weapons of mass distraction

Something that distracts large numbers of people from thinking about important issues.

For a few hours at least today, the heat will be off George W Bush as America switches focus from Baghdad to the Super Bowl. Maybe the Super Bowl will be the weapon of mass distraction that Bush has been praying for.

by afroken January 15, 2004

Distraction Word

When you are looking up a word on UrbanDictionary.com and you see another word that interests you and you loose track of what you were looking at in the first place.

Example Distraction Words; Cullen Angry Dragon Alaskan Pipeline Tea Bag Bombing the titanic Tony Danza or any other words you come across on the UrbanDictionary website.

by dic fast December 6, 2009

Dissection

Taking apart, or exploring

"I dissected the frog, and found his intestines very gross!"

by Michael Wilkes November 8, 2003

erectile disfuction

one usually a men who has difficulty obtainng erection who needs to use a medication such as viagra or cialis

DYlkan Field.... has trouble gettin a boner therefore he has an erectile disfuction unlike his friend philson who has no problem getting one!

by pilldyl July 24, 2006

Distraction

A self-created problem where another subject, object or person has brought your attention off of the activity, subject, object or person you were originally fixated on. This is usually caused by a lack of interest in the initial subject, or just plain weakness.

Guy 1 "You are a distraction."
Guy 2 " No, you just have a horrible attention span. Maybe you should work on ignoring your surroundings more."

by Glumpher October 20, 2011

distractional focus

This occurs when you need to be working with someone else, listening to music, watching television, or doing something else while doing academic work in order to help you focus better

I could not focus fully on my history work, so I asked my friend to be my distractional focus

by blitz425 November 13, 2009

Disnacktion

The tendency to forget about, or lose focus on, the thing or things qwith which you were engaged, in favor of acquiring food.

I missed the second half of the Mentalist because I was disnackted by making s'mores. That taco bell commercial was a total disnacktion and I had to get fourth meal.

by Iliveinacave February 14, 2015