Designated distraction.

Term used by domestic builders describing a deliberate error left on a job to distract from a far worse yet less obvious mistakes.

Bob the builder: Sorry about that bit of paint I got on your kitchen counter, Mrs Smith. A bit of turps should get that off.

( Mrs Smith smiles and signs the cheque, failing to notice only three of the four light fittings she has paid for are in place. )

Bob has used the paint spill as a designated distraction.

by OldBuzzard March 4, 2010

weapon of mass distraction

Attractive woman who turns all heads and distract people by just being being there.

Priya is so pretty, she is a weapon of mass distraction.

by tangy-guy March 15, 2012

weapons of mass distraction

Something that distracts large numbers of people from thinking about important issues.

For a few hours at least today, the heat will be off George W Bush as America switches focus from Baghdad to the Super Bowl. Maybe the Super Bowl will be the weapon of mass distraction that Bush has been praying for.

by afroken January 15, 2004

Distraction Word

When you are looking up a word on UrbanDictionary.com and you see another word that interests you and you loose track of what you were looking at in the first place.

Example Distraction Words; Cullen Angry Dragon Alaskan Pipeline Tea Bag Bombing the titanic Tony Danza or any other words you come across on the UrbanDictionary website.

by dic fast December 6, 2009

Distraction

A self-created problem where another subject, object or person has brought your attention off of the activity, subject, object or person you were originally fixated on. This is usually caused by a lack of interest in the initial subject, or just plain weakness.

Guy 1 "You are a distraction."
Guy 2 " No, you just have a horrible attention span. Maybe you should work on ignoring your surroundings more."

by Glumpher October 20, 2011

distractional focus

This occurs when you need to be working with someone else, listening to music, watching television, or doing something else while doing academic work in order to help you focus better

I could not focus fully on my history work, so I asked my friend to be my distractional focus

by blitz425 November 13, 2009

Temporary Distraction Measure

A Temporary Distraction Measure or TDM for short is the basis of modern politics and business. Anytime a politician forms a committee to 'look into' something it is nothing but a ruse intended to temporarily distract the voting public long enough for them to forget all about it.
Anything (Committee, poll, vote, investigation, senate hearing, etc) that can be used to successfully distract people from issues that they were formally concerned about long enough for them to forget completely about it.

Anything that makes you (the voter) think we (politicians) are doing something about it when we're really not.

E.X. Senate Democrats hold hearings to investigate windfall profits generated by the obscene price of oil.

Two weeks later, the American public will have forgotten all about it and will rest content that the government is doing it's job. Hence, it was a successful Temporary Distraction Measure.

E.X. During the Senate hearing over whether to clarify net neutrality, the Senators rambled on for a few weeks until another celebrity got knocked up and everybody that was wanting it codified, forgot all about it.
Temporary Distraction Measure

by Crashingtests July 4, 2008