holiday orphan

A holiday orphan is someone who is forced to spend a holiday alone because they have no immediate family living in the same city or state where they live.

I am a holiday orphan forced to spend this Thanksgiving and Christmas alone because I live in North Carolina all of my family resides back in Wisconsin.

by C Tasch November 24, 2022

Orphan Squad

A fun squad of orphans just causing chaos wherever they go. And sometimes they make themselves bigger by making more orphans.

Ex: BRO! our orphan squad just got bigger. Let's make more orphans.

by Zii-- April 24, 2021

Orphan Seat

A seat in a movie theater auditorium that is open but undesirable because person(s) in seat to the left or right are occupied.

The only seat available in auditorium 8 is an orphan seat in the middle of row H.

by iatebreakfast September 1, 2016

Give it to the orphans.

Phrase letting convenience store clerks know that you don't want to wait the 8 seconds for your change and that they should instead just drop it into the charity bucket after you leave.

Tom: "Just the one 40 of Old English please."
Clerk: "That'll be $2.50."
Tom: *gives $3
Tom: "Give it to the orphans."
Tom: *walks out.

by sean90 June 26, 2014

Orphan mod

A nickname for someone, usually someone who is an orphan and a discord mod.

Person 1: Hey orphan mod!
Person 2: Hey!

by Theeriver October 18, 2022

Corporate Orphan

Noun: When all the members of your immediate team at work either resign, change roles, or are fired leaving you all by yourself because roles never get backfilled.

Tanner: Ugh, Tom, James, Megan and Joe all left the team. Now I have no team and have to do 5 jobs. I'm such a corporate orphan :(

by E60 - S85 January 13, 2022

Corporate Orphan

When someone in a company has all of their internal sponsors fired leaving them with no support from upper management.

Damn, John and Richard both got fired, guess I am a corporate orphan now.

by Gangsta Billy September 5, 2018