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The friend zone

When you like someone but they only want to be friends
You se the space between boyfriend and boy friend that is what we call "the friend zone"
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The Friend Zone

There are degrees to the friend zone:

1 - You are in the friend zone but there is room to get out and get laid casually. She doesn't' talk about other guys in front of you and there is sexual tension at times. Its the only friend zone level to be at because it can actually flip into the awesome friends with benefits zone.

2. Further into the friend zone trap. You probably know a bit of personal information about her. She still doesn't talk about guys in front of you and she has probably thought about making you a long term thing. If she is thinking about you longer term you haven't had sex with her yet.

3. Now we are entering danger territory. There is still an outside chance for sex with the girl. But it is significantly diminished or you have to spend a substantial time apart and then end up together and realize that it needs to happen. You know plenty of information about her and you party together with other friends. She will mention other guys but not in the, oh I want to fuck him kind of way even though that is what she means.

4. 2% chance of sex and you need to both be absolutely hammered and there needs to some other type of tension besides sex. That's the only way its going to work. She thinks of you when there is a crisis and tells all her friends that you are the best but can't manage to help you get laid or into a real relationship. After all, being in the friend zone for the girl has perks, like having Mr. good guy at her beckon whim. You are a proven dependable and understanding person. She talks about guys in front of you and may have recently just ended a longer term relationship which is why she "isn't ready". You know way to much about her and her "isn't ready" really means never.

5. Its over. Pack up your bags and go home. You're never having sex with this girl. She talks about other guys and sex in front of you. You are mr. perfect just not for her and you have talked about this with her before. She explains that she is into dbags who treat her like shit and that's just not who you are. But, hey, you can be her best man.
If I meet one more of her relatives before even getting my wiener touched I'm writing her off as Level 5, The Friend Zone.
by Kesky, hey-o! July 29, 2009
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A growing epidemic that causes males to believe they have been "friend zoned" by girls they are acquainted with, yet they have never approached the girl in a manner of creating a sexual or emotional relationship. The disease stems from a lack of confidence in oneself, thus causing one to create the social construct of "friend zoning" to cope with their feeling of inferiority and lack of ability to ask a girl how she truly feels.
Infected: "Dude I totally got friend zoned the other day. It sucks so hard. Ughh forever alone."
Friend: "Sorry to hear she rejected you..."
Infected: "She didn't I just know she doesn't want me."
Friend: "Oh god...get away! What are you?!"
Epidemiologist: "Yes a perfect example of False Friend Zone Syndrome (FFZS)."
by Jimmithy Jimmers February 3, 2012
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The friend zone

When you get rejected and they only want to be friends. That's doesn't mean they think you are too nice :)
You: hey I like you. Wanna go on a date?
Her/him: no sorry. We can be friends tho
You have been put in the friend zone
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preemptive friend zone

the act of putting someone in the friend zone before they make any attempt to make moves on the other party. this allows for less confusion and emotional drama later on in the friendship.
Guy 1: Ashley has so many guy friends.
Guy 2: That's because she always make friends with them before they can ask her out.

Nice guys make up a disproportionate amount of preemptive friend zonees
by abominable snowmonster November 12, 2009
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The Friend Zone

The term men use to delude themselves into thinking that they are being "too nice," because the woman with whom they want to have sex doesn't want to have sex with them.

In actuality, when a woman says she "just wants to be friends," it means that *she's* being too nice. She doesn't feel comfortable telling a guy that she does not find him sexually attractive, and she NEVER will. There is nothing a man can do or say to change this, and it's just creepy when he tries. Men who think they are in the friend zone sometimes use this delusion to justify trying to force a woman to have sex with them. The term is a sad relic of rape culture.

Men who think they are in "the friend zone" need to realize that "She's Just Not That Into You." They need to put on their big boy pants and go find someone who doesn't find them physically repulsive.
"I'm in the friend zone with Ashley."
"There's no such thing as a friend zone. Ashley doesn't want to fuck you, and she never will."
by SmarterThanThou May 28, 2013
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Facebook friend zone

When you add/are added by a person of the opposite sex on Facebook, and it leads to you developing a platonic friendship instead of the originally-intended relationship
I added Kristie on Facebook to get to know her and ask her out, but it isn't working out. Now I'm in the Facebook friend zone.
by FBFriend13 September 24, 2011
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