The Westbrook Effect

The event of when a player on a team makes his teammates worse. Can be used to describe any event where a person negatively affects the performance of a teammate or colleague .

You are playing terrible! It must be because you are playing with Russell. It's the Westbrook effect!

I can't believe I have to play with Russell. Now I'm not going to play good because of the Westbrook effect.

by Shaq Diesel47 May 21, 2018

The Hunter Effect

When you were super popular, and now nobody likes you.

"He got hit hard with a case of The Hunter Effect"
"Sucks, he has The Hunter Effect"

by Hehshdn May 3, 2017

bockman effect

Getting everyone at a gathering to take a shot

The Bockman effect is in full effect tonight! Everyone is drunk!

by Meeeps3 February 17, 2017

cache effects

A made up reason explaining some phenomenon. Has no real meaning, but is used as a placeholder for BS-ing, especially in computer science.

Sam: Dr. Plank, what causes those strange aberrations in your graph?
Dr. Plank: Don't worry Sam, those are just cache effects.

by BTreesEvryDay June 21, 2016

calzone effect

When your buddie orders a calzone delivered to your house and then you order one within an hour causing the calzone effect to take place

I ordered a calzone because of the calzone effect

by Green420ray June 6, 2016

The Keemstar Effect

It's when some no-name YouTuber gets popular through being on DramaAlert, or being shown on one of LeafyisHere's or Pyrocynical's videos.

Person 1: Did you hear that LtCorbis was featured on LeafyisHere?
Person 2: Must be the Keemstar Effect again, she's got 100k subscribers now.

by FoxofGrey July 25, 2016

The Kirishima Effect

noun, The Kirishima Effect is an effect one feels when they feel a strong attraction to any fictional character, more often anime, solely on the fact that they wish to have them as a friend in real life or someone like them as a friend in real life.

"Man, you know Mako Mankanshoku from Kill la Kill?" "Yeah?" "She really invokes the Kirishima Effect on me."

by IanNBF November 1, 2019