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Flailing

Living your life in uncertainty, or confusion. Acting, and doing things without clear purpose or a sense of what is needed but doing it anyway because you want to feel like you're doing something.
Becky "How have you been?'
Sam "Flailing, mostly."
Becky "Oh yup, did you finish that thing you had talked about?"
Sam "No, I don't have the right pieces, and I have no money, and if I don't get back to work soon I'm going to lose my apartment."
by high on ginger September 4, 2023
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Flail

n. A drug and alcohol and sleep deprivation induced state of repetitive tasking which often includes a state of paranoid fixation with paralyzing effects.

v. Creating or engaging in a flail.
"Don't you tell ME how to flail!"

"You have not flailed until you have used the flashlight on your phone to find your phone."

"The problem with female drug addicts is they always leave a flail trail wherever they go."

"Come on down to The Flailorama, The Flailodrome, Flailapalooza."

"The consierge down at the Flailing Arms is Flaily McFlailerson. He plays an instrument, the Ukeflailey: a flailey ukulele."

"If you fail to plan you plan to flail."

"Epic flailure!"

"Four flails to the wind."

"Let's march right down to the Provincial Flailulature. Or even the National Legisflailure."

"All ahead flail!"

"If you don't succeed, try to flail upwards!"

"The fourteenth flail's the charm."

"Birds of a feather flail together."

"It's not a backpack, it's a flail sack."

"Flail in your own sack. don't ask me to flail it. I carry a flail pouch, that's enough for me. Hell flailing my pockets is enough for me."

"Three fails forward, two flails back."

"Remember Mr. Dressup with Casey and Flailigan?"

"Library = Flailbrary"

"The legend of the flaily pants."

"You're flailed if you do, you're don't if you're flailed."

"Tommy Flailfiger."

"If at first you don't succeed flail and flail again."

"It's a flailing curve. Flailey's curve."

"It's the law of diminishing reflails."

"Home is where the flail is!"

"Life is not flailr at failall!"

"bEAUTY iS iN tHE eYE oF tHE fLAILhOLDER."

"We're not failures, we're FLAILURES!"

"Flailey's comet."

"The Flailcapades."
by plasticlax May 5, 2024
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Flail Mary

(video games) to risk using a melee attack in order to stay alive. This usually occurs when the player is low on ammunition or is due to reload, The odds of success are low but a successful attempt is often celebrated with a sigh of relief or an exuberant shout of victory.
Gamer one: " Remember that sweet flail Mary I pulled off last night? That totally won us the match."

Gamer Two: " You want a medal to go with that swelling head of yours? Get over yourself you poser."
by Knoxford English Dictionary January 12, 2015
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Flailing

The motion an octopus uses to get around. Often associated with having a stroke or other sudden muscle spasm.

How to: first, reach your arms out in front of you. Make sure there is a significant distance between them. Second, slowly move your elbows together and let your hands follow with a delay. Move your elbows outwards when there is about two inches between them. Once again let your hands follow with a delay. Let your elbows get far enough away from each other so you are now in a "going in for a hug" position. Repeat this process at a fast pace.
Person1: what's that guy doing?

Person: looks to me he's having a stroke or something, he's flailing like an octopus.
by [ ] May 12, 2017
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mexican flail

The waving arm movements of Hispanic women when they have had to much to drink.
She knocked the beer out of my hands with her Mexican flail
by Mexicanloving101 October 10, 2017
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Flail

To lash ones arms and or legs about in a seemingly uncontrollably and senseless manner while shuffling ones arms and legs, while high as hell on any number of illicit narcotics.
Kevin has been awake for like t days again and it looks like he is going to flail his way over here!
by Dawnhennessey May 28, 2022
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Flail

Verb: bougee white boys do this when under duress, only if their safe-space is unavailable. Flailing uses a large portion of energy, and most white boys do not have enough to successfully even piss IN The toilet, as opposed to ON the toilet.
Billy began to flail as he realized in his reflection, he now had a dicky-do.
by Ve12itas June 26, 2017
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