If you are going to go to a DOMINANT DEFINITION LADDER you may want to SAVE THE BEST FOR LAST as the BOTTOM ONE is the TOP ONE to really FUCK WITH so to speak.
by INSERT CAREFULLY September 2, 2021
Get the DOMINANT DEFINITION LADDERmug. A social phenomenon in which individuals or groups who have successfully advanced in status, wealth, or opportunity then act to block others from accessing the same path upward.
Key Features:
Motivated by fear of competition, scarcity mindset, or desire to protect hard-won status.
Can manifest in politics (e.g., immigrants opposing immigration), economics (e.g., professionals gatekeeping their fields), or class mobility (e.g., elites dismantling welfare or education programs they once benefited from).
Example (fictional): Raymond Leon in the movie "In Time" rises out of poverty to become a Timekeeper but enforces the very system that traps others where he once was.
Example (real): An immigrant who gained citizenship but campaigns to restrict immigration for others.
Key Features:
Motivated by fear of competition, scarcity mindset, or desire to protect hard-won status.
Can manifest in politics (e.g., immigrants opposing immigration), economics (e.g., professionals gatekeeping their fields), or class mobility (e.g., elites dismantling welfare or education programs they once benefited from).
Example (fictional): Raymond Leon in the movie "In Time" rises out of poverty to become a Timekeeper but enforces the very system that traps others where he once was.
Example (real): An immigrant who gained citizenship but campaigns to restrict immigration for others.
1. After becoming wealthy through public education, the politician now opposes funding for schools, effectively pulling up the ladder behind him.
2. Some immigrants, once they gain citizenship, support restrictive immigration policies — a classic case of pulling up the ladder.
2. Some immigrants, once they gain citizenship, support restrictive immigration policies — a classic case of pulling up the ladder.
by Social Climber September 16, 2025
Get the Pulling Up the Laddermug. It turned out others could see through the rungs in the bubbly girl' s ladder as well as she could see through the rungs in anyone else's.
by The Original Agahnim August 11, 2021
Get the Laddermug. by YeetyMcYeet May 3, 2018
Get the wrinkley laddermug. If playing an online game and wonder if you lag, you start climbing up a ladder in the game, to see if you make it to the top or if you just keep on jumping from on top to on bottom.
Gamer#1: "Dude! I so shot that guy in the face, and it took him freakin' three second to die! Bajingless!"
Gamer#1's Online Buddy:"Do The Ladder Test. I see one right over there."
Gamer#1's Online Buddy:"Do The Ladder Test. I see one right over there."
by TurnOnLamp September 25, 2010
Get the The Ladder Testmug. When one partner is much taller than the other. The shorter uses an actual ladder to perform perfect cunnilingus or fellatio.
by 420CakeDay July 29, 2018
Get the ladder sexmug. A fivesome comprised of hot males that dominate a man named (Ethan) till he can’t take it while 2 men named ( bradley, and Brendan) the guys fucking (Ethan) get dominated by a mostly black and Mexican man and black and Puerto Rican man
by No socks jerry November 27, 2021
Get the dominance laddermug.