Shifting On

When you date some closely connected to your ex immediately after the break up.

When Tammy started dating her ex husband’s brother Dan, she was shifting on.

by Katrina Rowanda August 1, 2024

Shifting on

When you date someone closely connected to your ex immediately after the breakup.

When Tammy started dated her exes brother she wasn’t moving on, she was shifting on.

by Katrina Rowanda August 1, 2024

Shifting a civic

Shitting your pants

Jeremy was sitting in class. When all of a sudden he started shifting a civic.

by Whitewilt23 December 30, 2023

Shifting me off

Another word for getting wanked off. A cheeky wristy. A cheese and hand sandwich.

A ghost was shifting me off in the car park last night.

by Shiftingmeoff November 25, 2023

Shifting me off

Another phrase for being wanked off. A cheeky wristy. A hand shandy. A cheese and hand sandwich

A ghost was shifting me off in the car park last night

by Shiftingmeoff November 25, 2023

Shifting the Burden

The tactic of moving the burden of proof from the one making a claim to the one questioning it. Shifting the burden is what happens when someone says "prove me wrong" instead of supporting their own position. It's the logic of "you can't prove God doesn't exist, so he does," of "you can't prove vaccines are safe, so they're dangerous." Shifting the burden inverts the normal rules of argument, putting the challenger in the impossible position of proving a negative. The cure is recognizing that the burden of proof lies with the positive claim, not with its critics. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence, not extraordinary skepticism.

Shifting the Burden Example: "He claimed the election was stolen. When asked for evidence, he shifted the burden: 'Prove it wasn't.' She couldn't prove a negative; that's not how proof works. But shifting the burden had worked: now she was on the defensive, trying to disprove his unsupported claim. The argument was upside down, and he liked it that way."

by Abzugal Nammugal Enkigal February 17, 2026

Shreve Shifting

To manually shift the gears in an automobile with an automatic transmission.

Quit the Shreve Shifting, will you? Who do you think you are...Richard Petty?

by P. Funk December 20, 2010