The term applied to situations or objects which are rigged, unfair, or merely fucked up. This term comes from the fact that many punchbowls are spiked, and therefore put those drinking from the punchbowl at an unfair advantage against those whounderstand that its contents are laced.
a verb that usually happens when a nerd-type person at a social gathering can't dance and only hangs around the punchbowl or owns the sidelines of a party while everyone else is having a good time.
- Hey, whats up with Joseph over there? He's not even dancing!
- Yeah, why did he come to the party if he's just gonna be punchbowlin' the whole time?