Muscles not growing or gaining strength because you do the same exercise over and over without enough weight or resistance.
He only lifts 15 pound dumbbells. It's not wonder he suffers from the plateau effect.
by Vital Forces May 31, 2010
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A term used in certain sports that involve intimidation. When you have 2 intimidating people, you don't put them one right after the other. That would be a mountain. If you spread out the intimidating people, you make a plateau. This is to ensure that throughout the whole game there will always be an intimidating person to come.
Big Intimidating Guy 1: Are you going to bat after me in this inning?
Big Intimidating Guy 2: No, we need an intimidation plateau.
Big Intimidating Guy 1: A what?
Big Intimidating Guy 2: An intimidation plateau.
Big Intimidating Guy 1: Ok.
by MarrBond November 9, 2006
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The sustained high state of arousal a woman achieves after a lot of foreplay, that enables her to stay at this higher level of arousal long enough to have multiple orgasms of increasing duration and varying intensity.
After my new girlfriends first big o, I kept her on the big o plateau so she could achieve multiple orgasms for the first time ever.
by TallandThick July 8, 2013
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The female reproductive organ that has been infected with a virus.
The gynecologist said "ma'am you have a San Diego Plateau between your legs and we need to amputate."
by TRUNDEL THE GREAT November 11, 2017
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The absolute wave. Nothing better than a flat rock amirite.
Homie 1: Ayo vro, plateaus are the fucking wave
Homie 2: Fuck yea it is yellow homie
(proceeds to smoke copious amounts of crack.)
by Florida Man Crack Brotha November 12, 2020
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To stop making progress in your workout
I.e your bench being stuck on a certain weight e.g 140kg for ages or suddenly going down instead of up

You’ve hit a plateau in your work out
by JayLorenzo July 30, 2022
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