Emotional Hedge

Placing a wager or betting currency against a sports team in which you root for. Placing an “emotional hedge” means that love and fandom for the particular team that you are betting against outweighs your value of and possession of money. If your bet wins, you are still unhappy due to your team losing, however can look on the bright side due to a slight or large gain of wealth. Placing this type of bet usually only associates with the most die hard fans of their team. Additionally, this bet is most prevalent when odds of your team winning are at their highest therefore you can profit the most in case (god forbid) utter heartbreak occurs, and they blow the game.

Boys, the Falcons are up big and it would really suck if they blew this Super Bowl. We better place an emotional hedge just in case the Patriots come back and break our hearts.

by The Doctor 69 December 30, 2022

emotional lapdance

Verb: The act of stimulating someone's emotional needs. When you feel like you have to exhaust yourself in a performative act to satify the emotional needs of another.

"I just can't be with him anymore! He's too dependant on me emotionally. I feel like I have to give him an emotional lapdance everyday. The constant reassurance, the unending questions. Why do I feel like he wants me to be like his mother and his therapist?"

by CharlesMonty January 22, 2021

Emotional Masturbation

Making negative comment about oneself expecting a positive and opposite rmark from another

Nicholas: I'm fat
Bob: Yes you are, I'm not falling for that Emotional Masturbation
Nicholas: *Cries olive oil tears*

by d_Firefox_b March 7, 2023

emotional tornado

A combination of anxiety and emotional distress and their spiral toward a child's inability to self-regulate, as witnessed in children, often during a regular school day. The emotional tornado spins from anxiety, emotional distress and poor self-regulation, followed by greater anxiety and further emotional turmoil. An emotional tornado can wreak havoc on a child's stress response system, impair maturing brain circuits and increase the probability for long-term learning, behavior and overall health.

Ashley's daily dose of bullying on the playground led to her heightened anxiety, emotional distress from the name calling and an inability to maintain her self-regulation in the recess line; she was experiencing an emotional tornado.

by docec May 11, 2016

emotional wedgie

Felling butt hurt and bent. Got kicked in the va-jay-jay. Panties in a wad. Depressed and sad. All delivered to you by your local bully and/or ass kicker.

Dude gave him an emotional wedgie, now he's acting like a little bitch about everything.

by Big shifter. May 18, 2014

emotional landmine

Seeing Facebook memories pop up in your newsfeed after a break up

I'm avoiding Facebook this week for all the emotional landmines that they want me to share!

by thegoodex August 7, 2017

Emotional asset

A person or object that bring positive emotional value to a relationship or environment.

Kaitlin is an emotional asset, I feel great whenever she is around me, she brings me pure joy and wide smiles.

by A-AronStyles April 25, 2023