Refers to a non-startling strategy employed whenever you are unable to unobtrusively get someone's attention or make eye-contact with him for whatever reason (maybe he's deep in a book, concentrating hard on a household/carpentry task, or using noisy equipment, and thus he does not look up/around occasionally or hear/observe your presence) and so you start out to say hello by speaking very quietly, and then cautiously raising your voice little-by-little (like some modern-day alarm-clocks do so as to wake you "gently" instead of startling you out of a sound slumber with a full-blast ringer right away) till the previously-oblivious person eventually becomes aware of your proximity and glances up.
I'd wanted to ask my elderly neighbor about my possibly carpooling with him on his grocery-shopping trip the next day, but he was so busy using his riding lawnmower that he never noticed me despite my circling around in front of him several times, so I eventually used the gradual-ramp-up-volume greeting to finally get his attention.
by QuacksO August 22, 2018
Get the gradual-ramp-up-volume greetingmug. by Baslix October 20, 2017
Get the jerkers greetingmug. When two people are walking down the street and the two don't now how to acknoledge each other. One invariably says hi or how are you AS they pass and you have to pause turn around and yell a response or look like an ass for not saying anything.
by JackVicious June 12, 2009
Get the discreet greetmug. The act of tagging someone on an image based greeting card on Facebook.
Mostly known on social networking platforms like Facebook which allows a user to tag himself or others in an image.
Mostly known on social networking platforms like Facebook which allows a user to tag himself or others in an image.
by afahad September 7, 2010
Get the Greeting Tagmug. A piggyback birthday greeting is when someone wishes you a Happy Birthday on social media such as Facebook and another person leaves a Happy Birthday reply to that person's greeting (usually no relation or association to the person that made the original greeting) which to is the digital equivalent of signing someone else's physical birthday card who has no relation to you and you not getting your own card. It also throws off the birthday greeting count that Facebook provides.
I can't believe how many people don't know how to click on the Happy Birthday link on Facebook...they just leave a piggyback birthday greeting on someone's else's greeting that they have no relationship with. That's like signing someone else's birthday card!
by direct007a June 25, 2025
Get the piggyback birthday greetingmug. The word/phrase:
“Table: yeeted
Therapist: greeted
Holy-water: needed”
A expression used to express genuine concern or used in the new generations terms “fear”
“Table: yeeted
Therapist: greeted
Holy-water: needed”
A expression used to express genuine concern or used in the new generations terms “fear”
Person 1: how do you feel after looking at this photo? **shows picture of a cross-breed between an ohio spawn and a thing from SWEET HOME ALABAMA**
Person 2: table: yeeted, therapist: greeted, holy-water: needed.
Person 2: table: yeeted, therapist: greeted, holy-water: needed.
by Lunar enthusiast May 21, 2023
Get the Table: yeeted, therapist: greeted, holy-water: neededmug. An awkward half-greeting consisting of mouthing hello, with none or very little sound coming out. Only made worse when eye contact is made.
Shopper: *walks into store
Cashier: *sees someone
Cashier: "Hello!"
Shopper: "....(silent greeting)"
Cashier: "...."
Shopper: "...."
Cashier: ....can I help you?"
Cashier: *sees someone
Cashier: "Hello!"
Shopper: "....(silent greeting)"
Cashier: "...."
Shopper: "...."
Cashier: ....can I help you?"
by Garrbear570 July 13, 2011
Get the Silent Greetingmug.