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college guilt

When overprotective parents guilt you into not going to the college you want to go. Oftentimes happens when the college is too far away. Used as a last ditch effort to get their kids to stay close to home.
You: I am dealing with such bad college guilt from my parents. They are really against me going to college in Florida but I want to go so bad!

Friend: You should do you what you want to do, it’s not their college experience.

You: You are 100% right, I should trust myself and not be guilt tripped into going where my parents want me to go,
by Png76 October 10, 2022
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Swing Guilt

a term used by former swing dancers to describe the lame guilt trip recieved from current swing dancers.
"awwww you should really come back dancing, its really gotten good!" which is a lie, its still lame.

"Oh where have you been?? you too good for us?"
Ask one more time and the answer is yes.

"Wow I ran into Jimmy today, what a dork... he kept slathering the Swing Guilt on"
by Hep Two Peeh February 10, 2010
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Pyramid guilting

Combines "pyramid" as in pyramid sales, and guilting, to provide a collective descriptor for all those items of social media content that seek to get themselves viral by exploiting human decency and empathy.

Individually they are generally good and moral, but as a collective phenomenon, they are experienced as moral blackmail and only cause empathy fatigue and insidious alienation from the causes they seek to promote.
That pyramid-guilt post was trying to suggest I wasn't loyal to my friends unless I liked, shared and copy-paste posted it to everyone.

Pyramid guilting is usually bad and wrong and 'poor me' attention-seeking but, just sometimes, it really is done for a sufficiently good cause.
by Osric_of_O October 2, 2017
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Retail Guilt

What you feel when you watch a documentary about climate change and remember all the crap you just ordered online.
"Wow, this episode of Patriot Act is really disturbing. I had no idea fast fashion was creating so much waste. Hey, are you okay? You look like you're going to throw up."

"Yeah... just thinking about the 10 shirts I don't need that'll be arriving on my doorstep tomorrow and having some serious retail guilt. I'm an asshole."
by Little Walnut December 3, 2019
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Guilt Wash

When you are in a public bathroom and you have no intention of washing your hands after using the bathroom, until a random stranger comes in, at which point you wash your hands out of fear that the person will think you are a dirtball.
Ty was finished peeing, and a man walked into the restroom. He wasn't going to wash his hands, but since the other man was there, he walked to the sink for a guilt wash.
by Archimedes13 September 10, 2011
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Guilt money

The money you get from your absent dad who can't be there for you everyday. The money he gives you for all the things you wanted that he couldn't buy those years ago before you had him in your life. Basically, it's daddy absent/issue money from biological dad's who can't always be there for their children.
Dad: Here's $20. Spend it on whatever you want.
Son: Wow! Thanks dad, I'll buy some bobux with this!
Mom to Dad: Stop giving him guilt money just because you're never around that much.
by Xx.Apple_Sauce.xX September 27, 2021
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tech guilt

Similar in concept to white guilt, tech guilt is a growing feeling among tech workers who are buying or renting homes and apartments made available by the eviction of socioeconomic minorities or the gentrification of "transitional neighborhoods" in major tech hubs like Silicon Valley.
Brad: Can you believe my studio apartment in the mission was Section 8 housing one year ago?! My rent is $4000/month! Oh well, I can afford it.

Jill: I hope you're feeling some tech guilt right now.
by Urbanartshare September 8, 2016
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