The Belt On The Shelf

A Psychological Weapon Used By Parents To Persuade Their Children To Be On Their Best Behavior.

Used Primarily Around The Holidays To Encourage Kids To Mind Their Manners And Be Respectful.

A Cultural Technique Used By People From New Bedford Massachusetts Since 1973.

" New England Mother's Need Only One Babysitter, The Belt On The Shelf. "

by Four Horsemen Studio April 6, 2016

the bottom shelf

A low end illegal bar that is run in one of your friends basements that features cheap alcohol and (usually) cold beer where people pregame and postgame actual bars

The Bottom Shelf is the best bar in town

by BigPete623 August 5, 2019

shelf item

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

Shelf it!

Sticking drugs up your ass to smuggle them in prison

Oi mate, I need my shard next time you see Shazza ask her to shelf some shard so we can get high. So shelf it!

by smokeajoint 42069 May 1, 2020

shelf destruct

Verb: to decay to a slimy and/or mouldy mess while in storage (on the shelf)

"I don't know why I buy fresh vegetables, they always shelf destruct and then not only can't I eat them, I have to clean up the slimy mess"

The strange smell in the kitchen was traced to a bag of potatoes that had shelf destructed.

by tsamu July 31, 2010

Eggs on the high shelf

Used in the 1970’s to mean weed, marajuana.

Hey Susan, I’ve got so eggs on the high shelf I’ll bring over.

by Supercalifragilerealistic October 15, 2019

Top shelf wasted

When you go out drinking and get so wasted that you awake from your drinking coma days later.

Can also mean you are only drinking top shelf liquor to get wasted at a bar/club.

"Awwww man last week I got top shelf wasted in Tuesday.... Woke up Friday with no flow."

by Greatpickle December 4, 2014