When someone is celebrating a birthday, there is always one person in the group who gets as drunk or drunker then the person celebrating the birthday. This is generally a result of hanging out with the birthday person the whole night and thus weaseling in on many free 'birthday drinks', while also buying their own drinks.
Bob: "Yo, did you see Steve last night .... guy was a mess"
Tom: "Yah man, he was drunker then me, and it was MY birthday"
Bob: "haha, yah man, definite case of birthday envy"
Tom: "definite!"
Tom: "Yah man, he was drunker then me, and it was MY birthday"
Bob: "haha, yah man, definite case of birthday envy"
Tom: "definite!"
by Adam SSS December 15, 2008
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by Adel7 December 28, 2007
Get the cellular envy mug.The phenomenon that outdoor runners may experience wherein one runner, while tackling a particularly daunting incline, crosses paths with a runner enjoying the downhill while traveling in the opposite direction. The uphill runner might inwardly direct strong feelings of jealousy toward the downhill runner's good fortune that can only come during the exhaustion and red-faced all-out effort of a literal uphill battle. This is downhill envy. In special circumstances, such as those in which the downhill runner offers audible or visual expressions of encouragement or solidarity, downhill envy may even manifest in the uphill runner's outward utterance of disdain at the downhill runner's perceived condescension.
See also: Uphill Empathy, the sister term of Downhill Envy
See also: Uphill Empathy, the sister term of Downhill Envy
Friend: Hey, how was your run?
Runner: I've had better. I was trying to haul ass up this one particularly vicious incline, but it was a serious struggle. What made it worse was this guy happily bounding down the hill in the opposite direction.
Friend: Damn. Downhill envy.
Runner: Mmm hmm.
Runner: I've had better. I was trying to haul ass up this one particularly vicious incline, but it was a serious struggle. What made it worse was this guy happily bounding down the hill in the opposite direction.
Friend: Damn. Downhill envy.
Runner: Mmm hmm.
by oversmashed July 22, 2014
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A sense of unease that arises when another person in your circle appears more progressive, inclusive and ostentatiously virtuous than you. The endgame of virtue signaling.
Sally: "Human Resources gave us rainbow stickers to put on our folders, but Bob put his on his office door to signal his total inclusiveness. I wish I'd thought of that first!"
Martin: "You've got a bad case of virtue envy."
Martin: "You've got a bad case of virtue envy."
by IncludingButNotLimitedTo November 22, 2018
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While watching the Trump rally today on FOX, Green Day came on during a Pepsi commercial, and Ben spent the rest of the day pining with "Lookout Envy.""
by BlagThePedo August 27, 2019
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I got major travel envy every time I see the Hawaiian Islands on that travel network. I must keep saving, so I can go before I die.
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