Shifting baselines are the chronic, slow, hard-to-notice changes in things, from the disappearance of birds and frogs in the countryside to the increased drive time from New York to Philadelphia.
If your ideal weight used to be 180 pounds and now it's 195, your baseline -- as well as your waistline -- has shifted. That's an example of shifting baselines.
by GPLegend September 18, 2008
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Get the sfiftol mug.A person who exhibits extremely shifty behaviour (IE: Looking around excessively, wearing baggy clothing when it's warm out, sweating, shaking, breathing heavily, etc.). Usually turns out to be either some sort of sex offender, a shoplifter, or both.
"Dude, did you see the Shift case who just left our store? He smelled like... rotting onions. I wonder what he stole?"
by Shubert March 4, 2009
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Woman (as she covers her drink): "Step away from my drink Shifty Sleeves!"
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"A truck driver who shifted his own stick in the cereal aisle of a Delaware County grocery store then ejaculated on a female customer last month was arrested in Kentucky on Sunday, police said." - Philadelphia Daily News 04/06/2011
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