KOTTKE

Comes from the guitarist Leo Kottke, who often uses unusual guitar tunings. To get kottkied is to pick up your friend's guitar in hopes of impressing the crowd but you find it is retuned to some absurd string combination, making you look like a talentless hack-fool. Alternatively, it could mean a situation in which someone throws a curve-ball into your comfy familiar logic. Example: Hey, Waldo, can I jam on your axe? Oh, you kottkied me.