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.
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.
Person: looks to me he's having a stroke or something, he's flailing like an octopus.
by [ ] May 12, 2017
Get the Flailingmug. A sex move that can only be done by flailing your arms around like one of those inflatable wacky guys at your local Oil Change shop.
It is also a Family Guy Cutaway Gag in the style of the Billy Mays' Oxy-Clean commercials, with the name Al Harrington's Wacky Waving Inflatable Arm-Flailing Tube Man Emporium and Warehouse.
It is also a Family Guy Cutaway Gag in the style of the Billy Mays' Oxy-Clean commercials, with the name Al Harrington's Wacky Waving Inflatable Arm-Flailing Tube Man Emporium and Warehouse.
Zach: Dude, I gave my girlfriend a Wacky Waving Inflatable Arm-Flailing Tube Man last night.
Mike: Cool.
Mike: Cool.
by AlHarringtonWackyWavingTubeMen February 26, 2024
Get the wacky waving inflatable arm-flailing tube manmug. 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.
by Ve12itas June 26, 2017
Get the Flailmug. by 14kkk88 December 2, 2018
Get the Plague Flailmug. 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
Get the Flailmug. 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."
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
Get the Flailingmug. A bar flai is someone who frequents bars looking for drugs because the local dealers don’t want to deal with them.
by Eff security April 5, 2019
Get the bar flailmug.