person1: What do most people wear to listen to music privately?
person2: Headphones.
person1: Wrong! It's "Pile o' Junk"!
person2: Headphones.
person1: Wrong! It's "Pile o' Junk"!
by koksukcer July 21, 2019

One of the better Bluetooth headphones on the market at the moment especially for their price, have better anc than even the AirPods Max (I swear), aux in and up to 60 hours of battery life, 35 hours with anc on.
the nothing headphones (1) are better than the AirPods Max, sony wh 1000 xm6s and whatever other flagship Bluetooth headphones that are around.
by Rolls-Royce=Apple, GE=Samsung August 29, 2025

Someone who listens to loud/heavy/violent/extreme/etc music, but is forced to listen through headphones due to circumstance.
Guy one: Man, I love Metallica, but I have to listen with headphones because my mom hates it.
Guy two: I guess that makes you a Headphone Headbanger.
Guy two: I guess that makes you a Headphone Headbanger.
by awesome6241 September 28, 2017

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

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

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

by Amorion January 26, 2018
