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It's like someone is in a time-dilation bubble and they're multitasking for 30 years while your parents watched you for an hour
"Well he stopped hearing voices for a while, but he gets the zoomies every day."

"Bobby had the zoomies all week and so he won't be awake for soccer or church this weekend."
Zoomies by Don Palabros February 4, 2025
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The very sudden, urgent need to poop that happens mere moments before a Zoom meeting.
I got hit with the zoomies before the meeting so I had to sit on a bucket the entire time just in case.
Zoomies by slyigs August 27, 2025

The zoomies 

A common phenomenon where your cat has heightened energy and they have no choice but run around the house to burn off the excitement. Causes for the zoomies include but are not limited to prey, and changes in the environment. It can also start spontaneously for no known reason. In the wild, the cat’s body builds up enormous amounts of adrenaline, so that when they pounce, they can effectively catch their prey, but because most cats are enclosed in a house, they cannot reach the desired destination. So the adrenaline (which is now useless) forces them to run around like a spooked chicken until the energy is spent. This quirk happens in the early stages of a cat’s life, and as they grow older and more mature, the zoomies get rarer and are eventually substituted for more sensible ways of burning off useless energy.
Zani got the zoomies randomly today. I don’t know why, but I assume it’s because she saw a fly.
The zoomies by Bib the boulder December 23, 2021

Online Zoomies 

People who gather in small groups online, in Zoom calls, to get support and friendship. There is supervisor who helps them learn how to do the Zoom calls and is also there for each gathering. There is a commonality to the groups; in some cases everyone is a senior citizen. or maybe all female.
She wasn't sure how she'd like being on online meetings with people she had never met; but she kept working with the supervisor to learn how to do it. Would they like each other? After several meetings, she looked forward to her weekly meetings with them. They had bonded, and Online Zoomies seemed a fun & pleasant name for them.
Online Zoomies by Poppy Doodle September 24, 2021

Wearing The Zoomies 

When someone is going fast/speeding.
Man you wearing the zoomies you going so fast!
Wearing The Zoomies by Peytonns August 26, 2022

The Zoomies 

Random spasms of energy that makes your pe(t) go top speed to, around, and through whatever they can.
My dog had The Zoomies while I was running this morning and sideswiped me to the ground.

Imagination Zoomies

(Adjective) (Adverb) It’s basically when, you’ve memorized the traces of humor, and remember what was originally funny and can build more jokes making one endless inside joke to yourself or others about the original joke to the point you have the Zoomies
That person was laughing so hard it was as if it was by imagination Zoomies