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Caran | 22:09 Fri 06th Apr 2018 | ChatterBank
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What does this latest craze mean? It's where you put your arm across your face as though you are sneezing into your elbow.. it has some supposed deep meaning to the young. Anyone in on it.
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Avatar Image ummmm
Never heard of it until I seen it mentioned on Room 101.
22:12 Fri 06th Apr 2018
Avatar Image Mamyalynne
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dab_(dance)
22:13 Fri 06th Apr 2018
Avatar Image Malachite
"Latest"? It was so 2016 no one dares to do it now ...don't try and do it to show the youth of today you know their stuff because you will mostly hear stifled giggles!
22:13 Fri 06th Apr 2018
Avatar Image goodgoalie
...and don't do it in Saudi Arabia - it's illegal there!
22:14 Fri 06th Apr 2018
Avatar Image Malachite
Hahahahahaaaa :-) Apparently it's illegal to dab in Saudi Arabia!!
22:15 Fri 06th Apr 2018
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...oops.
22:16 Fri 06th Apr 2018
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That's where I saw it to ummmm.
22:17 Fri 06th Apr 2018
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I have often 'Dabbled' in many things.
22:17 Fri 06th Apr 2018
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But what does it mean?
22:17 Fri 06th Apr 2018
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Dabbing, or the dab, is a simple dance move in which a person drops the head into the bent crook of a slanted arm, not to be confused with the Nazi salute; often while raising the opposite arm in a parallel direction but out straight. Since 2015, it has also been used as a gesture of triumph or playfulness, becoming a youthful American dance fad and Internet meme
22:20 Fri 06th Apr 2018
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From the link.
22:21 Fri 06th Apr 2018
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Thank you Mamya, why do the young do it?
22:26 Fri 06th Apr 2018
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I only know what I've read - a gesture of triumph and playfulness.
22:29 Fri 06th Apr 2018
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I don't think they do anymore Caran ..certainly not where I live.
It is definitely "passe" here. They don't even do it as a cringeworthy joke to parody the time when it was fashionable.
22:30 Fri 06th Apr 2018
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It faded out around the same trime as "bottle tossing" even before fidget spinners.
22:31 Fri 06th Apr 2018
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What was bottle tossing?
23:04 Fri 06th Apr 2018
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must have come after hula hoops, Caran.
23:08 Fri 06th Apr 2018
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I think its where kids (mainly) throw a plastic bottle with some liquid in it and try to get it to land standing up
23:14 Fri 06th Apr 2018
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I've never seen any young person 'dabbing' ever, even in 2016. I've also only just seen it on Room 101.
23:14 Fri 06th Apr 2018
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I've never heard of it full stop ( gawd, I must start and get down with da kids ).
23:18 Fri 06th Apr 2018

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