Did you see that? I told Luigi not to slurp his noodles but he just gave himself Spaghetti Whiplash!
by JohnnyApocalypse August 31, 2014
Get the Spaghetti Whiplashmug. When someone calls your name, and you turn your head rapidly to respond, but they were actually talking to someone else.
VERBAL WHIPLASH: Say your name is "Gaylord". You're walking down the street and you hear someone say "Gaylord". You react as though they are talking to you, but they are actually talking to their friend, Gaylord.
by invicta9110 July 7, 2011
Get the Verbal Whiplashmug. The shock you feel when you mistakenly turn the shower temperature down, causing you to immediately whip the handle too far in the opposite direction, thus freezing you to a popsicle and then boiling you alive in the matter of a split second.
That shower whiplash had me streaking through the house... Now I have to explain things to my mother.
by ThrillingHeroics December 7, 2017
Get the shower whiplashmug. An eighteen-minute short film that follows the journey of an ambitious music student and an aspiring jazz drummer, capturing their intense relationship. This short film's success leads to it being expanded into a 108-minute feature film, exploring themes of ambition, discipline, and the pursuit of excellence in music.
After watching the short film Whiplash, I was blown away by how it perfectly captured the struggle of an aspiring drummer, and I couldn’t believe it got turned into a full-length feature.
by Emotional Cruiser August 8, 2025
Get the Whiplashmug. The emotional breakdown that you experience as you never hear your parents saying "Good job" as they blatantly believe in the quote from the 2014 movie Whiplash saying "There are no two words in the English language more harmful than 'good job'."
After years of chasing approval and never getting a 'Good job,' I finally hit a wall—talk about Emotional Whiplash!
by Emotional Cruiser September 21, 2025
Get the emotional whiplashmug. The disorienting physical and psychological effects caused by rapid, large changes in temperatures - especially when going from warm weather freezing temperatures. The condition be experienced by an individual during air travel between locations or at the same location during major weather fronts. Those with allergies, back, joint, or other musculoskeletal disorders may experience aggravated symptoms.
Austin went from 88 degrees on Tuesday to 32 degrees on Wednesday, resulting in many people in the area suffering from weather whiplash as their bodies try to adjust.
by SynapseTX February 24, 2022
Get the weather whiplashmug. the concussive effect of the violent mental jerking produced in a listener/reader by the proximal presentation of two wildly incongruous thoughts, ideas, or statements.
"Listening to Herman Cain opine on both soul food and foreign policy left me with a serious case of cognitive whiplash."
by Paper Tiger March 16, 2012
Get the cognitive whiplashmug.