by Mike April 21, 2004
An ailment causing real or imagined nausea, fainting, or dizziness on the part of Victorian women or women of similar delicate sensitivity. The cause is something seen or heard which so offends their modesty, there is no response they are capable of uttering. Typically a matter of sexual or cultural taboo is being violated, such as the mention of a sexual or excretory organ in conversation.
1. When Larry Summers claimed that men may have a greater innate ability in math than women, MIT biologist Nancy Hopkins had the vapors. In her own words she later explained "if I hadn't left, I would've either blacked out or thrown up."
2. The reaction of characters played by Margaret Dumont in the films of the Marx Brothers to something shocking.
2. The reaction of characters played by Margaret Dumont in the films of the Marx Brothers to something shocking.
by patsw May 16, 2009
Taking a newfangled and opportunistic liking to someone only after that person became successful. The subject of Biz Markie's song, "Vapors."
She wouldn't even talk to me in high school, and now she's sitting on my lap in my Cadillac. She caught the vapors.
by Makaveli65 September 25, 2010
A Vaporizer is a tool that allows you to smoke Marijuana without burning any plant matter, which allows for just the active ingredients in Marijuana (THC) to be released into a chamber which is then inhaled.
by Ami Z March 16, 2006
Very similar to being vaporized, but much more painful. The resulting particles are also smaller than the particles left behind from vaporization.
"Did you just see that!? That monster vaporated Melvin! All that's left is a cloud of dust... Man, sucks to be him."
by Andrew Morgan August 8, 2005
by Juanito Alimaña August 19, 2010
by David Koresh June 2, 2005