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.
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What you say in response to someone who sneezes around Christmas time. A wordplay on the expression “Season’s greetings.”
by Dcstrutter December 18, 2023
Get the sneezin’s greetings mug.An annoying form of greeting that is pointless and does not invite more conversation. Typically done when someone is crossing another person's path.
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The only response that you can give in the time given to respond to a drive by greeting
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by LadyLilith December 19, 2024
Get the Drive by greeting mug.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!
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