When an organization or community is doing poorly enough that its smartest people, seeing the writing on the wall, leave for better opportunities elsewhere. This is common in business and other organizations that perpetuate a common goal or mission and once purged it typically accelerates the demise of the organiztion.
For example: Facebook's poor stock performance since it's IPO and lack of favorable stock options for employees puts them at risk of brain drain. Many will likely head over to Google or Apple, but they'll be in trouble.
For example: Facebook's poor stock performance since it's IPO and lack of favorable stock options for employees puts them at risk of brain drain. Many will likely head over to Google or Apple, but they'll be in trouble.
Mark Zuckerberg: Sheryl, can find me those repots on Zynga's...Hey?! Why are wearing a Google sweatshirt?!
Sheryl Sandberg: Sorry Mark. We had a good run, but your lack of focus on ad revenue and overvalued IPO has caused this drop in FB stock value with no end in sight. I and the others are leaving before the stock tanks.
Mark Z: The others? They're all leaving Facebook? You can't! We'll never survive this brain drain!
Sheryl: Yeah, sorry. You should've thought about that before going public.
Sheryl Sandberg: Sorry Mark. We had a good run, but your lack of focus on ad revenue and overvalued IPO has caused this drop in FB stock value with no end in sight. I and the others are leaving before the stock tanks.
Mark Z: The others? They're all leaving Facebook? You can't! We'll never survive this brain drain!
Sheryl: Yeah, sorry. You should've thought about that before going public.
by Tenacious Faulker August 3, 2012
"Dude, I had 3 exams to study for over the long weekend and I pushed off all my studying till 10:30 last night"
"Woahh, you must have major brain drain!!"
"heck yes"
"Woahh, you must have major brain drain!!"
"heck yes"
by Josh1800 October 11, 2006
When one car window is open and you can feel pulsing in your ears. Use the back window to maximize the effect.
to experience the brain drain we roll down the window and feel the flapping of our ear drums in the wind.
by sallicehte August 4, 2006
The process of getting an exceptional blowjob, hence the word “brain”, and letting loose the largest load of all time.
Jake: “Yo, Andrew did you get it from Angie last night.”
Andrew: “Yeah man, she gave me the brain drain.”
Andrew: “Yeah man, she gave me the brain drain.”
by Trident of Treason August 24, 2018
a debate between 2 leftwing streamers: "Vaush" and "MikefromPA" happening on twitch.tv on the 7 March 2021
Did you watch the debate of Vaush and Mike ? It was so exhausting and annoying to watch, "what a brain drain"
by justBender March 8, 2021
A turn of phrase meant to insult either yourself or others for their foolishness or stupidity to the point of it seeming as if there brain is leaking out of their own skull, hence brain drain
A friend that is ordinarily quite adept at chess, horribly blunders an obvious play, the only possible explanation being a severe brain drain at the time.
Hungario: The pawn was adjacent to your queen, there want even any threat of taking it, what happened?
Klempt: My bad, serious case of Brain Drain over here i guess.
Hungario: The pawn was adjacent to your queen, there want even any threat of taking it, what happened?
Klempt: My bad, serious case of Brain Drain over here i guess.
by BiasHyperion October 27, 2023
when after jacking off for a long time or having sex for a long time and you finally cum and the load that you blow is so immense that you can feel your sack emptying out leaving the skin of it so tight that it constricts around your balls leaving your sack looking like a brain.
Dude i sobered up halfway through and saw how not hot she was and it ended up taking me so long to finish i definitely had some brain drain.
by J Dude June 18, 2010