to call the fire department. However, it actually describes something that is extremely fun, like a party or a concert.
What is "Lit?"
This early 70s scandal involved the burglary of an office, not a dam that burst.
What is Watergate?
In mathematics, it's a function that gives the principal value of a square root. In politics, it's disruptive and extreme.
What is a Radical?
The British spelling of a synonym of “rescuer."
What is Saviour?
This 1997 hit on Ween's album "The Mollusk" describes "A tan man imbibed by the sand," and was used in The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie's soundtrack in 2004.
What is Ocean Man?
Put your donuts away, this Gen Z slang is used to describe when someone is being a suck up.
What is "Glaze?"
This is the subway in the capital of England, not a political movement.
What is the London Underground?
In geometry, it's a partial circumference of a circle. In literature, it's how a character changes over the course of a story.
What is an Arc?
Characterized by religious devotion.
What is Pious?
A maritime disaster on Lake Superior inspired this 1976 folk-rock ballad.
What is The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald?
No, the Baby Boomers weren't talking about rushing the quarterback when using this term. It was instead used to describe being drunk!
What is "Blitzed?"
This “Maid of Orleans” is the patron saint of France, unrelated to Noah.
Who is Joan of Arc?
In trigonometry, it's the determination of a length or coordinate based on other known points or segments. In psychology, it's the unwanted or harmful involvement of an outside party in a relationship.
What is Triangulation?
Boisterous and disorderly.
What is Rambunctious?
In 1988, The Beach Boys scored their first hit in 20 years with this critically panned tune about various Caribbean ports-of-call.
What is Kokomo?
This Gen Alpha slang phrase is used to describe someone's poor luck with the ladies, not a crazy trip to Cincinnati with a former beloved Cubs first baseman.
What is "Skibidi Ohio Rizz?"
In the song “Werewolves of London”, the werewolf “drinking a piña colada at Trader Vic’s” had hair that was high quality, not purple.
What is perfect?
In complex systems, it's non-random but difficult or impossible to predict behavior. In general, it's just something disordered and out-of-control.
What is Chaos?
Intrepidly daring.