writing styles, tropes, sentence structure, etc. that you especially enjoy seeing while reading any literary material
Friend: So what do you look for in fic?
Me: Well, one of my writing turn-ons is good characterization. I love that in a good fic.
A wrestling move where the person on top of the bottom man, moves him on to his shoulders using a chicken wing and a rebar.
finish the Auburn turn!
Marijuana edibles. Pot brownies. Weed cookies. This term encompasses any baked good that'll get you high. Derived from the term "turn up", with "cake" representing any baked good acting as a 420 vessel.
She had a turn cake an hour ago, she's gonna be sooooooo high.
During church, when a number is called in the songbook and you happen to open the book to the exact number called.
Dude- No way! Look at this! I one-turn'd it!
Dudett- Impressive!
When someone who was previously going places drops their ambitions, often in favor of fitting in with a lower-achieving social circle.
Synonyms: To fall off, to lose one's edge
Etymology: From the pro wrestling term "heel turn" except instead of becoming a heel (villain), the person in question becomes a scrub (underachiever)
Diego got into a great university, but he took a scrub turn and centered his life mainly around drinking and playing video games with his buddies. Now a year after graduating college, he seems less talented than he was back in high school.
There's a lot of pressure to turn scrub, but you only get one life to make your dreams come true.
US Roads: Signal to other drivers an intent to turn right, switch to the shoulder lane, but instead of turning, one drives through the intersection, and merges back into the driving lane, usually cutting off traffic in the process.
That goober just did a milwaukee turn and cut me off!!
A term which means to have the your power over someone flipped for you to become the powerless. This is humorous variation of "turn the tables" made to subvert expectation by flipping the order of words around, creating an absurdly worded sentence. Alternatively, the past tense of this phrase is "the turns have tabled"
I had enough of bossing me around, now it is me that tables the turn.