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Ladder

You mudt have balls of steel, X-ray vision, a cape, and the ability to fly if you can see through rungs in a ladder or walls in a building, most people find that stuff opague enough.
by The Original Agahnim September 27, 2021
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Pulling Up the Ladder

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.
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.
by Social Climber September 16, 2025
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can you stop shaking the ladder

I will never forget my grandfather's last words.
can you stop shaking the ladder?
by i4ba6g4rigt February 27, 2024
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flying ladder

When a man with a Jacob’s ladder piercing stands on a bed and another person assumes the position of face down ass up on the floor, the man jumps off the bed and flys into the other person.
Hey Jamie I tried the Flying Ladder last night, I almost broke my dick but it was totally worth it.
by Rumpleforeskim September 28, 2022
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ladder hoe

A chic that fucks or sucks or provides sexual favors for a higher position or status in the workplace.
She ain't nothin but a ladder hoe within her work community.
by rebelbug March 16, 2019
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Ladder

An object made of metal or sometimes wood or another material.
You must have X-ray vision, balls of steel, a cape, and the ability to fly if it's true that you can see through the rungs of that ladder or the walls of that building where others can't. Most people find that that stuff opague enough.
by The Original Agahnim September 27, 2021
mugGet the Laddermug.

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