Voting is open!! Voting will be open for the next 45 days, please vote wisely! Find each word's home page below for an explanation as to what the heck it means and why it should be Canada's new Cheers.

Cheers for Canada
is a Canada wide contest to create a new, uniquely Canadian replacement for 'Cheers'. This word could be yours!

The winner will receive a party toasting their word on May 24 weekend, 2009!

Spirits Up

Fedora from somewhere in Canada:

""spirits up!"

-a play on "bottoms up" an can be followed with..."....liquor down""

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Suck her back

Allain from somewhere in Canada said:

"25 years in the canadian navy, instead of cheers we always said suck her back"

Hip Hip

Jeff from Toronto:

"Why not pay homage to one of the greatest Canadian bands, while maintaining a class cheer (Hip Hip Hooray).
So raise your glasses and say Hip Hip .... and the hooray will follow down to your belly!"

Thanks

So say we all

Amber from Toronto, ON:

Many would recognize this line from the re-imagined Battlestar Galactica, but I think it's a great way of showing our unity as a country as well (and it doesn't hurt that half the cast of the show was Canadian, either!)

Hadeed

Rosaltn from Toronto:

"What it means to us:
The word Ha-deed (sounds like it looks) is something me and my friends always say when we are:

1- excited about something
2- happy with the plans we've made
3- when something is "cool" or we say HADEED!

Background/Origin:
The word is of Arabic decent and the direct translation means "steel".

A "hadeed" story:
My friend and I decided to go to Niagara Falls on a Thursday night. We went to the bar
and met pretty much everyone in the bar (it wasn't very busy). Everyone at the club ended up
outside at one point. I got up and said that on three we were going to change it from cheers to HADEED!
Everyone on the patio went nuts!!! I had everyone in there, including the DJ, saying Hadeed by the end of the night.
We should bring it back (by popular demand)!!

Website to prove its intense "hadeedness"
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=hadeed "

Rock a Piss-Up

Tiffany from somewhere in Canada:

"Rock a Piss- The process of urination, usually in an outdoor setting.

Taken from the link below:
http://www.coolslang.com/in/canadian/index.php?OL=eng&TL=eng&Letter=R

Piss-Up- A drunken Gong show or a good time.


So.....Lets "ROCK A PISS-UP"

Repeat Submissions!!

Hi Everyone,

You may have noticed the slow down in submissions in March. A lot of this is due to repeat submissions, so please check the previous submissions before emailing your ideas!

Thanks,

Andrew

Toyour

Nikki from London,

"Toyour can have a lot of meanings. It could be 'to your health', 'to your family', 'to your friendship', 'to your future', etc. It is easy to say with a good flow."

Thanks!

Get Naked

Cindy from Saskatoon SK:

"So when all of us girls go out for a night out.......instead of doing cheers, we typically say......"get naked"

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Hoser

Allan from somewhere in Canada:

"Take off eh!!

Yeah, I took the word (Hoser) made famous by Bob and Doug McKenzie in the movie Strange Brew.

Its quite iconic for myself since I basically grew up with that movie."

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