vicarious tailgating

When there is a line of cars behind one person driving slow, and you're somewhere several cars back so you tailgate the person in front of you, who tailgates the person in front of them and so on and so forth until someone is tailgating the slow driver.

Joe: Man, I was five cars back from some old granny today and I couldn't pass... it sucked.

Pete: Dude, you totally should have tried vicarious tailgating.

by albert mcpassingpants June 21, 2010

Vicarious Pimp Agent

Someone who prostitutes friends and/or relatives in order to leach joy from their impending success in a given "field".

You need to go practice your throwing today Mr. All-Star quarterback. College offers don't come easy

Son: Dad, stop being a vicarious pimp agent. Let me do it on my own.

by Its Gotten Old October 6, 2012

Vicarious Racism

Vicarious racism is when Black, Indigenous, and people of color witness other people in our communities experiencing racism, and we get secondary trauma from it. Vicarious racism can be triggered by observing racist incidents, learning about them, and in some cases, having to recount them.

Source: Racial Wellness, a book by Jacquelyn Ogorchukwu Iyamah

The tactless posting of graphic videos and images of Black people being victims of racist attacks is a form of vicarious racism.

by Racial Wellness September 18, 2023

Vicarys

She is beautiful,nice,little shy ,very funny ,cute, and smart. She is also awesome person to be , she is always scared to bring love by someone , and she said that she didn’t like the romantic movies but she love it.

“Wow you see that girl over there”

“Yes I saw her she looks like a Vicarys”

by The one who love vicarys November 22, 2021

vicarious parasite

A person who feigns care for your situation only to use it to enrich their lifeless, mundane existence. Actions also typically include: (1) unsanctioned sharing of your personal information to others in the form of gossip, judgement, (2) continued prodding for more details to assist the recipient in seeming more interesting to others than their own life would allow, and (3) as a basis for engaging strangers in conversation that falsely makes them seem more interesting than they actually are. Also used in the form “pathetic vicarious parasite.”

I was temporarily comforted by my retired father’s interest in my back surgery until I remembered that he is a pathetic vicarious parasite with the primary objective of obtaining information to gossip and elevate himself in social circles.

by Observative December 19, 2020

vicariously traumatized

When you didn’t go through a trauma but someone close to you did, so you are traumatized because they trauma dumped on you.

This relates to trauma being a factor of shock or unexpected outcomes, when things are not seen coming, they take more tact to adapt to.

This may or may not relate to people being in narcissistic states after going through a traumatic event initially.

See example:

Prom is a trap! I heard about Cindy getting dumped after giving up her v-card so I’ll be waiting until marriage, I’m vicariously traumatized!

by anonymous December 6, 2025

vicariously traumatized

When you didn’t go through a traumatic event first hand, but someone close to you did and they trauma dumped on you, so now you’re in fear of the same thing happening to you.

This relates to how unexpected outcomes require more tact to recover from than outcomes we prepare for.

This may or may not be related to the narcissist nature the brain is left in from an initial traumatic event- sort of like a ripple impact of trauma until one transmutes the cycle

Prom is a trap! Ever since I heard Cindy got dumped after giving up her v-card I’ll be waiting until marriage, I'm vicariously traumatized!

by sound recollection December 6, 2025