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The effect where thinking about dates coinciding with the fasting month of Ramadan like Tuesday, April 2nd 1991 or Tuesday, April 2nd 2024 can cause you to experience hunger
The placebo effect of thinking about significant dates coinciding with the fasting month of Ramadan, like Tuesday, April 2nd, 1991, can make you feel hungrier than you actually are, proving that sometimes your mind can trick your body!
by Emotional Cruiser November 22, 2025
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Developer Placebo

Developer Placebo is term said to substances that are believed to increase and improve your software development skills but don't really. An example f these substances could be dark chocolate, Cheese Doritos, matcha, everything vegan
Mike: Yooo bro you should start drinking match, you will be a better software developer
Kyle: No man I became a vegan and I'm writing better software ever since!

John: Guys. You know that is just developer placebo, right?
by TamimiUrban July 31, 2019
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Placebo-Sneeze

When you're very sure you're going to sneeze but instead; you don't, leaving one either very pleased or very sad.
I for one love a good sneeze therefore, I am sad.
"Oh jeez, i thought i was going to sneeze but i didn't, damn PLACEBO-SNEEZE"
by ITalkToTrees November 28, 2025
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Placebo placenta

When a girl has an abortion, but they leave in the placenta, so anytime she pees she thinks the placenta comes out, even though it actually doesn't
She had a placebo placenta after her third abortion of Josh w's baby
by J768977i9 May 24, 2016
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Placebos

Blonde Girl: Your medication, they’re placebos
Eddie: What’s gazebo (Placebo) mean?
Blonde girl: Placebo means bullshit.
by AyoThePizzaHere June 17, 2021
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Placebo Antivirus

Also called Placebo Antimalware.

An antivirus program that "detects" fake malware to make it seem like it works.

Origin: A placebo is something that you are told works and seems to be working but actually doesn't do anything.
Most, if not all, antivirus programs were placebo antivirus programs until there was a surge in viruses made by people who decompiled their code.
by Shugunou October 3, 2023
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placebo

Placebo means BULLSHIT! They can also be referred to as gazebos.

Actually they’re fake medication/drugs.
-They’re placebos.
-Placebo means bullshit.

You know what these are, THEY’RE GAZEBOS, THEY’RE BULLSHIT!
by SwedishYoungGlucoseGuardian October 30, 2019
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