When you're about to go somewhere but then you stop to watch a movie on cable, even though you have that movie on DVD and can watch it anytime you want.
1st guy: Hey dude, let's go out to a club tonight
2nd guy: Ah, i wish i could but Spiderman 2 is on tonight and i want to watch it.
1st guy: Don't you have that movie on DVD though?
2nd guy: Yeah, but it's on tonight. I wanna watch it.
1st guy: Bro, You've got Shawshank Syndrome!!! oh and Spiderman Sucks
2nd guy: Ah, i wish i could but Spiderman 2 is on tonight and i want to watch it.
1st guy: Don't you have that movie on DVD though?
2nd guy: Yeah, but it's on tonight. I wanna watch it.
1st guy: Bro, You've got Shawshank Syndrome!!! oh and Spiderman Sucks
by Eddykid September 20, 2009
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"So I heard you're single now, man."
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by CrowNasty May 10, 2012
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The act of moving a huge amount of material by moving a very small amount in each of a huge number of deliveries.
Rod spilled his bongwater on the landlord's cat so he used his Yugo to shawshank all his shit over to Heather's crib.
by Empirical42 August 18, 2010
Get the shawshank mug.The act of enduring something which results in continuous consternation and/or pain of which you have no control over once into it. And, the event does not end until the act is completed or until you find a way to tunnel out and/or crawl through a proverbial 500 yard, shit-laden, drain pipe to free yourself of the event. Reference the movie "Shawshank Redemption".
Shit dude! I got busted for a DUI a week ago and had to shawshank it until I was bailed out by my ex-girlfriend.
by Roland819 November 23, 2006
Get the shawshank mug.To slowly chip away at getting to know someone in order to get into a relationship with them, in the way Tim Robbins' character slowly chips away at his prison cell to eventually brreak out of jail in the movie The Shawshank Redemption.
by H. E. Pennypacker August 4, 2007
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Originated with someone having not seen The Shawshank Redemption, but can be applied to any movie.
Originated with someone having not seen The Shawshank Redemption, but can be applied to any movie.
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by AK3 November 3, 2006
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