When a person on a date escapes, ghosting the other person mid-date, leaving them abandoned and befuddled.
I met her at a classy restaurant, she's there maybe five minutes and says she needs the ladies room, and then she Shawshanked me, leaving me with like 15 White Castle burgers I had to eat on my own.
by Harry the Horrible February 09, 2021
While talking to my girlfriend, I made a reference to the escape scene in The Shawshank Redemption, but it turned out she had never seen the movie. I had simply made the Shawshank Assumption that she had.
by Vesto2000 September 09, 2021
by Leckdon August 17, 2019
Person 1: “Hey, I heard Jimmy pulled a Shawshank in English yesterday.”
Person 2: “Sick! One day I’d love to skip a class like that.”
Person 2: “Sick! One day I’d love to skip a class like that.”
by YellowBinLorry May 24, 2023
by Marry Swanson August 31, 2021