collateral benefit

Deriving intended or unintended advantage from a main-event happening.

He wrote a letter to the editor about the Vancouver June 2011 riots in which he mentioned how things were so different in 1972 when Canada beat USSR in the Summit Series and Asian-origin refugees from Uganda's Idi Amin got admitted to Canada as a collateral benefit of the euphoria. In doing this he subtly mentioned that the item had been covered in his forthcoming book on Uganda Asians, thus deriving collateral benefit for his publication.

by vivauganda June 22, 2011

collateral snatch

Like being hit as collateral damage...getting chicks by being in the company of a female friend.

John went out drinking with a lesbian coworker...but she attracts alot of female attention, and he got hit with some collateral snatch.

by mike1001 November 15, 2011

collateral wetness

When any part of your body gets wet after pulling a ball from a beer pong cup.

Samuel: "Dude why was your hand so wet when we shook hands after that last game?"

Danny: "It must have been the collateral wetness."

by Cart-Cart McJerrywink March 12, 2014

Collateral Wave

The manner in which an innocent bystander intercepts a "wave" or a greeting intended for someone immediately adjacent to them by accident and creates an awkward situation.

"Did you see that poor kid in front of Troy get the old collateral wave from Brian in the dining hall?"

by Alfred Boner III October 11, 2014

Collaterall

When you borrow something or someone borrows something from you so you both take something from eachother and then if something happens to your object then you keep theirs and vice versa

I'm going to take your watch as a collaterall for taking my belt

by Sld30328 July 13, 2017

collateral friend

Someone all your friends like so you act like you like them too even though you'd never hang out with just them. A friend of a friend who you feel obliged to invite to group gatherings so as not to offend your actual friends. Includes friend's significant others.

Yeah honey, I've invited Jerry, Dave and George, guess we better invite our collateral friend too. What's Steve's number again?

by Aylusia October 23, 2017

Collateral Drama

\ kə-ˈla-t(ə-)rəl ˌ ˈdrä-mə , ˈdra-\ -- Anxieties induced by over exposure to the troubles, trials, and tribulations, incessantly retold by friends and co-workers.

Jobie was asked, by her manager, to work from home, as her personal life was causing too much collateral drama within the tightly knit cubical workspace.

by Rambose Fierce August 16, 2018