Flame shift

To deflect judgment for being a terrible person and/or doing terrible things by jumping on the momentum of hate toward someone else. Typically used by canceled influencers/celebs in an attempt to regain public favor and win back their audience.

Despite being extremely problematic figures in their own right, Jeffree Star and James Charles have chosen to flame shift to Mikayla Nogueria for lying to her fans, hoping that the community will forget their much worse misdeeds.

by IndigoPhoenix21 February 23, 2023

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The Soft Shift

(Verb) The unethical act of your Precinct's Captain or Lieutenant (in some cases Sergeant), assigning a shift to you with no prior notice or attempts to inform you.

The Soft Shift is typically accompanied by a firm, "come on (your name)... I know you saw it on your schedule... and now I don't have any other Officers to get it covered..."

by Salty_LEO_1984 July 25, 2019

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shift-faced

Riding motorcycles or quads around completely wasted. term comes from a brand of riding gear called Shift.

lets drink before we go riding, i want to go out shift-faced

by Papacav May 14, 2010

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Red Shift

A red-shift in the light from a star shows that the distance between us and the star is increasing. The bigger the red-shift the faster the star is moving away.

Student: "Teacher what is red shift?"
Teacher: "Red shift is the wavelength of the light that is stretched, so the light is seen as 'shifted' towards the red part of the spectrum. "

by Dr. Annole March 21, 2023

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shift cripple

term, which describes little 93'-kiddies, who don't know when to hit the shift-button on their keyboard. These kids mostly use abbreviations like ILY and/or lysm.

kid writes on yahoo: "i loVe YoU sO mUCh!"
I reply: "You's a shift cripple"

by Pop the cherry April 4, 2009

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