Do you ever use wrestling slang in everyday life?

[Alexander The So-so]

I might be an enormous nerd (no, scratch that. I MOST LIKELY am an enormous nerd), but every now and then, I've found myself using kayfabe speech in my everyday life as slang terms. Has anyone else ever done this or tried this out? Examples of some of the phrases I've used:

-Just yesterday, me and my friends were discussing Halloween costumes, and I made a joke about how we should dress up in over-the-top costumes year-round, but act totally normal while we do so people think we're treating them like normal clothes, possibly starting a trend of wearing elaborate costumes every year. Of course, instead of saying "it could really catch on!" I phrased it as "it could really get over!"

-I do karate, and during training sessions, we occasionally do sparring in order to practice our moves. Normally, when you do this, you don't hit full-force and you do your moves lightly. But sometimes, there are people who nevertheless do their moves full-force in sparring, enough to actually hurt you. When someone does this to me, I'll find myself muttering to myself "Man, that guy was totally stiffing me!" or "Geez, he works stiff!"

-If I make a joke and none of my friends responds, I'll say or think "man, you're totally no-selling my joke!"

-Sometimes, in place of saying "...and that's the truth!" or "If I can be honest..." I'll say "...and that's a shoot!" or "If I can shoot for a second here..."

-Sometimes I'll refer to fanboys, blind followers of someone or something, or trendy people as "marks for *insert trend here*"

So, like I said, I'm probably a nerd. But has anyone else done this before? I, for one, think that it could actually catch on if enough of us did it in our everyday lives.

You might say...it could totally get over!

[Strotha]

I use over and mark like that, too.

[Mozenrath]

Not a whole lot. I might say "no-sell" since most people can probably get what that means, and I'll drop words like "gimmick", but most of my slang is Yiddish.

[keithsells]

I use Mark, Mark out, Sold, no sold, jobber, jobbing, And I'm sure I've used others.

[Dragonfly]

Let's see... I know I use jobber, jobbing, "put over," "no sold," buried, booking, and "New Jack" (as in "he/she went all New Jack on that") in normal conversation.

[Jay Carroll]

mark, no-sell, and over pop up in my everyday convo. a little too much at times.

[strykerdarksilence]

You name it, I've likely used it in conversation.

And gotten weird looks from my non-wrestling fan friends

[bogart]

i always say ' i marked like f***' when something cool happened in a story i'm telling. nobody knew what it meant for ages, now that they do, they just roll their eyes at me any time i say it.

[pazfan]

i read this thread and thought "man these folks really need to get a life. using wrestling slang like that in real life is so rediculous." then i just left the thread alone. then i got to thinking about it. and realized that I use no-sell, and shoot, and work, and over, and mark, along with a few other wrestling slang words. and i just use them so casually that i didn't even notice it.

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Oct 31, 2008 4:10:30 GMT -5 @strykerdarksilence said:

You name it, I've likely used it in conversation.

And gotten weird looks from my non-wrestling fan friends

Same here. The people at work think I'm speaking some sort of pig Latin.

[Andrew is Good]

I use put over and bury a lot. I was putting this person over, I don't want to bury this person. I say mark as well too, like, this chick I know is a huge mark for shopping.

[icansleep]

All day, every day, brother. And that's a shoot!

[Shy Guy]

no sell and swerve. i know swerve isn't really a wrestling term but i've had a few people ask me what i meant.

[chibidiablo]

All the time. Most common is sell/no-sell and I'm always calling things a work

[Red 'n' Black Reggie]

alot. selling/no selling and jobber/jobbing are the ones that seem to pop up the most. i don't do it on purpose, it's just how i instinctively talk. i've also claimed that someone who got extremely angry "went benoit on everyone", if that counts.

[Roger Smith]

I use rib. "You ribbing me?".

[Rodney the Piper]

pretty much all the ones already mentioned and iuse the term "heat" alot when talking about people i know who dont like each other

[@TenaciousBe]

I use alot of them as well, but they're not purely wrestling terms. "Mark" comes from the old-school carnival days, "selling" as a term for making someone believe something is just as old as the acting business itself. I think "shoot" is the only one exclusive to a wrestling atmosphere. Possibly "jobbing" as well, I guess.

[Well, Youre Wrong]

I pretty worked a bunch of wrestling slang in to my everyday conversation. Mainly, Jobber, No sell, over, swerve, no buys/buys, Mark.

[cmpaul31]

I use 'face'/'heel' to describe the good and bad characters in movies/TV shows etc., and if someone says something asshole-ish, "you're such a heel!" often pops out.

I also use the word heat a lot("I'm gonna have big heat with my boss"), but that's pretty easy to understand.

Edit - Oh, and I remember when me and my friend were haggling over getting a hotel room cheaper since we'd only need it a few hours(we were down in Englandshire for the NOAH show and had been awake all night on the bus, so wanted a few hours sleep), the manager said it goes against the rules and he'd be found out, I went "come on, we've been on a bus ride from the f***ing north east of Scotland, we're not gonna go Randy Orton on your room".