Rube Goldberg Syndrome

n. The situation whereby a medical or medical/psychiatric condition causes a "domino effect" of other dangerous symptoms and conditions ensuing.

Named after the Rube Goldberg "contraption" machine, any machine that uses a chain reaction of events to achieve a final, trivial goal (in this particular case, possibly death).

After my brother had that bout with strep, it apparently got to his stomach and paralyzed it, giving him a nasty case of acid reflux, which in turn began to launch acid clear up into his throat and mouth, not only severely damaging his teeth... he's also he's worried he's going to get cancer one day from all that acid where it's not supposed to be. And to say nothing about all the dental surgeries he's gonna need... talk about a case of Rube Goldberg Syndrome!

(No really, it has happened.)

by Andy Khay January 23, 2009

goldbrick

1. to avoid doing what you are supposed to be doing

2. a person who avoids doing what they are supposed to be doing

Why are you always goldbricking? Why can't you be more like your brother?

by Light Joker May 15, 2006

Goldberg Effect

When a company intentionally invents new "schools of thought" with profit as the major incentive.

"Oh damn, those narcotics companies totally invented grammar to force more people into abuse! That's a classic Goldberg Effect!"

by Lil Giffel January 10, 2022

goluboi

Goluboi is the Russian word for light blue (such as a daylight sky blue) as opposed to "sinii" which is the Russian word for dark blue (like the blue of the American flag). This is similar to how English differentiates pink and red and does not say red and light red. They are considered two completely different colors in Russian.

Goluboi. also seen spelt goluboy, is Russian slang for gay or homosexual.

One theory of the origin of this slang is that boys in Russia wear blue and girls wear pink. Homosexuals are thus referred to as "blue" since they like those of the same color.
Lesbians are reffered to as rozovyi, which is the Russian word for pink.

Another suggests that it first was recorded in the 1950's but began being used in the 1940's in prison camps.
Designated homosexuals wore a blue ribbon - "golubaya lenta."
Another theory is that it referenced "blue blood" as the nobility saw homosexuals as odd.
Yet another is that it comes from homosexuals wearing blue underwear or a story of a girl named Mal'vina who had blue hair in Alexei Tolstoy's story "Zolotoi kliuchik."

The sky is goluboi. (The sky is light blue)

The boy in our class is goluboi. (The boy in our glass is gay).

by SkylaSilver March 4, 2015

Rube Goldberg

An unlikely and absurdly designed machine intended to perform a simple function in the most complicated and indirect way. Named in honor of Reuben Lucius Goldberg (1883-1970), an engineer with the City of San Francisco Water and Sewers Department who became a Pulitzer-Prize winning cartoonist, sculptor and author. His long-running comic strip, "Inventions", displayed many such devices of his own design.

My Grandfather built his own fuel injector with a Rube Goldberg set-up made of old plumbing parts.

by Unidyne December 29, 2003

glubby

A blobby and liquid-looking animal (usually a slug/snail) that you hold dear.

"Aw, look at how glubby that slug looks! I wanna hold him :)"

by The Frog Lord October 28, 2022

Sam Golbach’s Nipples

sam’s nipples are at least nob existing. with the size of at 1/2 a centimeter, i’ve had mosquito bites larger than them. we love you sam! and your tiny nips

sam golbach’s nipples are so tiny!

by sam’s nipples October 13, 2020