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check hostage

Waiting for your bill at a restaurant, and it's taking forever. You're a check hostage
I'm stuck here at the table waiting here, I'm that waitress has us check hostaged.
by bippi April 4, 2015
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Hostage concern

The concern shown in a conversation when someone continuously brings up a personal crisis until the other parties are coerced to acknowledge and sympathize with the other person's issue.
James always finds a way to bring his financial problems into our conversations and won't stop until I show some hostage concern.
by elHORNO June 15, 2010
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hostage selfie

1. A selfie of you and someone you pulled into the photo without their prior knowledge, consent, or expectation.

2. A selfie that you take by sneaking up on someone as they're taking a selfie of themselves, grabbing them like a hostage-taker, and snapping the photo for them.
Dude: Bro, do you dare me to go up to that girl and take a hostage selfie?
Other dude: Bro, that'd be awesome. She'll never expect it.

Girl: Bro, that guy is taking selfies. Dare me to run up behind him and take a hostage selfie with his phone?
Other girl: Bro, that'd be awesome. He'll never expect it.
by Snap Captor January 22, 2016
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Hostage Swarm

When a hostage discovers the door is unlocked and the other hostages find out. Hostage swarms only occur when there are many hostages. Some hostages may die in a hostage swarm. If you find yourself in a hostage swarm, pretend to be a captor so they run away from you.
My uncle Terry almost died in the hostage swarm the other day!
by wisewolf64 June 10, 2018
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hostage talker

Someone who starts a conversation with you when in fact you have no wish to speak to them, then talks for ages without giving you an opportunity to excuse yourself without appearing rude.

Hostage talkers either enjoy making you uncomfortable or are completely oblivious to the fact that they are not wanted. People likely to be hostage talkers are mothers, younger brothers, bosses or people to whom you owe money.
Dave: Why isn't Mike here yet?
Steve: I think he ran into Linda in the hallway.
Dave: Damn, then he'll be ages. She's a hostage talker.
by George McBob June 9, 2009
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Free the hostages

Letting a fart go after holding many in due to being in the company of someone
I had been with my girlfriend and her parents all day. My stomach was aching due to holding the farts in fart napping, so I couldn't wait to leave the house and free the hostages.
by thelaird1 October 27, 2010
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Hostage crisis

- "hang on, I'll be right back. I've got a hostage crisis"
- "I had a sucsessful hostage relese"
- "The hostage crisis was a rough one. the release didn't go as planed."
by Timmay33 October 13, 2006
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