When you needlessly switch your hockey goalie in the middle of the game, regardless of the score and voluntarily hurt your teams chance for success.
“Pips was playing excellent! I can’t believe this idiot coach decided to pull a Philbin, putting him on the bench in the middle of a tie game and throwing in a cold goalie from the bench. Jesus Christ they just scored on the next two shots!”
When you do not allow your players to skate across the blue line with the puck and force them to play dump and chase. Also, no one is allowed to pass to the point even if they are wide open.
The points are wide open and they are not passing to them? They are forced in playing a Philbin.
Jesus, that player just dumped the puck on a breakaway? The coach is forcing them to pull a Philbin!
When a person with beer goggles hooks up with another, they will often pass out next to their one-time lover, only to wake up in the morning and realize their conquest was ugly as fuck. No problem, they dress faster than a fireman and hit the front door, never looking back. Occasionally, however, said conquest is lying on the formerly beer-goggled person in such a way that extricating him/herself without waking the other person up would be an impossible task. The pitbull suicide is when a person saws off his/her arm or other appendage in order to avoid waking the fugly person next to him/herself. It can be done with ones own teeth (hence the name "pitbull suicide") or a knife/axe/saw/spork that's within easy reach.
I lost my arm in a Pitbull Suicide last week after I couldn't release it from under the chick's gunt. I'll miss that arm, but I did get out of there without waking her up.