A sweet/innocent-sounding term for frequent/ongoing financial handouts that one or more mooching relatives (such as adult-children or nephews/nieces) request/expect from one or more fiscally-solvent/responsible relatives (such as parents, grandparents, or aunts/uncles), step-relatives, or in-laws.
Disgusted step-father: Boy, when I agreed to a "family support" clause in the prenup, it never occurred to me that I'd be expected to actually FINANCIALLY SUPPORT my apathetic step-daughter and her lazy good-for-nothing live-in boyfriend! They act like they love and appreciate me, but I know they really only view me as a walking ATM!
A poor person in a movie about rich people who only exists to teach the wealth-scarred protagonist(s) how to feel or act like humans
“Sam has such a loving family and he’s got his act together. It’s almost like he’s the rich guy instead of Derrick”
“Sam’s family showed up once on screen, and he has no problems or personality of his own. He’s just an emotional support poor.”
The opposite of a jab. Instead of giving something a stab, you give it a supportive tickle when you aren’t sure.
Person 1: can you take a stab at this and help me out?
Person 2: I don’t know how good I’ll be but I’ll give you a supportive tickle
A redundant insult that is used by fans of poorly performing football clubs to call out fans of clubs that perform better than their own in order to make excuses for their own petty bitterness.
Look at all those Arsenal, Man Utd/City fans, they're all a bunch of glory supporters and only support them because they're constantly winning. My team is facing relegation each season so that makes me a real football fan, unlike those posers.
(This particular fan's team was in the top 3 regularly 10 years ago, so at one stage that insult would have been used against them.)
the act of behaving or changing one's behavior to avoid being put on them papers.
1. a tactic, act, or actions that tricks one's baby momma
He acted like they were together in an tactic called child support aversion.
On April 27th you support your friends with compliments and love
Tom: Hey you're cute
Jessica: Why thank you Tom
Tom: National Support Day
Jessica: Oh well you're funny
Supported by a very large audience, or the broad public.
Linux is extensively supported.