rubberbanding 

This occurs in online gaming when latency is relatively high. Players (or yourself) will appear to move in one direction, and then suddenly be teleported back several feet where they once were a few seconds ago.

This can be extremely annoying in twitch-based online games such as first person shooters, as it will hinder one's aiming and shooting. Rubberbanding also plagues MMOs, particularily in extremely filled servers with poor hardware configurations. While it isn't as damaging in an MMO environment, rubberbanding still takes away from the overall gaming experience and if at all possible, should be avoided.

CS-Sniper: WTF!!! server is rubberbanding pPLaYERS I cANT SHOOT SH*T... OMfg I JUST GOt HEADSHOTTED WTF OMG11!!!

rubberbanding by Stephen A. January 2, 2006

rubberband man 

drug dealer; one who stores their cash tied by a rubberband

rubberband man, wild as the tailiban

rubberband man by tha rubberman band March 25, 2004

Rubberbanding 

When someone in an online video game teleports back to where they were before because of lag.

Packet loss or generally bad internet is usually the cause of this problem. To make the game feel less laggy, when the game client sends packets to the server about your character moving, it will show your character moving on your screen before it has actually verified that the server knows you moved. In rare cases, those packets are not received by the server because of packet loss or just delayed by a large amount of time because of high ping. In that case, the server doesn't know your character moved and will sooner or later send back a packet telling the client about the actual position of the character (the position you were last time the server received a packet). On your screen , it will then look like you suddenly teleported back but the server thinks you were always at the position you teleported to.

"I keep rubberbanding all the time, it's really annoying!"

Rubberbanding by  April 9, 2020

Rubberbandanimania 

An obsession with rubber band animal bracelets; a rare obsession but can occur

Person 1- Wow! You are wearing a lot of rubber band shaped like animals.

Person 2- Yeah, I have been diagnosed with rubberbandanimania

Rubberbandanimania by InoPEEPSwithRUBBERBANDANIMANIA March 16, 2010

Rubberbanding 

A term mostly used in Racing Games where when ahead of an A.I. opponent, they'll most likely all of a sudden go faster than you and pass you as well. The most infamous example of this case (Although the games are actually good, not bad) are the NFS games of the EA Black Box era, even on the easiest difficulty.

Me: Ah, nothing like doing an Easy mode race on Need for Speed Underground!

*Suddenly halfway the race the A.I. starts to Rubberband, pass you right before the finish line and you lose*

Me: I fucking hate Rubberbanding...

Rubberbanding by NepgearAfficionado February 12, 2023

Rubberband Man 

1. Everyone's favoured musician

2. Someone who sells drugs and keeps his money sealed with a rubber-band
3. A man who sells rubber-bands

Rubberband Man

1. ''Hey did you see that short fat guy who stretched a band between his toes? But hey I laughed so hard because the man got down when it finally reached his nose!''

2. ''Hey did you see the Rubber-Band Man anywhere? I am having withdrawals, I need that okie-coke''

3. ''did you see the Rubber-Band Man around the corner? He has White bands, Blue Bands, Red Bands and a lot more its crazy!''

Rubberband Man by angry toast but scottish April 9, 2023

rubberband man 

One who comes up through the struggle.

TI is the rubberband man most def...he hustled and now he's doin it big in the rap game.

rubberband man by JSchweezie September 25, 2006