A deadline is approaching, there is 20 person-days of work to-be-done, and 5 workdays in front of you. While you wade through the doable tasks, more work piles up behind you faster and faster, pushing you towards the deadline. Then, the wave breaks, either you surf straight out of it with confidence and speed (you successfully finish work) or you crash and fall into the whitewater (which experienced deadline surfers call the "stuck inside a washing machine mayhem").
The deadline arrives, washes every crashed surfer on shore, while the experienced riders swim out to catch the next one.
"I love deadlines, I love the sound they make when they swoosh by".
Douglas Adams
The deadline arrives, washes every crashed surfer on shore, while the experienced riders swim out to catch the next one.
"I love deadlines, I love the sound they make when they swoosh by".
Douglas Adams
by leobard April 1, 2009
Get the deadline surfing mug.1.A military term used to describe the operational condition of a piece of equipment. It means the equipment in question is NMC or is broken down. Equipment can be deadlined for safety reasons such as fuel leaks, inop headlights, Missing seatbelts, etc.
2.To have an injured body part limiting your ability to perform certain actions.
2.To have an injured body part limiting your ability to perform certain actions.
1.I can't get a dispatch for my truck, the fucking headlights are inop.
Looks like we're not going anywhere today, my panzer is throwing fuel everywhere, run over to the CPand tell the XO we're saftey deadlined.
2. No freq hopping for me this weekend, My main gun is deadlined from that girl last week.
Looks like we're not going anywhere today, my panzer is throwing fuel everywhere, run over to the CPand tell the XO we're saftey deadlined.
2. No freq hopping for me this weekend, My main gun is deadlined from that girl last week.
by tankboy2k January 20, 2006
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A deadline refers to a practice in earlier prison camps which were usually farms and therefore had no real fences and so the deadline was literally a perimeter line that if you crossed you would be shot and most likely killed.
Can you imagine if they were to enact old school deadlines in place of the modern equivalent? I bet everyone would turn their work in on time with that kind of pressure. Unless of course they were suicidal and too lazy to do it themselves.
by saharadryhumor January 8, 2015
Get the deadline mug.The act of doing the least amount of work possible such that you could still conceivably get your essay in on time.
"Hey man do you wanna cheeky game of Boxhead?"
"Nah bro, gotta do some work now cause I spent all last night deadline surfing"
"Nah bro, gotta do some work now cause I spent all last night deadline surfing"
by toorightbro333 November 7, 2015
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by heartaachu August 28, 2021
Get the deadlinedorks mug.A: "What the hell is all that trash doing on the roads of Ukraine's Chornobaivka?"
B: "That's a deadline. Russians did it again..."
B: "That's a deadline. Russians did it again..."
by Mr.Tro April 14, 2022
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