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[Slow Burn]

When you don't have pressure to do something and it's okay in that way
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Slow burn

"slow burn" is an expression used by soyboys to refer to their favourite type of horror, one "without jumpscares" and "therefore friggin' superior". The most notable examples of this type of horror are A24 films.
It often is preceded by "(a) bone-chilling".
"Dark, eerie, atmospheric, character development, suspense build-up, a bone-chilling slow burn."

"Three tickets for me, my wife and my wife’s son for the newest A24-produced, genre-redefining, trope-subverting, atmospheric, dark and eerie, emotionally draining, gut wrenching, aesthetically heavy craft by post-horror auteur with an arthouse edge, dread-inducing, suspenseful build up with strong character development and gradual feeling of escalation, bone-chilling slow burn with “say more with less” approach and soul-shaking, blood-curdling, skin-crawling and nerve-wracking exercise in persistently looming dread where tension and anxiety permeates every frame as movie reaches its nail-biting, jaw-clenching and paranoia-inducing final climax, free of any cheap gore, cartoonish CGI or infantile jumpscares horror film, please. I'll have an extra large soy latte to go with that."
by Chad111 May 18, 2020
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Slow Hands

The best song ever, anyone who disgrees should be shot.
Rappo said Slow hands was shit, so i danza slapped him.
by Reptillia February 23, 2005
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slow burn

Gradual but inexorable increase in anger, eventually becoming outright rage or fury; what happens as a patient or slow-witted person figures out what has happened and why it is significant. NOT the insult, but the process that the insult (or other upsetting thing) starts in the victim.
"Beware the fury of a patient man" -- Seneca was talking about the consequences of a slow burn here.

At first Ned liked to think his new girlfriend was popular, but as that progressed to flirty, and then to "widely available even when Ned was right there", he began to do a slow burn about it; finding her topless in the kitchen at a party was the last straw.

She did a slow burn over the fact that her roommate borrowed things, didn't return them, gradually assumed she owned them, and finally began to lend them out and give them away herself.

He dented my car and at first it was no big deal; I left a note on his windshield saying we'd figure out what to do about it, but when I didn't hear from him for months, except promises that we'd get in touch real soon, I started to do a slow burn.
by old lang guy December 18, 2008
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slow death

Aids..... When you get it you will slowly die.....
Jimmy wrapped his shit up, he isn't trying to get the slow death
by pmack November 7, 2007
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slow nig

slow R&B songs that are often praised by the public but in actuality suck ass because they're whiney, annoying, and very black.
I was listening to some slow nig on the radio the other day, but I turned it off because I realized I was supporting the shit that was steaming out of my speakers.
by -CE- April 26, 2006
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Slow your roll

1)To settle down

2)to stop whatever is happening that is annoying you.
Geez...Slow your roll, I will fix the damn toilet when I get to it!
by Yoqif January 16, 2011
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