Stage Five Clinger

1. A potential romantic and/or sexual interest who quickly reveals him or herself to be too forward and needy. A pursuit that one suddenly realizes one must at once stop pursuing because they have, in turn, become the pursued. Fatal attraction to the extreme, indicated, most often, by excessive communication across various media, simultaneously (texting, email, Facebook, Twitter, postal mail, showing up at your place of work and/or school, phoning you, until you finally reply, and often relentlessly even if/when you do).

2. Also, Stage 5 Clinger. Same meaning as above; a person to whom one is not mutually attracted, at least not near so intensely or desperately. A person who makes inordinate assumptions of commitment and intimacy when in reality there is absolutely none, since both parties have not logically had enough time to commit or get close, nor shall they due to the clinginess.

1. "Bro, the date last night with Cheryl bombed majorly--total Stage Five Clinger. Woke up this morning to 563 texts and the emails are still comin' in...wants me to meet her parents and be her 'first'...."

2. "Ugh. Stage 5 Clinger. 'Nuff said!"

Stage Five Clinger by PicklePuss November 15, 2013

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stage five clinger

A member of the opposite sex that is likely to become overly attached, overly fast. Virgins, those on the rebound, and the emotionally fragile are more likely to have this term applied to them. Orignally from the movie Wedding Crashers.

We need to get Nick away from that chick. She's a stage five clinger.

We've got a stage five clinger situation. I need someone running interference on the blonde behind me, now.

I nailed that chick last weekend and seriously regret giving her my number - I'm getting 2 or 3 calls a day. I think what we've got ourselves here is a stage five clinger.

stage five clinger by Dan Everett April 26, 2006