When someone is intending to leave a room/building and is standing in the doorway but stops to have a long conversation with someone else.
"I'm gonna go take a shower, alright?"
"okay, but before you go, have you heard of ___?"
"Oh, what's that?"
"blablablablabla"
"blablablablabla"
"oh, I was gonna take a shower. I guess it's the doorway curse"
"okay, but before you go, have you heard of ___?"
"Oh, what's that?"
"blablablablabla"
"blablablablabla"
"oh, I was gonna take a shower. I guess it's the doorway curse"
by eggplantparmeZHAN July 10, 2024
Get the Doorway Curse mug.Doorway effect is a common psychological phenomenon where people forget what they intended to do after walking through a doorway into a new room. It is also known as the "location updating effect," and it is not a sign of memory loss or dementia. The brain creates mental "event boundaries" when crossing a threshold, which helps organize memories but can cause you to forget your original goal in the new environment.
Man, I'm tired of constantly putting the salad inside the fridge due to experiencing doorway effect on my way to the fridge.
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1.) Is used to describe the action of a male friend or female friend that while under the influence of alcohol, or other substance that would be considered a "downer" will get inconveniently stuck under the archway or doorframe in the most usedand or populated threshold, hallway, building or establishment.
Although, it provides something to hold your door up, it will also hold up your best friend when he or she is about to nod off unconscious or just needed support the alcohol thats turning in thier stomachs.
Although, it provides something to hold your door up, it will also hold up your best friend when he or she is about to nod off unconscious or just needed support the alcohol thats turning in thier stomachs.
Nater: You'll never guess why the bathroom line is so long?
Jessica: Why is it?
Nater: Feaking whitney is stuck Doorway Mob'n at the front!
Jessica: Yep, happens every time..
Jessica: Why is it?
Nater: Feaking whitney is stuck Doorway Mob'n at the front!
Jessica: Yep, happens every time..
by TheoDonChalant January 6, 2026
Get the Doorway Mob'n mug.The male act of passing out during sex (whether due to alcohol or exhaustion) while in the act of penetration.
I was so wiped out last night after the bar that I ended up sleeping in the doorway. My wife was pissed.
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"So I gave Mark's girlfriend a golden doorway after she bitched him out. A lesson she'll never forget."
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