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proxy let down

n. A feeling of despair felt as a result of the failure of one's favourite team etc. The failure is felt on a deeply personal level despite one's lack of contribution.

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Yo. What's with the black armband.

I just feel so terrible today. I thought I gave it all I had. I tried to leave everything on the couch. I wore my team jersey, painted my face, bought a bumper sticker. I should have done more. I feel like I've let everybody down.

It's just proxy let down my man. Next season get some vintage jerseys for your kids and a recliner in the team colours.
by gnostic 1 February 3, 2013
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gonorrhea by proxy

The act of transmitting something terrible, through someone else.

Often abbreviated "GBP," as to avoid social stigma.

Also refers to the actual contraction of gonorrhea.
I wasn't in class on Tuesday, so Jimmy picked up my exam for me. When I saw my C-, it was gonorrhea by proxy.

Which is larger: Long Island's GBP, or its GDP?

Man, gonorrhea by proxy. That sucks.
by Mahmoud J March 31, 2008
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corporate-speak or PC phrase to describe someone who's got their head stuck squarely up their ass.
Not sure what's going on with Joe today - he's acting like a real jerk. Maybe he's suffering from cranial rectal proximity syndrome
by Annakaleia September 30, 2011
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privilege by proxy

Anytime a person of color either looks white enough or acts white enough to get by the white people's racist radar, granting the full benefits of white privilege. This also applies to any time a person of color gains the benefit of white privilege by hanging out with white people.
Guy 1: Joe got pulled over and he didn't even get a ticket or nothin'!
Guy 2: How did he pull that off?
Guy 1: I was in the car with him so he got privilege by proxy.
by Reverend Oats June 11, 2020
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Proximity Obsession

Compulsive preoccupation with a fixed idea, feeling or emotion, often accompanied by symptoms of anxiety when close to a given person or thing.
1. When a guy talks to a waitress at a bar and she asks him what he would like to drink, that guy then has a proximity obsession and thinks he has a chance to score because she talked to him. 2. A wanting for an item that is within your immediate vicinity but you had no desire or wanting for it otherwise.
by Brad Humphrey March 25, 2006
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proxy husband

A single man who is used as a sex toy and temporary father figure for a woman who's still married but in the process of getting divorced.
Paula was using Tim as a proxy husband until she figured out what she was doing with her life.

His role was one of a proxy husband.
by Erock April 7, 2004
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proxy

acting as substitute for another, or what h4x0rs use to be "invisible"
Kevin Mitnick should have used a proxy.
by [KdAwG] December 11, 2002
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