when someone decides to ban or censor something, and that attempt to make something go away, makes it even bigger than ever before, or ever planned.
dj danger mouse's gray album in which he remixed the vocals from jay-z's the black album and the beatles white album. when emi sent a cease and desist letter to danger mouse the internet community created an intense distribution campaign
by bigposerhead February 8, 2005
The Streisand effect is a primarily online phenomenon in which an attempt to censor or remove a piece of information has the opposite effect and instead drags attention
Urban Dictionary sucks - said on named site creates The Streisand Effect with lots of thumbs down dragging up the result
by barrust March 27, 2010
Ex porn-star, turned singer, turned actress. Has a huge nose whose nostrils are big enough to qualify as two extra sexual orafices in China.
Gives great head. I think she's married to that one guy from the original haunted house thingy who now portrays high ranking naval officers... something like Brodin or Grodin.
Gives great head. I think she's married to that one guy from the original haunted house thingy who now portrays high ranking naval officers... something like Brodin or Grodin.
by Ivanna Blowjob Fromstreisandtoo March 25, 2006
A celebrity with an excessively large nose, made fun of on south park in the episode Mecha Streisand with lines like "Woah dude, you could land stealth bombers on that thing!"
by Kenny McCormic May 11, 2008
A Reverse Streisand is when you feign an attempt to block or ban something in order to hype it - as opposed to the straight Streisand, where you actually want to impose censorship according to your own (aesthetic) idiosyncrasies, but end up accidentally making everyone talk about what you wanted censored.
Studio: "OMG! Someone leaked our great new title 'X-Men Origins: Wolverine'! FBI is totally investigating and we are enraged!"
Interwebs: "LoL - they leaked it themselves! A classic Reverse Streisand move."
Interwebs: "LoL - they leaked it themselves! A classic Reverse Streisand move."
by -lv April 3, 2009
Origin of all that is evil in the world. As old as the universe itself.
People who listen to her music obviously need a good shooting.
People who listen to her music obviously need a good shooting.
by Felix July 11, 2005
I went to hell, Barbara Streisand rules there.
by Miguel The Almighty November 3, 2003