A way to admonish a person who derails an Internet conversation by demanding the definition for commonly used words or phrases instead of taking a minute or two to simply look it up on Wikipedia.
"Last night I was playing WoW with some friends and these two Undead Rogues came out of nowhere and ganked me."
"What the hell is WoW and what is ganking?"
"WoW = World of Warcraft, ganking = player killing. Wikipedia is your friend, dude."
"What the hell is WoW and what is ganking?"
"WoW = World of Warcraft, ganking = player killing. Wikipedia is your friend, dude."
by shigelojoe April 23, 2006
Get the wikipedia is your friend mug.The state of continually following links from page to page on Wikipedia researching topics that grow progressively distant from the original page.
I started out looking for info on wombats and got stuck in wikipedia limbo. Six hours later I was reading about ancient Rome.
by A. M. Delmont December 9, 2008
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(n) When you start looking something up on wikipedia (usually something meaningful for a class or work) and end up clicking link after link of related topics in each article, until you've ended up on something completely unrelated and wasted a large amount of time on information you forget 1 hour later.
I started looking up micro albumin but went on a three hour wikipedia journey until I ended up on anal intercourse.
by Kumbo January 10, 2012
Get the wikipedia journey mug.Tom: Craig... You're such a Wikipedia Whore! How the hell can you overuse Wikipedia! It's userbased!!
Craig: You're userbased!
Tom: That doesn't make any sense ...
Craig: You're userbased!
Tom: That doesn't make any sense ...
by Info-nator October 23, 2007
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Polar bears are left handed? I didn't know that, wait, I just felt the Wikipedia tingle, let me look that up.
by FWMFTW July 6, 2008
Get the Wikipedia Tingle mug.A Wikipedia-Spree is an extend period of time in which an individual constantly reads Wikipedia pages, jumping from one page to the next, motivated by curiosity. Usually the individual has no intentions of reading any of the Wikipedia pages they do read. The individual often looses track of time, only to find himself much more knowledge-full about useless knowledge.
"I totally didn't get my assignment done last night, I ended up going on a huge Wikipedia-spree for hours. On a brighter note I now know that the oldest hotel in the world was established in the year 718."
by Corn-pop March 23, 2010
Get the Wikipedia-Spree mug."I can't believe how much Jack Black looks like Paul Revere."
"How do you know what Paul Revere looks like?"
"Wikipedi-duh."
"How do you know what Paul Revere looks like?"
"Wikipedi-duh."
by Jenodd March 23, 2011
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