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Doormat Syndrome

The act of trying to please anyone, or everyone you can.
Sometimes relating only to one person, or multiple people.
"Hey man, Jake has doormat syndrome so bad, he's always trying to please someone."

"Ya I know, its sad sometimes, I wonder what he'd do for me?"
by Narofsky October 1, 2008
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Doormat

Someone who's really nice, kind, generous and sweet; often also smart and funny. They can be outgoing and extroverted, but still allow certain/most people to walk all over them.
They are dedicated friends and partners, and infallibly there for anyone who needs them with advice, support, money, homework to be copied, and expect nothing in return.
They desperately wish one day that someone will call them a friend and mean it, but for now they are happy to be a friend to everyone else no matter what the personal cost.

They actually LIKE to be used, because at least it means they are needed in some small way.
People might see being a doormat as a sad and pathetic existence, but doormats are generally content with their standing.
"Alice, you're such a doormat- you let us walk all over you!"
"I don't mind, really. I'm your friend and I just want to be here for you"
by doormat-and-content September 20, 2012
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doormat cult

a cult about doormats made by streamer "isabelmary" and there will be soon merch. (this is confirmed by "poll")
by the ice king_ March 7, 2021
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doormatt

basically bri’ish, says fuck you pretty often and he also is bri’ish
(likes bieber memes)
fuck you” - doormatt, every single day
by julielgrt July 4, 2023
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Dance Dance Doormat

When they answer the door you start dancing until they get mad at you
We played dance dance doormat for a whole hour which was fun untill this drunk guy punched Steve in the face
by MowMows April 6, 2009
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Dignified Doormat

A soft-spoken woman who sits with her hands folded neatly in her lap and smiles graciously as her husband runs America into the ground.
by wakeupcall April 27, 2005
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Abrasive Doormat

An Abrasive Doormat is a type of person which has learned to play the boss-worker system to their advantage. In front of their superiors, they will act humble and diligent. They will even take abuse, letting themselves be treated like a doormat by those who are able to hurt them. In this, they are wise. They retain their employment by taking abuse from those above them.

However, when it comes to those who cannot harm them, this type of person is abusive. These people who act like doormats to the faces of their employers will treat those equal to or below them as if they were doormats.

They respect their own kind, namely those who have learned this form of hypocrisy. But anyone who doesn't know how to play their little game they insult. And anyone who is brave enough to speak out against mistreatment they ridicule with all their might and seek to sabotage them for the sake of their own game.

They throw epithets and megatons of stinging words at any who would speak out against the system that they have learned to play. And that is exactly it, these nasty hypocritical manipulators have taken so long to learn to play this system that they don't wish for this horrid system to be challenged, much less altered.
Underling: "How can anyone put up with this kind of boss?... it is just impossible."

Abrasive Doormat: "Heard you got coached, what did you do?"

Underling: "I didn't really do anything, I just tried to explain to the boss that..."

Abrasive Doormat: "What!!! You spoke to the boss trying to explain something to him? How naive of you, you impertinent, immature, foolish, knave of a n00b! Ha ha ha ha haw!!! You deserve what you get!"

Underling: "WTF?! How is it even possible for you to say such things if you have a brain in your skull?!"

Abrasive Doormat: "Oh and now you dare to insult me! I'll see about that!"

*Abrasive Doormat goes tattling and reports as many reprehensible things about Underling as is possible to invent.*
by arbitraryusername January 21, 2010
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