The term used to refer to the Coronavirus pandemic of 2020. The effects of the pandemic coupled with the resulting protests, economic and social impact and international escalation of tensions between countries make it the singular feature of 2020 that will never be forgotten by mankind. The term is used to avoid directly referencing the painful time is was for everyone when trying to make a point without drawing attention to the pandemic itself
Before The Event people loved travelling to Asia to experience exotic foods and sailing on cruise ships. unfortunately that doesn't seem to be the future we'll live in.
by pi_patrol June 19, 2020
by theventguy April 29, 2015
by sandru October 7, 2009
The definition comes from the movie (Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse) it is an inevitable event or action good or bad that is supposed to happen that results your future self.
for example a Canon event can be the the time where peter parker became Spider-man because he got bit by a mutated spider and that his uncle got murdered by a burglar which in result made him want to do justice and become a superhero
by KingMorales June 7, 2023
A catastrophic failure of the first launch of the NASA SLS rocket, which destroys enough of the ground systems to scuttle the program.
Since the first launch is uncrewed, this could happen without any loss of human life, and is widely regarded as the best possible outcome of the program, finally ringing a death knell to decades of pork and throwing good money after bad. If the Wickwick event occurs, thousands of skilled NASA employees and contractors, squandering their productive years on the dead-end SLS program, will be freed up to pursue more fruitful endeavors in the field.
Named after an Ars Technica reader and commentor named Wickwick, who proposed this outcome and explained why it would be overall a good thing, in a comment thread in early 2022.
Since the first launch is uncrewed, this could happen without any loss of human life, and is widely regarded as the best possible outcome of the program, finally ringing a death knell to decades of pork and throwing good money after bad. If the Wickwick event occurs, thousands of skilled NASA employees and contractors, squandering their productive years on the dead-end SLS program, will be freed up to pursue more fruitful endeavors in the field.
Named after an Ars Technica reader and commentor named Wickwick, who proposed this outcome and explained why it would be overall a good thing, in a comment thread in early 2022.
Everyone's tuning in to the launch webcast to see if we get a Wickwick Event, or if the SLS boondoggle continues sucking the air out of NASA.
by Not Linking My Identity Here August 23, 2022
An event in someone's life that must happen, in order to keep the balance of the multiverse and a development in their storyline. If you happen to change or distrupt it, the multiverse will collapse.
by anjinglah June 7, 2023
When someone has an orgasm so intense it is a life-changer. In a 1999 field study of 125 people who had experienced a climax of this magnitude, 15 died of heart attacks during the orgasm, 32 swore a lifetime of devotion to their lover, 43 swore a lifetime of devotion to their hand, 23 committed suicide convinced they had experienced the ultimate thrill life could give them, 11 began touring as motivational speakers, and one decided he was going to watch the Britney Spears video "Baby, One More Time" one more time to see if he could replicate his orgasmic event. Less than a minute into the video he had a seizure and died en route to the hospital.
(from "My Date With Giganti Tongue") ...her heart skipped, she held her breathe, THERE, oh my. She felt her soul fluttering from her body in ecstasy. Her limbs shuddered and she rode the orgasm like James Bond rode the tidal wave caused by the collapsed iceberg in the one where Halle Berry wore a bikini but was trapped in that igloo by the mad Korean. Hummingbirds peppered her heart with kisses and she felt higher than Cheech and Chong at a Grateful Dead concert in a jet flying over Mount Everest. And then, as the orgasmic event slowly subsided, there was that ultimate moment of clarity when suddenly she felt she could prove Einstein's Theory of Relativity was a load of horseshit.
by theinstigator January 13, 2014