What is Gate?
1.
A suffix used to denote a political scandal. Its use originated with the Watergate scandal during the Nixon administration.
Filegate and Chinagate are examples of Clinton era scandals.
2.
Denotes a place where drugs are sold, and is usually referred to places where the dealers live, most commonly houses or
1. Hey yo, somebody just robbed my gate.
2. How you gonna come disrespectin' my gate like that?
3. Swing by the weed gate if your trying to pick up.
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3.
Short for Gator (which is short for Alligator). Very early in Jazz history, musicians referred to themselves as "alligators". Now it simply refers to any Swing Devotee.
This version, Gate, works especially well, because a gate, like a good jazz musician, swings.
'Cat' #1: See ya later, alligator.
'Cat' #2: After while, crocodile.
Nate: Keep it swingin', Gate.
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4.
Two people of the same gender who are seen out on a date. Mixture of the words "gay" and "date"
Aw, Marvin and Luke are gating now!
Look at those two guys over there...think they're gating?
5.
A term often used on IRC to refer to a
<IRCer1> I'm a load all my flood bots and flood this channel!
*Bots Join Channel*
<IRCer2> Thanks for the gates!
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6.
Slang synonym for "uncool", used to describe an event, an object, a person, or a feeling.
(Event): "That sponge bathing for grandma was gate."
(Object): "His dirty sock was gate. So gate."
(Person): "That pinhead is so gate."
(Feeling): "Man, I felt gate with my pants around my ankles."
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7.
this term is used by convicts from california, refering to it as the last gate you walk through to freedom.
"hey dog when you getting out the gate?"
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