headphone bluffing

Wearing a pair of headphones, typically within the context of a group of people studying, without actually playing music. The benefit of headphone bluffing is that people typically won't talk to you but you can still hear everything that is going on, therefore allowing you to be passively engaged in conversations of your choosing.

"Yo, I want to talk to Lucas but his headphones are in!"
"Look out, he might be headphone bluffing! You listening in, Luke?"

by BeardStrong April 26, 2014

Headphone Scotty

When you wear headphones to not have to deal with certain situations or to ignore others.

So where is your son? He is in his room being a headphone Scotty .

by JokeMeOff November 24, 2016

Headphone Jack

The beloved 3.5mm audio port that Apple unjustifiably removed from the iPhone in 2016 which caused a whole domino effect to happen. Eight years later, and most flagships or even mid-range phones lack this basic port. Apple and other manufacturers fabricate lies such as "waterproofing" to fool the masses into believing it was justified.

Economic and financial gains such as cost-cutting and driving sales for bluetooth earbuds are the main motives for the removal.

Literally nobody:

Apple: "Let's all remove this essential port that billions of people use because we love cost-cutting!"

Interesting fact: LG was the only smartphone brand to have kept the headphone jack on all their phones until their demise in 2021

by Mary Mary Quite The Contrarian November 21, 2024

headphone incontinence

the socially inappropriate incapacity to keep the noise from one's headphones from leaking all over nearby people (e.g., bus/subway/train passengers, coworkers)

The quiet car is sometimes soaked with headphone incontinence.

by human unit 19NN-NN-NNTNN:NN:NN January 6, 2015

headphones excuse

Refers to your wearing a personal music-device that uses a headset of some sort, and then "blaming it on that" whenever someone complains that you appear to be ignoring him, when of course in reality you actually heard what he said just fine because **the headphones weren't even playing at the time**, but you were merely practicing "selective deafness" because you didn't happen to like what he had to say, and so you did not wish to respond to and/or be affected by whatever he was telling you.

The headphones excuse can also be "used in reverse" in instances where you are being compelled to be present during a speech, lecture, tirade, etc., and you cannot bear to listen to said boring/controversial/voluminous b**ls**t for even a few seconds... what you do, therefore, is clip on your headphone-based music-device that's hidden inside an outer plastic cabinet that you have boldly labelled, "personal amplified listening device", so that the speaker and anyone else present will think that you are just wanting to ensure that you'll be clearly hearing every single word that the self-important gabber is saying, when in reality you are using the headphones to DROWN HIM OUT so that you won't either need a straitjacket or commit mass-homicide halfway through said extended monologue. It's a vital accessory if you're being "drugged as a child" because your parents "drug you to church".

by QuacksO September 10, 2018

Headphone Savage

A person who do savage things while wearing headphones like smoking weed and flexing with guns

Yo he a headphone savage cause he doing wat savage does

by Amorion January 26, 2018

Office Headphone Syndrome

When many colleagues in the office wear headphones almost constantly, appearing busy and unavailable for collaboration.

My team at work has office headphone syndrome. We work in the same room and supposed to collaborate with each other, but many people wear headphones almost constantly while working on the computer and appear busy and inaccessible. It's awkward to constantly ask them to take off their headphones, so they're effectively absent, as if they're working remotely.

by Kentich January 4, 2024