A friend of the opposite gender, with whom you have no sexual tension or chemistry. Deinfed in the footnotes of Douglas Coupland's book Generation X. A nonsexual friendship with a member of the opposite sex. Douglas Coupland later admitted to being gay.
Natalie and Scott sat on the couch, watching a movie in his dimly lit basement.
Although they were both straight, and not signifigantly unattractive people, their relationship was completely nonsexual.
Natalie: You're my favorite Platonic Shadow, M'dear.
Scott: You made that term up, didn't you?
N: It's from a book by Douglas Coupland.
S: I don't care, I'm trying to watch this shitty movie.
N: Sorry.
Although they were both straight, and not signifigantly unattractive people, their relationship was completely nonsexual.
Natalie: You're my favorite Platonic Shadow, M'dear.
Scott: You made that term up, didn't you?
N: It's from a book by Douglas Coupland.
S: I don't care, I'm trying to watch this shitty movie.
N: Sorry.
by NatalieFack. August 28, 2007
friends without benefits - platonic friends
by Steve to the izzo November 07, 2008
A nice way for a woman to say he is a dick in a glass jar waiting to be busted open at any ginen moment...
Mandy dates Charlie and clams Bob to be her platonic friend, however if Charlie steps out of lines one more time Mandy will bust open her dick in a glass jar!
by andamay August 08, 2006
by heaaaanaaay July 12, 2016
To be overshadowed by your best-friend's other friends in friend-level.
"anyways, do you know that feeling when your best friend has better best friends, so you have that feeling of perpetual loneliness even though you have plenty of people to talk to?"
"You're such a platonic cuck."
"You're such a platonic cuck."
by n3wooln3wool April 11, 2017
That one friend that's always on top of everything, he always has plans prepared, always ready to go out, always the social one, typically more extroverted than you.
"Ask Richard for tonight's plans, the dudes the platonic top of this friendship, I let him handle everything."
by Azeban September 13, 2020
The twitch streamers ThatBakiri and Flawxen should get their platonic marriage legalized so they can commit tax fraud.
by NOT younicorn November 26, 2021