cultural whiplash

When you're watching something on television and there is an abrupt genre change.

I was watching tv and the same channel went from 700 Club to Paul Blart, Mall cop. Talk about your "cultural whiplash"!

by Hal 10000 March 11, 2019

WHIPLASH PANTS

Pants belonging to Whiplash..

I am currently dating Whiplash Pants.
Sew Also: Yancey pants,

Addicted to Angela Lansbury Porn.

See: Shelby or Fat Baby.
Also, My Ass and my Love

by Whiplash by Richard Jeff Yance March 28, 2022

season whiplash

When something happens in a specific season in a series that you watch that happens so fast, you can't process it right away and it's a pain to connect the dots.

Person 1: Did you see that season of (insert your favorite series here)? Man, it gave me season whiplash.
Person 2: Same. The entire season was rushed. I got a headache just trying to understand it all.

by BittersweetGirl October 2, 2018

Whiplash

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

Opinion Whiplash

The term used to describe the confusion felt from a person’s rapidly changing and often confusing opinions on media changing in short succession. (e.g praise to extreme hatred, hatred to ridiculous glazing)

“Man, this shit is fucking terrible. I hate everything about it.”

“Dude, you gushed about how much you loved it a day ago, wtf??? You’re giving me extreme Opinion Whiplash.”

by Male_02 January 18, 2025

shower whiplash

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

Verbal Whiplash

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