Tangent

Noun: A completely and utterly worthless computer company that sells blocks a shit, aka laptops, to college students. The company attempts to conceal their horrible product by including "exclusive" university features. What they don't tell you is that you can by a laptop for over $1,000 cheaper that is better performance-wise, and those exclusive programs are free from the university website.

Can also be used to reference a worthless piece of crap, or a dick move.

Student 1: "Wow, this is the fifth time in a month I've taken my Tangent computer in. What a piece of shit."
Student 2: "You should fake an accident to your computer and get the warranty money. Buy something better."

Kid 1: "My car broke down again."
Kid 2: "What a fucking Tangent."

Kid 1: "Dude, Tangent move..."
Kid 2: "My bad."

by Flyers January 17, 2008

tangent parkour

The act of jumping from tangent to tangent in a conversation.

"Yeah we started talking about what to do this weekend and started doing tangent parkour, an hour later we were discussing quantum mechanics."

by DarkGod86 September 29, 2021

Tangential vigilantes

A group intent on refraining from introducing a subject utterly irrelevant and unrelated to the conversation already in progress. Two or more people determined to curtail comments made by a clueless third party that take a hard detour from the topic being discussed.

Even though they were Tangential Vigilantes, I could not follow what the fuck they were taking about.

by Zkeballer January 24, 2023

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