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Second-hand listening

When you hear a piece of music not as a full-song but as a snippet being used in other mediums, such as for a meme, advertisement, movie scene, TikTok, etc.
"I just realized I know this song, even though I never directly listened to it or knew its name."

"Yes. That's called second-hand listening."
by Mayhem.Projector February 24, 2021
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Switch listener

A person gifted at switching from them listening to you to you listening to them.

Noun
1. “I tried 10 times to tell Karen about my new apartment and every time, before I even knew what had happened, we were talking about her problems with her boyfriend. I felt like I was on a bad drug or something.”

2. I know, the girl’s a natural born switch listener
by Bigfreedog July 21, 2011
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Listening to Korn

by anonymous August 31, 2025
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Bed-listener

A person who is skilled in bed-listening rumours the negative information or sickness of any well-known celebrity or politician, only based on several figures from unknown resources. Bed-listeners often claim a celebrity to be badly ill (suffering from cancer or other severe diseases), because it seems that they comprehends the proficient skills of listening to what the target men said on their bed or even during their dreams.
In ancient China, palace maids and eunuchs are experts in bed-listening to the healthy conditions and bed stories of their monarchs.
A bed-listener says that Putin was badly sick, gripping the table to stop himself shaking so much, because he bed-listened Putin for months.
by iamshuo90 June 16, 2022
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Passive Listener

When someone should be listening to what you are saying but they are mentally too busy thinking of what they want to say or are interrupting you to get their point across or jump ahead of you telling the story because they can't wait for you to finish. This causes them to ask a question about the thing you are talking about before you are able to get it out or ask about something you said but they missed because they aren't really listening. As opposed to an active listener who is genuinely interested in hearing what you are trying to tell them regarding an incident or a story or information.
You: So I told her don't be all up in my business because. ..
Them: So she left or stayed or what?

You: I'm trying to tell you what happened. Don't be such a passive listener.
by Wordy Smith March 22, 2015
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Listen to Hym

Yeah, but I do know who she WILL listen to...
Hym "Eventually you guys will learn to listen to Hym. I am so very brilliant and my accomplishments are literally unparalleled."
by Hym Iam July 25, 2024
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Listen

A thing people won't do when you have glasses
Guy with glasses: STOP!!! I'M NOT BLIND!!! PLEASE LISTEN!!!
Guy without glasses: How do you see?
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