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Helicopter Gunship Parent

A helicopter parent who, to promote their child, will proactively neutralize a person perceived to hinder their own child's advancement.

The effective target of a helicopter gunship parent is a child with more talent and better performance than their own, in a activity with limited opportunities or resources. By a range of overt and covert aggressive methods, the helicopter gunship parent will remove the other child's competition, or the third party who has control over allocation of opportunities and resources, from the activity.

Characteristic outcomes of helicopter gunship parent activity are unwarranted advancement of their own child, other more talented children and their parents/teachers/organisers declining to participate or contribute to the activity, and degraded performance of the activity due to loss of talent. The benefitting child may also suffer reputational damage due to their helicopter gunship parent's activity, even if the child is unaware of the activity or an unwilling beneficiary in the activity.

Common situations of helicopter gunship parent action are sport team selection and role allocation, school drama involvement, academic or sport prizes and scholarships, and school leadership roles.
How can Adam's kids be in such high-level teams but be so doggedly mediocre and continually hold back the team performance? He is a helicopter gunship parent; over the years, he made all the better players walk away from the sport.

Tony's second-rate son got that top academic prize only because Tony is a helicopter gunship parent. I don't know how he did it but he got the award panel to quit then he got himself and his friends on it. The prize and the school is a bad joke.
by Innocent Bypasser January 13, 2024
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Maximum Intensity Helicopter

The art of spinning your dick so fast you fly threw the window leaving your girl empty handed but you'll feel like you've accomplished somthing in your kinky life
The Maximum Intensity Helicopter is probably the most outrageous thing I ever did, and I'm proud of it
by SenpaiWillNeverNoticeYou March 18, 2015
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Utah Helicopter

When someone is so drunk they can't speak and/or text right and talk about random things. Including but not limited too: stories about girls who squirted all over there shirt, why they love taco bell so much (because all drunk people like taco bell), and random girls they like.
Jake was a Utah helicopter last night. Did you hear him talking about taco bell non-stop?
by Zackhicky October 21, 2010
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helicopter dick

The method that Achu uses to land girls. It is his best, most failproof move.
Achu gyrates his pelvis in a club to show women just how well he can helicopter dick in private.
by failedmachine September 4, 2022
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Sloppy Helicopter

So you know that thing in gym class, where you had to put your forehead on a baseball bat and run around in circles and then run a race? It’s like that, but with someone’s mouth on a penis.
I laid that bad boy down and gave him a sloppy helicopter.
by CoolArchaeologist42069 September 9, 2021
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Helicopters

Feeling of your head spinning, especially when trying to sleep after a night of heavy drinking.
When did you go to sleep last night?
I could'nt fall asleep for a couple of hours. I was having crazy Helicopters.
by GranDyer January 7, 2020
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