When you acquire info that conflicts with your integrity, but don’t want to leave the cult, so you put it on your “shelf” to worry about later. As you start adding more shelf items until it ultimately collapses, then you decide to just “fuck it” and leave the cult.
How the Church treats women was a major shelf item for me. Their treatment of LGBT individuals caused my shelf to break.
by DickButtRiddick February 14, 2024
Get the shelf itemmug. An updated version of Rock, Paper, Scissors, where wall beats shelf, shelf beats door, and door beats wall.
"We both want the last cheese stick, let's settle it with an old fashioned game of wall, shelf, door."
"Oh, no!"
"Oh, no!"
by PocketFruit July 29, 2025
Get the Wall, Shelf, Doormug. When a person comes up behind a female and places their arms around them in a hug, the arms are placed under the bosom and are squeeze so the breasts bounce up a bit.
by H. D. Mort March 25, 2021
Get the Shelfingmug. 
The flat horizontal portion of an European, Eastern European and Middle Eastern style commode, which function is to provide a surface in which fecal matter has a place to rest. This is so the distributor of said feces can inspect the item to gain insight on the health of his, her, they, them or otherwise's internal organs and fecal matter produciton efficiency.
I sure am thankful that these restrooms have a sufficient 'inspection shelf' for me to lay my log upon. If they didn't, I wouldn't have been able to determine that I did eat that much corn last night. I surely don't recall consuming that much.
by Karl Hungus January 10, 2023
Get the Inspection Shelfmug. “Wow! What kind of bra does she have on?” “oh she just has shelf boobs. they’re just like that they don’t hang. they’re perky.”
by jana73848262673&4 January 30, 2018
Get the shelf boobsmug. A term that refers either to the chest area (“top shelf”) or the lower back area (“bottom shelf”) upon which a man ejaculates after sex
by jlsoleil October 16, 2020
Get the Splooge shelfmug.