social distancing car

A humorous nickname for the Toyota Corona, referencing its name in light of the COVID-19 pandemic and the need for social distancing. The term plays on the idea of keeping a safe distance, much like the car's name suggests.

Ever since the pandemic started, my friends have been calling my old ride the 'social distancing car' because it's a Toyota Corona!

by Emotional Cruiser August 22, 2025

longing distance

The space, literal and emotional, between yourself and another person, hoping for their safety and well-being, wishing you could be together when you are inescapably separated during the pandemic.

Unable to help in any way, hoping each day that she would remain well, wishing he could simply be where she was, the longing distance was at times unbearable.

by Monkey's Dad April 4, 2020

social distancing

the distance required to render your other party's Second Life avatar inside your augmented reality glasses.

"Please excuse me. I didn't realise you were an eight foot tall fairy elf princess because I wasn't practicing the proper social distancing."

by pseudoraphael May 23, 2020

internipplary distance

The distance between a persons nipples

She had pretty wide set boobs, I bet her internipplary distance is bigger than average.

by T-rox June 20, 2023

within shoveling distance

Being in close enough proximity to a person, place or thing that one could reasonably assume you could bury a body and still get away without getting caught or found out.

“Hey, where's Tom these days?” “Oh. he's within shoveling distance.”

by Trixie Lynn Freebush January 20, 2021

distance screeching

A feeling when conditions from the past are haunting us and still make noises in our heads, although they seem to be distant. Can apply to historical conditions. Past events influence today’s minds and actions. E.g. our own past, as well as societal, institutional pasts inevitably shape theories and how we look at them. What we teach and learn today is intertwined with our past. Echoes reproduce power structures and reach into the present. The original sound can deform, how it is heard from a distance changes (e.g. become shriller). Although today many look on colonialism more critically, it still shapes institutions, worldviews, actions. It is visible in the books resting in our libraries, in the accessibility of institutions (Decolonising Knowledge: What Is Decolonisation? | Rolando Vázquez Melken 5:24), how history is told by western museums. We must recognize and draw attention to this screeching (e.g. as one can see in the actions Mwazulu Diyabanza does in Museums (Gimlet)). We need to question who owns, who tells stories, defines, has power, whose voices are being heard? To decolonize we must recognize that power structures are still active. We must question the sounds from the past without denying they exist, but by reshaping how we perceive them and making sure they are not repeated, by making sure they are not echoes.

Sources:
Decolonising Knowledge: What Is Decolonisation? Rolando Vázquez Melken. 2021.
Gimlet. I Want To Report A Theft.

“I still have a distance screeching.”

“I think you got distance screeching.”

“These theories are distance screeched. *”

*However, colonial power structures should be labeled as such as clear as possible. The proposed term should be seen more as an additional visualization.

by l;;;; December 10, 2023

long distance relationslump

The toll on a couple normally kept apart by distance, now further separated by travel restrictions.

Their New York-L.A. thing had felt dynamic, sharing best-of-both with alternating weeks. After months of facetime but no actual faces, and no actual bodies, they were in a long distance relationslump.

by Monkey's Dad April 17, 2020