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The art of faking momentum you never actually earned.

means A move where you lift both wheels off the ground by jumping or snapping your bike/board upward without a ramp, or — in the card game sense — stacking multiple draw cards onto an opponent before they can respond.

from From the literal image of a rabbit hopping — short, bouncy leaps off the ground. The term jumped from describing an actual bunny's gait to any quick double-footed hop (dance crazes, playground games, BMX and skateboard tricks), then got adopted in card games like UNO for chaining 'draw' penalty cards, since each added card is another little hop before someone finally has to land.

origin
BMX trick, jumping both wheels off ground
fps gaming
exploits engine physics to move faster than running
irony
looks lazy, requires frame-perfect timing
nerf patches
many games quietly fixed the speed glitch
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