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eighth grade syndrome 

1. A time in life everyone tries to forget. It usually involves acting totally different than you actually are. Sometimes people think they have superpowers or think that they are super cool. No matter what case of 8th grade syndrome it is, people will never want to remember it.
Guy: Remember back when you had eighth grade syndrome you thought you had superpowers and were destined to save the world.
Guy 2: I was trying to forget those dark times.
Word of the Day on August 15, 2022
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"Young Lion Syndrome" 

In a pride of lions, one (occasionally as many as 3-4) male is the undisputed leader. This male is usually between the ages of 3 and 15, and it is he who mates with all the females, drives out the younger males, and defends the pride from outside threats.

Young lions, on the other hand, are driven out of the pride by the old male/s when they reach maturity. From this point on they generally roam, looking for an old male to challenge and replace as head of their own pride.

The analogy extends to human behavior, particularly in areas where men compete, such as sports and social situations. For instance, an 18-year old college freshman continually trying to outchug a 24-year old graduate student who has been drinking for several years may be referred to as having "Young Lion Syndrome."
Headline: Vitali Klitschko knocks out Samuel Peter! Today the old lion returned to defend his crown. 37-year old Vitali Klitschko hammered 28-year old Samuel Peter, forcing him to quit at the end of the eighth round.

Peter declared during a press conference prior to the fight that Klitschko was "too old" to defeat him - clearly a case of "Young Lion Syndrome".
"Young Lion Syndrome" by havick March 25, 2009

Skinny Jean-Leg Hair Syndrome 

When putting on skinny jeans, your leg hair is swept upward. Then after taking your pants off, your leg hair are still pointing up.

Usually return to normal after an hour or two on their own or after a shower.

Sometimes painful

Irritable Bitch Syndrome 

The persistently inflammatory condition of a bitchy person, resulting in poor absorption of positive experiences while they express frequent yet pointless bitchiness. Habitual of certain men and women.
The beautiful, sunny day at the pricey amusement park was a nightmare with her Irritable Bitch Syndrome flaring up every ten minutes.

White-Picket-Fence-Syndrome 

a state of mind where a person blindly holds on to the idea of their perfect lifestyle, regardless of the inevitable life factors that make it impossible for it to be true.

For example if your mom keeps acting as if your family is that all American "white picket fence" family from the 50s, when no one acts or thinks that way (Extreme example:your parents expecte everyone to come home and talk about their day but your brother is hooked on meth and never comes home while your sister is at her boyfriends house pretending she doesn't have a family).
My mom has such a white-picket-fence-syndrome!

Half-Life 3 syndrome 

A phenomenon that occurs when a piece of media (mostly video games) is put on hiatus or when there is a very large gap inbetween releases, where people will overhype and praise the content to the high heavens, even before release. It then either doesn't get released or does get released, causing everyone to be disappointed because their soaring expectations weren't met, that weren't very realistic in the first place.

This isn't the doings of the developers, this is the doing of the community who in an attempt to keep their hopes up, make excuses about their favorite piece of media being or soon becoming the greatest piece of entertainement ever, e.g. Half Life 3. Aforementioned hopes are then usually crushed and they go to metacritic to rate the item a flat 1 or 2.
Adam: ''My god, Duke Nukem Forever sucked!''
James: ''It was overhyped to all-hell and in development for like 10 years, ofcourse you were going to be let down.''
Adam: ''Classic case of Half-Life 3 syndrome.''
Half-Life 3 syndrome by Pillium December 25, 2013

Big Dick Syndrome 

When a man with a big dick feels like that’s all he needs to offer resulting in weak ass foreplay
Girl...he had big dick syndrome....no foreplay just wanted to murder the pussy. Smh
Big Dick Syndrome by AllyGDMV October 5, 2020