What does dancing banana mean?

The Dancing Banana GIF was originally part of a Flash animation accompanied by The Buckwheat Boyz' "Peanut Butter Jelly Time." Now it's just a great way to tell your friends and coworkers that you're ready for the weekend.
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What is a dancing banana?

Dancing Banana is a popular emoticon. Danse sauvage, an exotic dance performed by Josephine Baker. "Dr. Jean's Banana Dance", a song and video by American children's author and musician Dr. Jean.
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What does banana mean in slang?

(bəˈnɑːnəz ) adjective. slang. crazy (esp in the phrase go bananas)
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What is the origin of the dancing banana?

2001: The Dancing Banana emoticon was created by Trym Stene (Tierra) as a . gif. 2002:Peanut Butter Jelly Time was made into a flash animation by Ryan Gancenia Etrata and Kevin Flynn. It spread on the Web via message boards.
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Who created the banana dance?

And there, wearing little more than strings of pearls, wrist cuffs, and a skirt made of 16 rubber bananas, Josephine Baker descended from a palm tree onstage, and began to dance. This dance—the danse sauvage—is what established her as the biggest black female star in the world.
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What does the dancing banana GIF mean?

The Dancing Banana GIF was originally part of a Flash animation accompanied by The Buckwheat Boyz' "Peanut Butter Jelly Time." Now it's just a great way to tell your friends and coworkers that you're ready for the weekend.
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What is the dancing banana meme called?

The Dancing Banana (also known as Peanut Butter Jelly, or Humba the Banana[citation needed]) is a popular emoticon originally created by Trym Stene (Tierra), just as a fun animated .
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What does Tally Mi banana mean?

1 Answer. It is a song from the point of view of dock workers working the night shift loading bananas onto ships. Daylight has come, the shift is over and they want their work to be counted up so that they can go home (this is the meaning of the lyric "Come, Mr. Tally Man, tally me banana)
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How did bananas come to mean crazy?

These sources claim that the crazy banana meaning comes from the phrase “banana oil,” which, in flapper slang, meant “nonsense.” Typically, the substance referred to as banana oil is amyl acetate, which is, insanely, used as both a paint solvent and as a flavoring.
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What does banana bender mean?

B. banana bender. A Queenslander. The term derives from the joking notion (as perceived from the southern states of Australia) that Queenslanders spend their time putting bends into bananas.
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What does 🍑 mean in slang?

Officially called the peach emoji, the butt emoji was first introduced in 2010 under Unicode 6.0. As its fuzzy, cleft appearance looks like a plump rear end, the peach emoji quickly came to stand for buttocks on social media and in text messages, especially a woman's in sexual contexts.
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What does banana mean in TikTok?

"Westernized Asian Person" (pejorative term) is a common definition for BANANA on Snapchat, WhatsApp, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and TikTok. BANANA. Definition: Westernized Asian Person.
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What does top banana mean in slang?

noun slang, mainly US. 1. the leading comedian in vaudeville, burlesque, etc. 2. the leader; boss.
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What is dancing mania called?

Dancing mania (also known as dancing plague, choreomania, St. John's Dance, tarantism and St. Vitus' Dance) was a social phenomenon that occurred primarily in mainland Europe between the 14th and 17th centuries. It involved groups of people dancing erratically, sometimes thousands at a time.
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What is a banana slap?

Banana Slap is a wacky game that will have everyone jumping up and down like monkeys! When two cards match, the goal is to be the first to slap the banana. If you lose, then you have to do what the monkey's do on each card- scratch your head, jump up and down, and more!
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Why is your head called a nut?

The noun form “nut,” meaning “crazy person,” may have a different history. By the mid-1800s, nut was slang for head. If someone said you were “off your nut,” that would mean you were crazy. Psychologist Timothy Anderson points out that many recent euphemisms for insanity have sexual connotations.
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Why do you call someone nuts?

If someone calls you a nut, or describes you as nuts or nutty, they think you're crazy or wacky, and when you refer to "a tough nut to crack," you're talking about a tricky problem.
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What does it mean to call someone nuts?

/nʌts/ crazy, foolish, or strange: You're nuts if you think you can go mountain climbing in a snowstorm. If you are nuts about or nuts over someone or something, you are very enthusiastic about that person or thing: He's nuts about his new granddaughter.
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What is the meaning of Day O Banana Boat?

It is a call and response work song, from the point of view of dock workers working the night shift loading bananas onto ships. The lyrics describe how daylight has come, their shift is over, and they want their work to be counted up so that they can go home.
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What does banana and cherry mean?

Cherry: "In a relationship" Banana: "Married"
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What is banana message?

Directions: Gently lay a banana on its side to use the broadest surface to write on. Use a skewer to carefully scratch a message and/or pictures onto the banana skin. Don't break the skin; pressing on it gently will do the trick. Watch your banana as the message or image begins to emerge in dark brown or black.
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What does peanut butter jelly song mean?

It just encourages people to have fun. It's a song — a song about spreading “it” like peanut butter jelly. No matter what you look like or how talented of a dancer you are, you can just have a good time with this music.
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What happened to the guy that made Peanut Butter Jelly Time?

Conversation. Jermaine Fuller, the singer of "Peanut Butter Jelly Time," died after an eleven-hour standoff with Las Vegas police in 2002. Even after his brother-in-law, Snoop Dogg, taped a message urging him to surrender.
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What is a Peanut Butter Jelly Time shot?

Try the peanut butter and jelly shot with equal parts of peanut butter whiskey and raspberry liqueur, or make it with 2 parts whiskey and 1 part raspberry liqueur. You can also float the whiskey on top of the liqueur. Recipe Tags: Shot.
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