A fork of Rural Dictionary
In no-limit poker, to bet all of your chips as a sign of total confidence in your hand. If you have a very good hand, go all-in to win the maximum number of chips or to scare off mediocre hands so they won't catch the cards they need to beat yours. If you have a bad hand, you can bluff by going all-in and hope everyone folds.
I went all-in on thirty miles and that river rat caught a runner-runner flush.
A phrase which once meant "anything excluding" or "not" but now which means absolutely nothing and is used by Yankees to indicate a lack of intelligence unbeknown to them.
Paul (From Tennessee): I got an 11 on my ACT... Brutus (From New York): I got a 35, I am all but intelligent. Paul: Are you sure they didn't mix up our tests? Brutus: Oh wait, I didn't even take the ACT.
Pithy dismissal of all attempts to continue engagement in conversation, online posting, flaming, trolling, etc.
Rational poster: <List of points as to why flamer is a tool>. That is all. Flamer: <Weak attempt at continuing to argue, change the topic, bait and switch, etc.> Flamer: Wait, I'm not done with you yet! Flamer: Your silence just shows you know I'm right! etc, etc, ad infinitum/nauseam Also, it was the closing line in M*A*S*H years before it was uttered by Darth Vader: P.A. Announcer: (clears his throat) Attention. Tonight's movie has been "M*A*S*H." Follow the zany antics of our combat surgeons as they cut and stitch their way along the front lines, operating as bombs and bullets burst around them; snatching laughs and love between amputaions and penicillin. Colonel Blake: (Watches as a jeep rolls away) Did Hawkeye steal that jeep? Radar: No, sir. That's the one he came in. Colonel Blake: Oh, very good. Come along, my dear. (He and Lt. Leslie leave) P.A. Announcer: Follow Hawkeye, Trapper, Duke, Dago Red, Painless, Radar, Hot Lips, Dish and Staff Seargeant Vollmer as they put our boys back together again. SSgt. Gorman: Goddamn army. P.A. Announcer: That is all. (a gong sounds and the screen suddenly goes black. End of movie)