When the same course of events happens repeatedly, despite attemps to to stop or change it.
Background: Expression is derived from the original Super Mario Brothers game on Nintendo. Some of the Bowser's Castle levels were 'repeating castles', where the same sequence of screen would repeate continually until the player performed the neccessary sequance of actions to get out of the repetition.
As Joe and Jon walked back to their campsite, they past what looked like the same tree at least three or four times before making it back.
"Fuck, I hope we get out of this repeating castle before dark," said Joe.
Someone who repeats something you said sarcastically thinking they sound cool and try to make you look dumb, but end up looking like a fag for doing it.
Boy: "I did really good on my test! I got a 95 percent!"
(n.) Any unfortunate event that closely resembles a prior one, that could have been avoided had people payed attention to history.
The Conservative governments' idea to re-introduce poll tax in the 80s was history repeating itself, as the peasants revolted as they did over 600 years before. Only now, they had workers' unions and a mortgage.