Sorta wrestling related...kinda
 

Do any of your friends who hate or just don't watch wrestling use wrestling terms? For example, my brother who does not watch wrestling uses the term "mark out". I'm just wondering if you have infected any friend or relatives.

I had always thought Babyface and Heel were wrestling terms, yet lately I have heard that used by more and more people.

Babyface and heel are also old movie terms. I don't know where it came from frist (Given much of wrestling speak is old carnie slang, and "mark" replaced "rube" in like, 1890...), but it's not entirely surprising that people would use them.

The Whoe used one term, Dick Van Dyke used the other. And somehow, Flair would still bitch about his insider terms.

The Whoe? Did you misspell whore, ho, or who?

I've used the term 'mark' as in "I'm a mark for crotchless panties" a few times and just got blank stares

when i was in film school I used the terms "heel" and "face" when describing caracters.

I've actually heard people refer to other celebrities as "being over with the people" like sports players for example.

Is 'gimmick' a wrestling term?

There is no word (not counting moves) that originated from wrestling EXCEPT for perhaps "Jobber" and it's variants.

"Mark" is a carny term, and "gimmick" is basically something that's supposed to make something seem better (for example, "the control scheme of the Wii controller is gimmicky").

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Because getting over is not a wrestling term. Being "put over" might be, though.

During the first few weeks of High School wrestling my Sophomore year, I started using the term "jobber" to describe this one kid who just lost every fucking match he had. Pretty soon everyone on the team was using it to refer to people who were losing matches pretty regularly and guys who were just not having any kind of success on the mat.

Then at a tournament, I actually ended up having to wrestle him and somehow, he beat me by one point and actually went on to win the tournament for his weight class.

After it was over, and he had his medal and everyone had congratulated him and shit, I shook his hand and said "you're lucky I put you over." He didn't have a clue what I was talking about.