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Drifting

The thing everyone's joycon likes to do. It could happen for a multitude of reasons.
Billy: Hey Jim, what's wrong with your joycon?
Jim: Damn it it must be drifting.
Billy: Just blow into it maybe it will tone it down a bit.
by LegalMeme September 10, 2019
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Maternal Drift

The gradual or ongoing detachment from the emotional or behavioral responsibilities of motherhood, often seen in young mothers who had children during their teenage years and never fully transitioned into a maternal role.
Can involve a lifestyle that mirrors someone in their twenties, with parenting taking a backseat.
“She had her son at 16, but it’s like she never grew into being a mom—still out every weekend. Classic case of maternal drift.”
“Maternal drift hit hard after she realized she missed out on her youth and tried to reclaim it.”
“Don’t confuse maternal drift with bad parenting—it’s deeper, like being emotionally stuck between two lives.”

Maternal Drift
by PosthumouslyObscure June 2, 2025
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Drifting

Drifting is a way to make your car slide on the highway or road or freeway and hit corners and turns without having to slow down especially famous for using when advance street racing difficulty.
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Stick Drift

Describes an affliction impacting joysticks on gaming controllers.

Stick drift is when a controller’s joysticks act as if they’re being moved, despite being still. This typically occurs when dust and debris get under the joystick and interfere with its sensors.

This occurs with most major console controllers, though the Nintendo Switch joycons have earned the most notoriety for stick drift problems.
Alex: “I’m getting the worst stick drift, don’t you have another controller?”
Trent: “Sounds like a skill issue to me!”
by WomenSlayerrrrrrrrrr December 21, 2024
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Multitrack Drifting

When choosing between 2 bad things, electing to do both of them at once; a subversion of the Morton's Fork.

The name is a reference to the Trolley Problem, where you are supposed to choose between letting 4 people tied to the track die and pulling the lever, running over 1 person with the trolley and being directly responsible for their death.
Person 1: "If you had to chose, would you rather kill 2 piglets or 1 puppy?"
Person 2: "Multitrack Drifting."
Person 1: "What the fuck."
by Nebulaud March 2, 2025
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nut drift

When a testicle falls out of your tighty whiteys.
I've got nut drift on my right side.
by Shitstick1969 October 2, 2018
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drifting

Noun

While in the process of giving fellatio, the penis misses the giver's mouth and starts streaking away on the face, sometimes piercing the cheekbone.

Typically occurs when the person giving fellatio is inebriated, exhausted, barely awoken from sleep to perform the act, or otherwise mind-altered by drugs or medication.
"Hey Greg. Wake up, man! You're drifting, and now my dick is stabbing your cheek. Get it together, and THEN you can go back to sleep!"
by Japanese Doll Peddler June 4, 2021
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