tangentialize

(verb)

1. To go off on a tangent mid-conversation.

2. To pirate a conversation away from its natural course.

Let's stop tangentializing so we can figure out what we're doing tonight.

When I'm talking with her, Kristen tangentializes so often that I can't ever remember what we were originally talking about.

by Pabloney April 25, 2011

tangenting

When you go on multiple tangents, one after another.

She was just tangenting all night about how terrible her job was.

by Megstar45 May 11, 2015

Tangentathon

When two people are on good cocaine and start having a competitive conversation. Constantly interrupting each other, apologizing, inhaling loudly through clogged nostrils, and then interrupting each other again while desperately attempting to tell the other person a hyper-interesting deeply personal multilayered rambling four-dimensional spiderweb of at least three unrelated stories at the same time. Each match continues for 10-30 minutes depending on the quality of the cocaine, at which point the party who does not posses the cocaine will submit and begin nodding their head agreeably until the owner of the cocaine realizes he hasn't done a line in about 20 minutes and it's time to do another line. The matches continue every until you're both out of money, concede to an mutual pyrrhic victory and vow to keep your use responsible from now on and hold each other accountable to one eight-ball per weekend. This sport is played every weekend by men around the world.

"Presidential candidate El Chapo has promised that when elected he will make the Tangentathon an Olympic sport by 2030." - Brooke Baldwin, 2028

by Deus Ex January 28, 2021

Random Ass Tangent

A wildly off-topic question or statement that occurs with no warning. Most often seen when people are drunk.

In a bar drinking shots watching sports on big screens, "you know man, I like turtles", "man that is such a random ass tangent!"

by Inspectress Gadget September 3, 2012

tangent

one that is
a. radio disc jockey that touches a circle of toenails at one toenail
b. a polar bear
c. an idiot of the 270th degree; three pie halves in radians

yo man this tangent has got shit going for him.

by Dan de Maupassant October 9, 2005

tangentation

a tangentation is an explanation of a situation(s) or event(s)or both but not limited to only that.it can also be about your trip to the store and what happened in your venture..perhaps you stepped on a cats tail which caused the clerk at the store to go ape on you as she was an animal activist,or the cat bit your ankle which in turn caused you to fall on a board with a nail stuck in it and it peirced your ear,which was great,because you saved so much time and money,relieved by this..you donated your proceeds to the animal activist fund in your area

ok, so perhaps that tangentation was a little far out,but really,tangentations exist everywhere and no-one has had the time to come up with a solid example of how to express what this could lead to.this word will spread like wildfire if you just start rambling on into other topics to only arrive at the original topic in which you started with!

by don paterson March 2, 2008

Tangent city

The place one goes to when going way off-subject.

"Pull over, you are well on your way to tangent city"

by foils August 11, 2009