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Shame Delay

The extra time spent sitting on the toilet waiting for other patrons of the men's room to leave. Usually occurs in corporate settings after malodorous toilet episodes.
"I had like a 7 minute shame delay because my boss was in the crapper next to me."

"I knew the guy in the stall next to me began a shame delay, but there was no way I was coming out first. However, after 4 minutes of silence we both gave up and went to wash our hands. It was awkward."
by TPS Report March 30, 2008
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Query Shaming

The act of characterizing someone's SQL queries as inefficient.
Our database administrator (DBA) while reporting on why our server was slow proceeded to engage in some query shaming Ted's queries.
In today's staff meeting our DBA spoke directely to Ted in order to query shame him about some of the queries he had written.
by Mike Josephson November 1, 2018
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tube of shame

The London Underground conveniently closes at night from around 0030 to 0500 (because obviously everyone's asleep then).

Catching a 'tube of shame' is when one catches one of the early morning services home after a particularly massive night out, or worse one-night-stand.

The 'shame' is normally attributed to a combination of a comedown/hang-over you have and the reflection time you have on the train as you piece together what actually happened the previous night and how to explain it to friends.
Johnny answers phone
Ben: "... what were you doing last night with that girl/boy?"
Johnny: >>No comment<<
background noise of street/trains etc...
Ben: "Where are you?"
Johnny: >>no comment<< (too hung over, tired/mashed)
Ben (smirking): "Tube of shame :)"
Johnny: >>laughs in acknowledgement and hangs up<<
by cerberus82 February 28, 2011
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Donation Shaming

Donation shaming is the act of shaming a person's donation calling it "small" compared to their own net-worth in belief they should donate larger amounts.
Person 1: Wow billionaire (name here) only donated 999 million but they are worth a trillion!

Person 2: wow, that's donation shaming bro
by NUBBYNUB June 17, 2020
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White Shaming

When minorities rag on white people for being outside the loop or cringe because of their whiteness. This can be done to white homies to bust their balls, or to entitled white trash to show them their place. White shaming becomes less fun when white people fo it to themselves.
Minority homie “aye white homie, i bet your ancestors owned slaves didn’t they”
White homie “ahhh, i get it, your white shaming me”

White lady: *prounces literally any word in spanish and gets it wrong

White lady “oooh! I’m so white!”
by Mahalo7 January 7, 2021
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shame pound

When you drink the last drink you made right before bed but were too drunk to finish it (or even start it) and you don't want to waste good booze so you shame pound it. Prolonging the imminent shame spiral.

Imagine: A layer of mixer, a layer of liquor and a layer of melted ice.

Give it a stir, good as new.
She woke up to find the multi-layer concoction of a drink she made before she went to bed and instead of wasting it she shame pounded it and went on with her day.
by remwhite32 November 14, 2015
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cross of shame

Like the walk of shame but when you live in the border of 2 countries, and instead of just walking you need to cross over the bridge.
Dude I hooked up with this Tinder girl last night, got wasted and spent the night at her place, now I have to do the Cross of Shame back to Juárez, can you pick me up at the bridge?
by Urban656 September 3, 2016
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