The Sponge Effect describes the situation where a person does an action, that they have done enough times to make it semi-automatic. Semi-automatic meaning that they do not remember the action in details subsequently.
Police officer: You just ran this red light. Do you acknowledge this?
Bicyclist: Sorry, I cannot do that, I don't remember the action. It might have been the sponge effect.
Bicyclist: Sorry, I cannot do that, I don't remember the action. It might have been the sponge effect.
by Tehor006 March 28, 2024
When someone hypes something up so much that when you actually experience it, it doesn’t meet up to your expectations.
Seylah was telling me that the movie she saw was the best movie she ever watched in her entire life but when I watched it I got the sushi effect.
by 5164! July 23, 2022
Noun/Verb/adjective: The state of disliking something that you once liked because you told your mom that you liked it, so she kept buying it for you until you got sick of it. Can be used as a noun, verb or adjective.
I made the mistake of telling my mom that I like yoo-hoo and she kept buying it for me until it got mom effected.
by Billy Goldtsein August 11, 2018
Having your NHL team sell all their assets to try to stack your AHL team + having a secondtag and missing the playoffs.
by So Free XD January 26, 2022
When you are looking up the weather is going to be like in the following days and the weather in 2 days surprises you.
Person a: 'Damn dude, it's going to be extremely cold in 2 days'
Person b: 'Sounds like the movie "the day after tomorrow"'
Person c: 'That's the "the day after tomorrow effect"'
Person b: 'Sounds like the movie "the day after tomorrow"'
Person c: 'That's the "the day after tomorrow effect"'
by getpo.st June 29, 2019
when the specimen goes to a foreign land, everyone from its native land experiences a PAX ROMANA in gaming for the duration of the specimens absence.
the natives of the mother land all went to be placed Gold after this moment, and the Oxford Effect was established"
by DeportedAyyadveli March 10, 2019
When an organization and its material is built up over a period of 60 years, and the organization destroys all of that including itself in just 2 years.
by anti-putin February 21, 2024