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Mantis was a term used to describe a seemingly random genre of music. Mantis music is often seen a a renaming of the metal genre, seeing most of the songs that are classified as "mantis" have the exact same characteristics of metal songs. However, songs with a piano-focus (i.e. "Our House" by Madness, "100 Years" by Five for Fighting", "Allentown" by Billy Joel) are also considered mantis.
Etymology: David Schneider, a socialist revolutionary and film/music critic coined the term in 2005 to replace the term, "metal", which he felt sounded too lame in 21st-century society. It was derived from the insect, the praying mantis.
"I love Mantis albums. Going from a face-melting, guitar-shredding song into a catchy, smooth piano song is an experience like none other.
1. A pair of very brief, tight fitting men's underpants. Prob. originated from an episode of the sitcom Seinfeld.
2. Underwear made for men and patterned after women's panties.
1. The guy took off his pants and he was wearing manties; I think I need a shower.
2. I'd wear panties, but manties have more room to move around in.
A hunch back or a person with bad posture. Often named Dillon and only have good posture when sitting on a ski lift with their book bag on.
An idiot the worst posture awfully horrible horrible posture Mantis
A gay dude who wears a lot of bird shirts and walks like a praying mantis. This person is also known to grossly over-exaggerate everything.
Jeff: Hey, check out my new bird shirt. I got it at Express because it has a bird on it, and I liked the color.
Kris: Um, nice.
Jeff: Feel this fabric.
Kris: Uh, I can’t dude. I sprained my finger playing Halo.
<Later that night>
Jeff: Hey Logan, did you hear that Kris broke his collar bone in a bar fight last night?
Logan: You are such a mantis.
Jeff: Cassandra’s left nipple is purple. :(
A female who has a bad habit of doing manatee impressions, if someone is mantie they are also often nerdy and butch.
From first impressions she seemed like a nice girl but she was such a mantie.
Word decribing how a girl behaves towards guys. It can be used as a verb or as a noun.
The female praying mantis bites the head off a male during sex to encourage ejaculation. If a girl is being a mantis, or doing a mantis, she's going quickly from male to male, getting what she wants.
Did you see Jess and Steve? He bought her dinner and a necklace and she dumped him, she did a total mantis.
Krystle fucked three guys this weekend. What a mantis.