refers to the phenomenon where information spreads slowly, unevenly, or fails to reach certain individuals or groups in a timely manner. It highlights the delay or gap in the flow of information, often leading to situations where some people are "out of the loop."
"The news about the earthquake took days to reach us—classic news dilation."
"Don’t blame me for not knowing about the party; I got news dilated again."
"Don’t blame me for not knowing about the party; I got news dilated again."
by Someguyinthealleyway March 21, 2025

by JJR2012 May 12, 2022

A medicinal/mechanical item used to reduce/eliminate embarrassing noisy farts in public. Just like a bronchial dilator, it serves to further widen/open a bodily "pipe", but just at (ahem!) the "other end of the equation". Having this artificially-unrestricted "exit" permits any produced methane to be immediately vented in a continuous and "silent" outflow, rather than the gas's being internally bottled up in an increasingly-pressurized "pocket", eventually to come blasting out in a horrid raspy spluttering explosive expulsion that either greatly offends or uproariously amuses everyone within earshot, and causes acute humiliation to the unfortunate farter, especially if his whizzpoppers are especially odiferous and/or frequent.
Baked-beans-and-stewed-cabbage-loving dude: Wearing my specially-designed sphinctoral dilator (a three-inch-long thick-walled aluminum tube with smoothly-rounded screw-threads for easier insertion) isn't exactly the most comfy experience, but it sure beats the offended glares and/or derisive snickers from others that I used to get whenever I'd venture out in public after a big meal.
by QuacksO July 03, 2018

A medical practice used by transgender women following sexual reassignment surgery where they place a medical tube in their neovagina to keep the vaginal cavity from prolapsing. This is usually not required after 1 or 2 months following SRS once the cavity is fully healed. Often used by right-wing transphobes as an insult to mock people they disagree with by calling them gay and trans. Often paired with "cope and seethe".
Transphobe: "Cope, Seethe, and Dilate t-slur!!!"
Smart Person: I don't even have a vagina lmao
Transphobe: What? How could someone that disagrees with me not be an ugly f-slur t-slur!? Impossible! *dies of self inflicted cringe*
Smart Person: I don't even have a vagina lmao
Transphobe: What? How could someone that disagrees with me not be an ugly f-slur t-slur!? Impossible! *dies of self inflicted cringe*
by RealKrimsonKatt May 24, 2024

by Geekedmuskrat August 15, 2025

Dilating is taking someone’s words out of context and either exaggerating or completely fabricating a statement for comedic purposes
Mark- “ id be down to go out tonight if other ppl do”
Chad 2 hours later “Mark said all y’all are pussies if you don’t go out tn”
Mark “that’s crazy dilating right there”
Chad 2 hours later “Mark said all y’all are pussies if you don’t go out tn”
Mark “that’s crazy dilating right there”
by WillLeCompte December 04, 2023
