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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
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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
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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
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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
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Collateral Dance

1. Noun
Noun: Collateral Dance; Plural noun: Collateral Dances

1. Unwilling bystander who doesn't want participate in a dance, but nevertheless gets involved by influences from peer pressure, drunk party-goers and other external sources.

2. Verb
Verb: Collateral Dance; 3rd person present: Collateral Dances; past tense: Collateral Danced; past participle: Collateral Danced; gerund or present participle: Collateral Dancing

1. The act of involving an unwilling bystander in a (group)dance, thereby making this victim a Collateral Dance.
1.1.
"John wasn't planning to join in on the Macarena, but when his drunk friends pulled him in the middle of the dancefloor he just had to dance."

"Yeah man, he totally was a Collateral Dance"

2.1.
"Dude, Danielle has been sticking to her seat all night, we should totally get her on the dancefloor!"

"Oh my god yes, we just have to Collateral Dance her"
by DJ dictionary October 27, 2018
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collateral benefit

a military act with an unintended favorable consequence
every landmine the invaders laid turned out to be duds which were eventually harvested, recycled, monetized and repurposed by the oppressed victims into arms they were able to fashion into

The area of land bombed by their adversary was host to an invasive species that threatened the livestock of the entire region providing a collateral benefit to the survivors in the aftermath.
by Hermathecles January 17, 2020
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Collateral blockage

When you piss off a user on social media enough that every one in the thread that agrees with you is blocked.
Everyone that 'liked' my reply became collateral blockage.
by Mr. Grime February 21, 2020
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