preppy pause

A phenomenon of early '80s New Wave dance music (supposedly attractive to preppies of the era), where the song is interrupted by a moment or two of silence.

The Howard Jones song "Welcome to Conditioning" has a preppy pause.

by Tomte November 16, 2005

Pause

The word pause is normally used when someone says some stupid or gay shit.

Guy1:bro, have you ever stuck a dildo up your ass?

Guy2:pause........ANYONE ELSE JUST FUCKING HERE THIS NIGGA

by ThatOneNigga.Aye March 6, 2019

Phaseology

The portion of science that deals with the study of phase-out.

A lot of the people I knew constantly phase-out so I decided to take a course in phaseology to determine the cause of their peculiar phase-outs

by Phased-out October 21, 2010

phased

something being done bit by bit - in phases

The build up of his YouTube portfolio of scooter tricks was phased as he added new edits each weekend.

by geofarce February 12, 2017

pause the game

pause the game is when a parent that has no clue what the internet is and also could be apart of 9/11

"Mom: pause the game" "my mind: You are the reason why toothpaste has instruction's on what to do after you eat it" "Me: you can't pause an online game"

by jksyu November 13, 2022

Pod Pause

The period of time that elapses while an ipod owner looks for his/her ipod, hooks it into the car, plays a song, and then finally moves their car.

Driver 1: Dude, where's Kate? I thought she was right behind us.

Passenger 1: She probably is in the middle of her Pod Pause.

by the dude lebowski September 3, 2005

Come Pause Act

The act that demands all people pause in their speech for a significant period of time after use of the words "come", "coming" and "came".

"how will you come...over to them"
"he came...over to us"
"were you coming...when this happened?"
"have you heard of the crazy Come Pause Act ; it's all the rage in Wiltshire"

by The L Team April 1, 2008