The art of distancing a "lover", or good friend in an orbital space. Not too far, not too close. When they get too far, you pull them back in, when they get too close, you push them back out into the "safe zone". This keeps the person in your life, exactly where you want them.
The bitch wants to get married, and I don't. The sex is great, but I'm just not ready for commitment. "Safe Zoning" her would be to ignore or be non-committal to her emails and phone calls and when you've totally pissed her off, send her a dozen roses, fuck her, and repeat the cycle.
A reference to Super Mario Brothers in which a player would skip several levels in order to achieve the ultimate objective of saving the princess. More generally, it refers to someone who wants to achieve a goal more easily than he otherwise could by stacking the odds in his favor or by skipping steps that would ordinarily be required.
Zoning..... is where you stare at something, completely oblivious to the world around you, and oblivious to the fact that you are staring at something, whilst either thinking about nothing and being in a kind of trance, or being in deep thought. "Zones" can last either a few seconds or a few mins. At the end of it, you suddenly realise your zoning and snap out of it, coming back to the real world
The zone between friendzoning and relationship zoning. When someone doesn't really like you but could see where it goes and there is the possibility of liking you. They could maybe like you.
Joe: She's kinda cute but I'm not sure if I like her.
Matt: Just middle zone her bro!!!
Joe: What does that mean?
Matt: Just flirt with her sometimes and see how she reacts when you flirt with her and when you don't!
Joe: So like friendzoning?
Matt: It's like friendzoning and relationship zoning!
Middle Zoning: In the middle of friendzoning and relationship zoning.