Orphanated

Verb: To leave behind, dump, never return for; an unwanted person or thing, to be forgotten

Noun: Orphanation

Synonyms: orphan, orphaningly

Mikey the goat was orphanated by his mother.

by The Goat Herder December 29, 2020

Orphan Seat

A seat in a movie theater auditorium that is open but undesirable because person(s) in seat to the left or right are occupied.

The only seat available in auditorium 8 is an orphan seat in the middle of row H.

by iatebreakfast September 1, 2016

orphan source

The term given to any instrument, vessel or dial containing radioactive material that belongs to scientific, industrial, commercial, domestic or medical equipment.

An example of an orphan source would be the chamber containing the radioactive source inside a smoke detector that became separate from the rest of the detector. Loads of incidents where people discovering orphan sources have happened, such as 3 men in a snowy Georgian forest finding two large metal cylinders that were emitting heat and had melted the snow around them. The men decided to use them to stay warm not knowing what they were and suffered radiation poisoning.

by Apple=Airbus, Samsung = Boeing March 13, 2025

Alpha Orphan

The rarely disciplined child that a single mom brings into her marriage with a betabux provider.

Usually, the product of a one-night stand or short-term fling with an alpha male who isn't in the kid's life.

Alpha Orphans are frequently mentioned in their mother's online dating profile along with the statement "My kid(s) come first".

Example 1

Keith: Dude, I was interested until I saw "Proud mom" in her profile.

Wesley: Damn... Alpha Orphans.

Example 2

Husband: Honey, we've been married 4 years now. Can we have a kid now?

Wife: No! I already have two alpha orphans.

by GraveHeretic June 11, 2020

Orphan Tears

A term sometimes used humorously or creatively as a name for a fictional cocktail. In popular culture, "Orphan tears" may refer to a made-up drink with a whimsical or dark connotation.

Instead of drinking imported beers, somebody brought a bottle of Orphan Tears

by Spaziergang entlang der Donau June 21, 2023

Orphan Turntable

A vinyl record player originally sold with an integrated Hi-Fi system, that has since become separated from said system and is thus unusable due to proprietary connectors and the lack of an audio amplifier.

Person A: “I brought this record player from a thrift store, but when I tried to use it I noticed it only has weird connectors I’ve never seen before.”
Person B: “That’s an orphan turntable. Don’t waste any more time or money getting it to work.”

by MouthfulOfMortein February 26, 2024

mud orphan

A fecal mud child left abandoned without proper post natal care/burial.

Dude, I just left a steamy mud orphan on old lady Johnson's front porch.

During the adventure race I fathered a mud orphan in the woods.

by Jonas1 November 27, 2007