The act of patrons staking out and claiming a table in a "seat yourself" lounge/restaurant before staff is given a fair chance to buss it off or previous customers leave. This usually happens during a dinner-rush.
This results in the server becoming annoyed and having to awkwardly reach over and make "small talk" with customers as they wipe off the previous mess.
This results in the server becoming annoyed and having to awkwardly reach over and make "small talk" with customers as they wipe off the previous mess.
Server 1: " My table is just about to leave, they're getting their coats on. I just have to ring-up a Mastercard, and I can clear it off..."
Server 2: "Too late. Check out the dude at the entrance. Definitely table poaching. He's making a bee-line to 106. Aaaaand, yup, he just asked your table if he could sit there."
Server 2: "Too late. Check out the dude at the entrance. Definitely table poaching. He's making a bee-line to 106. Aaaaand, yup, he just asked your table if he could sit there."
by disgruntledserver December 4, 2010
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by harlan50 March 20, 2009
Get the beaver poaching mug.The act, usually committed on facebook, of adding a friend of your friend, whom you have never previously met or come into contact with. Upon acceptance, the friend poacher usually makes over exuberantly friendly and all too awkward comments on his new "friend's" statuses.
dude 1: Hey, it says that we have (insert name) as a mutual friend, how do you know him????
dude 2: ... uhh...
dude 1: dude have you been friend poaching???? Stop poaching my friends bro.
dude 2: ... uhh...
dude 1: dude have you been friend poaching???? Stop poaching my friends bro.
by TRL0 November 9, 2009
Get the Friend Poaching mug.In the swinging community, when a couple attempts to coax the female portion of another couple into sexual relations without the consent or knowledge of the male portion of the other couple. This is sometimes refered to as back door unicorn hunting.
Note that this is different from testing the waters, as in the swinging community the female portion is often approached first to see if the couple as a whole is interested in play. In wife poaching there is often a shady element involved where the husband is intentionally excluded by the initiating couple.
Note that this is different from testing the waters, as in the swinging community the female portion is often approached first to see if the couple as a whole is interested in play. In wife poaching there is often a shady element involved where the husband is intentionally excluded by the initiating couple.
John when to the bathroom at the swingers club only to find out that when he returned, a wife poaching couple swooped in and tried to make his wife a cuckcake.
by Axalotal acid July 3, 2023
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by Rickard Nilsson June 27, 2008
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Dude, I just saw that Bob just joined the "not being stabbed in the face" group on facebook. That's funny, I am so facebook poaching that!
by the Catalina wine mixer June 16, 2009
Get the Facebook Poaching mug.Pursuing a person below you, used mostly in the context of debate teams, where varsity members try to hook up with novices.
by brunoyouknow May 4, 2010
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