beta

A japanese fighting fish. The males, when put in tanks together flare their gills and fight until one dies.

My beta will kick your beta's ass!

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pardon my french

phrase used as an appology for using profanities. The word for "seal" (the animal) in french is "phoque," which is pronounced the same as the word "fuck" in english. This is how the phrase originated.

You've got to be fucking kidding me! Pardon my french, but that's insane!

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kine

Local Hawaiian "pidgin", short for kind; used in virtuallyl any sentance to mean virtually anything. The examples bellow are given in local "pidgin." They are not typos, rather this is actually how people talk in Hawaii.

"I like try eat small kine grinds." = I want something small to eat.
"Which kine board you like use?" = What kind of board do you want to use?

note: "kine" is most often used in conjunction with "da'" (the) -- see following:
person A: "What you do today, brah?"
person B: "'eh... da' kine, work. I never once have time go surfing."

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charge

slang word used by surfers intending to do something (may or may not be related to surf); somewhat equivalent to "go for it."

person A "I was thinking of surfing at Pipeline today, bro'."
person B "charge, man."
or
person A "This place is a mess. It'll take two of us to clean it."
person B "Let's just charge on it. It'll be done in no time."

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