Running two arguments side by side under different and contradictory rule sets. Especially, creating an analogy and denying that others make conclusions between them.
P1: I go through harassment from the leaders of this organization just as the Jews went through harassment from Nazi officers.
P2: You haven't as much as been placed under surveillance, let alone that kind of duress.
P1: I'm not comparing the two! I'm using parallel logic.
by Poor Lurker October 29, 2012
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The phenomena that occurs when an online chat morphs into two parallel conversations, usually as a result of one person continuing a conversation without realizing that the other person has changed the subject.
Person A: Yeah its funny how beer and weed can make you feel like you're peeing when combined.
Person A: Anyway, what's your favorite flavor of cotton candy?
Person B: Yeah this one time I smoked a spliff and downed a 40, and it felt like Niagara falls down there .
Person B: I'd have to say blue.
Person A: Hahaha! and agreed.
Person B: I like how you resolved our parallel chatting.
by 37coolhandluke37 October 2, 2011
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1. A specific line of latitude.
2. The official border between north and south Korea.
3. And arbitrary thing to yell during volleyball games.
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(n). When two women (or two men) lay on their backs next to each other while masturbating
I've been begging my bff Clara for a while to parallel play, but she's never into it.
by aodasso August 3, 2015
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Parallel play refers to two or more people doing activities in the same space without significant interaction. It's common behavior for children developmentally, and is often done by neurodivergent people into adulthood.
Person A: My kid keeps drawing by me, but she won't talk to me or join what I'm doing. I she ignoring me?
Person B: That's just parallel play, she's connecting with you!
Person A: ..Parallel play?
Person B: Just read the text above us.

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Person A: Hey, wanna parallel play?
Person B: Sure, but you've gotta show me what you drew at the end of it!
by somedisabledper August 17, 2023
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Something to compare something else, as well as emphasising a point
You must circle in black and white, as this GCSE revision is the parallel of the condundrum in your life! - said the teacher
by GeorgeFromTFM March 7, 2023
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Me: I decided to write a four-part harmony and I put a whole bunch of parallel fifths because why not!!!!!!!!!
Mom: YOU'RE GROUNDED GROUNDED GROUNDED GROUNDED GROUNDED FOR 431460316437164738201648316478301643701432143214321432143214321432143124 GOOGOLPLEX ETERNITIES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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