The Shatner Effect

A cinematic term when in a movie or television program, an actor or actress removes their top, or appears without it for no apparent reason.

The scene from "Swordfish", where Halle Berry moves her book to show her boobs for no reason is a classic case of The Shatner Effect.

by Russell The Love Muscle January 13, 2015

William Shatner'd

To defecate, poop, dump, crap, shit, or shat your pants.

Aw, man. I just William Shatner'd myself.

by Lily_of_Geeks August 8, 2009

To Shatner

Verb used when a vocalist for a band speaks his lyrics instead of singing them.

Halfway through Crazy my voice started cracking, so I just Shatnered my way to the end.

by Oedipus May 30, 2005

Shatner

Shatner (n.) 1) Star of the 1960's TV cult classic 'Star Trek.' (v.) 1) Of or having Shatner-like qualities, as a) Overly dramatic acting style filled with pauses, b) Musical stylings that resemble their own branch of performance art, a song performed in limited vocal range with many pauses, while reciting the lyrics as beat poetry, c) "Khaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaan!!"

1) (n). William Shatner, (1931- )

1a) (v). "To be or............... not to be, that is............. the question."

1b) "Welcome............. to the jungle. It gets worse here.......... every day."

1c) "Khaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaan!"

by Quicksand August 31, 2005

Shatnerspension

To build suspension by inserting overdramatic pauses like William Shatner, with or without facial expressions. The suspension created by Shatner pause, Shatner comma, or shatnering.

"Did you see how Matt read that last line? He used Shatner Pause so well that he created Shatnerspension for the group listening."

by JustJayPHX May 19, 2013

Shatnering

The complete, and, utter over, use of, commas in sentence structure.

Bobby failed his English essay for shatnering the whole first paragraph.

by Flatoutrude July 7, 2016

Mirror Universe Female Shatner

A weak minded social justice warrior who still lives in a low-rent apartment, had their mommy and daddy pay for their college tuition, and has never worked for anything in their life.

Synonym(s): Anti-American, Socialist, Moron, Speedbag, Retard, Lefttard, Libtard, and Liberal Retard.

Mirror Universe Female Shatner isn't a human being. She needs to be exterminated.

by WeeW MooM March 16, 2020