A fork of Rural Dictionary
Used to mean the same as other definitions. 'Do you understand?'
Oh yeah.
(The Mock Turtles, 1990)
'You won't ever get me down, won't see me hanging aro-o-o-o-und, can you dig it? Oh yeah'
Mock Turtles, 1990.
A phrase used in the song for the movie "Shaft" that was then used for a McDonald's commercial which had Shaq (famous basketball player) in it. As of now, this phrase has been incorporated into Shaq's short but annoying list of phrases such as "Meow" and "Kobe didn't rape that girl".
"SHAAAAAAAAAAQ Can you dig it?"
This phrase appears in several times in the 70s movie 'car wash' at the beginning and during the film when a radio dj from a LA radio station plays black music. His voice sounds like Barry White's.
It also appears in other 'blaxplotion'-movies. In the movie 'Undercover brother' which is a parody to this movies it appears too.
And now we play <insert favourite soul/black music title here>. Can you dig it?
When someone is talking bullshit, another people listening may interrupt saying, "Can you smell that?", referring to the imaginary smell of bullshit coming from the original speaker.
Person 1: I pulled this stunning girl at the weekend
Person 2: Can you smell that?
Translated from Chinglish. aka If you can do it then you should go up and do it. It's used against people who criticize others' work, especially when the criticizer it not that much better. Often followed by "no can no BB", which means "if you can't do it then don't even criticize it".
"That person does not deserve the award."
"You can you up"
It's a popular phrase in Chinese, generally speaking it means " if you think you can achieve something while you are criticizing others, you go and achieve it". It always use with "no can no bb" which means if you can not achieve it, stop bullshiting" bb means talking shit in Chinese
Tyler: This chemistry thing seems to be so ez, why it takes you forever?
Me: You can you up, no can no bb
If you can do it, then get up and do it.
You talk a good game! Lets put some money on it. "You can you up"!