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Any And Every Time It's Appropriate To Shout 'Hoosier Daddy!'

Use it as a pick up line, I dare you.

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Any And Every Time It's Appropriate To Shout 'Hoosier Daddy!'
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This thing has been happening on Twitter where students from schools all over the country have been posting their schools catchphrase and listing all the things that it can mean at their particular school.

The perfect example of this? Good ol' Hoosier.

No one actually knows for sure what a Hoosier is or what it means, but alumni and students of IU alike have made their own personal definitions for it. You hear people talk about "Hoosier Daddy" all the time. It's printed on tons of t-shirts, talked about in IU's most popular song and the caption on thousands of college girls Instagram posts.

From my three years (and counting!) at Indiana University, I've learned that in all of these, and many more scenarios, "Hoosier Daddy" is the best thing you can say.

1. When you're out of the state and see literally anyone with any kind of IU apparel and you yell "Hoosier Daddy???"

2. When you're at a tailgate and you're friends ice you for the 5th time and yell "Hoosier Daddy?"

3. Honestly, anytime you're at a tailgate it's appropriate to say.

4. Literally at any frat party at any and all times.

Whether it's to request "This is IU," using it as a pickup line, or just saying it cuz you feel like it. In this scenario, it is always appropriate and appreciated.

5. Actually, any time you're drunk.

Just go for it.

6. At any IU athletic event.

Especially if it's basketball, and even LOUDER if we're playing Purdue.

7. Every single second of Little 500.

8. It's really another way of saying "Go Hoosiers" just with a little more sass.

9. Use it as a pickup line, I dare you!!!

10. A thing to say in order to bond with your fellow college peers or any alumni.

11. Say it at a bar and I guarantee it will get you a free drink.

For as little as Indiana University goers actually know about Hoosiers, "Hoosier Daddy" is something every IU student knows the meaning of. No matter where you are on campus, or even out of the state, anyone associated with Indiana University will smile nice and big and give you a fist in the air when you yell out that two-word slogan.

Hoosier Daddy? Indiana University, baby.

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