To purposely mention and point out a distracting cliche in your
work, and then to move on like nothing happened. Used to have the audience of your
work be less likely to
murder you for using the cliche.
"Writer: 'The world was overrun by
vampire robot zombies, what else would it be? Anyways the
vampire robot zombies were defeated by a guy with a whole bunch of guns, silver bullets too. And a garlic flavored wooden stake Electromagnetic Pulse antivirus firing machine. Seriously that made it so
easy. Anyways yeah there were a bunch of explosions. Fuck yeah!'
Reader: What a Lampshade Hanging sunufabitch. It's funny because he pointed it out."