alpha effect

When the Alpha Male is out of "Range". The Beta Males try any method possible to become the Alpha Male in his absence.

Example~ Texting and DM-ing his Alpha Female as soon as the Alpha Male is out of Range.

You Have That "Alpha Effect" on People

by Mary Jane1313 August 19, 2020

Hollywood Effect

Using a celebrity or high profile individual to add status, glamour, or recognition to a project.

Usually advertising, a charity or a religion.

If we are gonna sell this shit to the public we need to add the Hollywood Effect.

This cult must be a real religion because it has a Hollywood actor as a member.

I'm gonna buy this product because - insert name - uses it.

advertising marketing public relations voice overs celebrity endorsment religion kabbalah scientology viral politics meme propaganda anonymous Tom Cruise Madonna

by wordupsucker March 14, 2010

Pygmalion Effect

The Pygmalion Effect explains that people tend to perform up to the level that others expect of them. This effect explains why our relationships are usually self-fulfilling prophecies. Once you set expectations for somebody, that person will tend to live up to that expectation, whether it's good or bad.
But the Pygmalion Effect also applies to your personal growth. Your beliefs about yourself impact your actions towards others, which influence their beliefs about you and their actions towards you.

Positive expectations influence performance positively, and negative expectations influence performance negatively. ... In educational circles, this has been termed the Pygmalion Effect, or more colloquially, a self-fulfilling prophecy.

by Pygma November 22, 2021

school effect

The shitty feeling you get when u wake up to go to school Mainly the first day of school. Whenever a person thinks about the word school during the final days of their summer vacation it instills them with great fear, that it is so painful and can be described as stomach churning, numbness of their legs, and often making them extremely tired and might be so strong they faint.

*School effect*Ah shit here we go again

by Mph August 26, 2019

The Fredy Effect

The result of being coerced into “1 to 2” alcoholic beverages after a night at work. These 1 or 2 beverages then become an evening/morning of intense intoxication with drug usage. This effect will indefinitely result in multiple “afters” and wanting to die or quit your job the next morning.

I got hit with The Fredy Effect last night. I was 2 hours late to work and I want to die.

by TophatTopher July 3, 2023

The Sands Effect

The Sands Effect occurs when you spend a night out drinking and get lucky enough to bring a girl back to your place. You only got the girl over because you were drunk and loose and free of any pressure. But because you were drunk your cock stays limp as if it were filled with sand. And because of this, sex is not and option. You go out the next night without drinking hoping to get the same girl over once more. You see the girl and at first she seems willing, but sober you is not good enough to get the girl over. So that night you go home with a cock harder than a rock, but with no female, only your left hand. And that ladies and gentleman is the sands effect.

One week into college Mateo had suffered The Sands Effect on three different occasions.

by Willy Boof September 18, 2019

Bin Effect

The process by which an eBay seller, after seeing another seller's Buy it Now (BiN) price, lists their own similar item for a higher price.

Responsible for most eBay price inflations and the reselling market in general.
Doesn't have to apply to eBay, can also apply to brick-and-mortar stores and markets.

I can never find deals at pawn shops or thrift stores anymore due to the bin effect.

by Vee Are Trooper March 10, 2014