Taken directly from the name of the main character of Diagnosis Murder, the act of doing a 'Doctor Sloan' involves solving, or helping to solve, a problem using information that by all accounts SHOULDN'T be useful at that point. Could also be described as a fluke of genius in unlikely circumstances.
Person A: "Fat Fuck Freddy has gone to the chinese takeaway without me and left 10 minutes ago. We'll never catch him now."
Person B: "Doesn't he usually order a number 116 without prawns?"
Person A: "Maybe. What's your point?"
Person B: "He never has more than a fiver on him, so he'll have waddled to the cashpoint first. We'll catch him there!"
Person A: "You sir, just pulled a Doctor Sloan"
Person B: "Doesn't he usually order a number 116 without prawns?"
Person A: "Maybe. What's your point?"
Person B: "He never has more than a fiver on him, so he'll have waddled to the cashpoint first. We'll catch him there!"
Person A: "You sir, just pulled a Doctor Sloan"
by Ivor Alias May 11, 2009
Mark Sloan is a guy who builds Lego with his son, they both struggle while doing so. Mark Sloan is cool.
by PunkzXD April 18, 2022
A crusty looking mammal who has hair like a grown mans pubes and is going to live a live in Kildare according to the Rhonda herself
by King Jamal is here September 26, 2017
by King Kerrod November 25, 2019
by ghettodick69 October 11, 2022
the act of thinking you are "too cool" for the rest of the people at a party and sitting alone in the corner on your phone talking to your "cool" friends.
We invited Jessica to the party but she didn't care to talk to anyone the entire time. Jessica was Sloaning.
by sloaning victim November 24, 2013
Sloaning: The man, the myth, the legend
by Reece puffs December 22, 2022