BOAJan 7, 2017 by Michael Gilley
10 Words That Mean Something Different For The Marching Arts
10 Words That Mean Something Different For The Marching Arts
Here are 10 words that mean something completely different for the marching arts community than everybody else.
The marching world definitely has it's own language. Many times is rather simple words that have taken on whole new meanings and now they'll never go back to the elementary school definitions we originally learned. So here's ten words than we tend to use a little differently than the rest of the world.
Dirty
Normal Meaning: What happens when puppies play in mud puddles.
Marching Meaning: Having a bad run, playing poorly, and/or not doing it together.
Drill
Normal Meaning: That electric tool dad uses to hang your band pictures up.
Marching Meaning: The collective movements and coordinates on the field used know where to march too.
Marching Meaning: A unbelievable large amount of glitter, eye shadow, and colors never used for anything other than your show.
Marching Meaning: The small tools that lay waste to the center of your palms and skin in between your fingers.
Marching Meaning: The best part of the WGI season.
Marching Meaning: The gifted percussionists who double as professional movers.
Marching Meaning: Just a fake wooden rifle that is thrown in the air with the intent of doing minimal bodily harm.
Marching Meaning: The bane of tenor players existence everywhere.
Marching Meaning: Responsible for more damage repair to basketball gym floors than anything in the world.
Marching Meaning: The 6" drum on tenors that seemingly every roll ends on today.
Dirty
Normal Meaning: What happens when puppies play in mud puddles. Marching Meaning: Having a bad run, playing poorly, and/or not doing it together.
Drill
Normal Meaning: That electric tool dad uses to hang your band pictures up.Marching Meaning: The collective movements and coordinates on the field used know where to march too.
Makeup
Normal Meaning: The light application of color, blush, and lipstick when going out with friends.Marching Meaning: A unbelievable large amount of glitter, eye shadow, and colors never used for anything other than your show.
Mallets
Normal Meaning: The small tools used to gently hammer small nails or to tenderize meat.Marching Meaning: The small tools that lay waste to the center of your palms and skin in between your fingers.
Color Guard
Normal Meaning: The military soldiers who carry the American flag to the field during the national anthem.Marching Meaning: The best part of the WGI season.
Pits
Normal Meaning: The lovable dogs who have a bad rap.Marching Meaning: The gifted percussionists who double as professional movers.
Rifles
Normal Meaning: One of the most influential weapons the world has ever known.Marching Meaning: Just a fake wooden rifle that is thrown in the air with the intent of doing minimal bodily harm.
Rims
Normal Meaning: The bling to your ride.Marching Meaning: The bane of tenor players existence everywhere.
Sabres
Normal Meaning: A type of a sword.Marching Meaning: Responsible for more damage repair to basketball gym floors than anything in the world.
Spock
Normal Meaning: The lovable, logical reasoning character from Star Trek.Marching Meaning: The 6" drum on tenors that seemingly every roll ends on today.
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