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second-generation enabling

Refers to either of two equally-unhealthy practices that seemingly "skips a place" in the chain of progression, but has a comparably-negative result --- Person A acts as a financial "crutch" for Person B, allowing Person B to continue his dissipative lifestyle:
(1) Where you do not beg resources directly (i.e., "first generation" enabling) from a financially-solvent person who is sick of your mooching, but you instead ask your "benefactor" to extend charity to your equally "spongy" offspring (i.e., you shamelessly take advantage of the person's "family man" nature by using the pathetically-manipulative "cute cherub-faced kiddos" or "they'll only be young once, so I wanna give them a decent childhood" pressure-excuse), or
(2) You don't request a certain amount of money --- say, twenty bucks --- from the disgruntled "provider" for "excessive/addictive/self-abusive" products (i.e., tobacco, alcohol, lottery tickets, unnecessary "pretty things", etc.) that he refuses to provide you with, but you instead ask him for that same twenty bucks to purchase "basic necessities" like simple groceries or household/repair products that he HAS agreed to help you out with obtaining... the catch, of course, is that you spend your OWN twenty bucks on those other unhealthy/senseless purchases instead of spending it on the healthful basics that your friend is giving you money for, and so in the end you are still getting him to make it possible for you to continue your unwise/unhealthy lifestyle.
Be wary of anyone who agreeably says, "Okay, fine --- I won't ask you for any more money for unhealthy stuff; I'll use my own funds for them. But please do give me some money for those "basic necessities" that you said you WOULD buy for me." Well, don't you see --- that's really the same destructive deal when all's said and done --- oh, sure, the person may indeed not be "directly" asking you to buy him cigarettes, but the person is merely using the last of his **own** money for them, and then asking you for money to buy the groceries that he himself could have purchased if he hadn't spent his last dollar on coffin-nails! It doesn't really matter where your added funds are "injected:" into the person's budget --- it's still just second-generation enabling!
by QuacksO June 8, 2018
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Ten Second Rule

A rule often employed for those who seem to be over-exuberant or too comfortable in their surroundings. 10 seconds before you start speaking, stop.
Shut up or I'll be forced to implement the ten second rule!
by old gregg 1 January 23, 2011
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The special second

This is the second when one knows they will certainly be having an orgasm and they can celebrate the certainty of it occurring until it does.
As Millie was taking matters into her own hands thinking about that certain someone, she overheard an Owl hoot outside. This took her masturbation to a whole new level and she was soon delirious with the special second. Her orgasm drained her and she soon fell asleep sitting on the toilet in the Dairy Queen.
by von groovy August 22, 2024
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Second

by KRob April 20, 2019
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second-cousin-thrice-removed

1- Great-grandparent's second-cousin.
2- Second-cousin's great-grandchild.
My second-cousin-thrice-removed is a good person.
by JAMP12 September 21, 2021
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Second Course Addict

A guy who always goes after his best buddies exes.
Guy: Kelly just broke up with me.
Guy2: Aww dude, im sorry. Watch out for Chris, he's a total Second Course Addict.
Guy: He wouldn't do that to me, Im his best bud.
Guy2: I used to be his best bud too, til he did it to me and my entire group of friends.
by concierned citizen October 11, 2009
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