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Steam Show

See Heat Pump and Defrost Cycle. A winter phenomenon produced by a heat pump, for which conditions have to be just right. If you actually catch a heat pump giving a steam show and have a video camera handy, it makes for one hell of a YouTube video.

Many heat pumps have interval defrost and will have a defrost cycle every 30, 60, or 90 minutes whether they need to or not, even if they are NOT frozen or iced over. The ones with more modern demand defrost will oly defrost on an as-needed basis, basically when there is ice/frost buildup on the coils. The best conditions for a steam show are when it is below 40 degrees, and a heat pump will freeze up much faster when it is wet, rainy, or snowy. However, a heat pump is capable of producing a good steam show on a nice, sunny day with no precipitation. The best steam shows typically occur below 37 degrees regardless of weather conditions.

How much steam a heat pump produces depends on the outside temperature, how much ice/frost/snow has built up on the outdoor coils, and the heat pump itself. To someone not familiar with a heat pump, a steam show can be misleading, and calls to the fire department in the winter by people claiming their heat pump is on fire are not out of the ordinary. Some stubborn customers also wind up spending hundreds of dollars on unnecessary service calls only to find out their heat pump is doing exactly what it is supposed to do.
The heat pump at the elderly couple's new condo produced such a big steam show that they thought the unit was on fire, shut it off, and called the HVAC company, only to find out that their heat pump was doing exactly what it was supposed to.

An HVAC tech once told me the story of a customer who observed a steam show and thought their heat pump was on fire, and paid over a hundred dollars for a guy to come out only to tell them it had been defrosting.
by AutoHVACNut March 15, 2012
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Sanchez Steamer

“Don’t even act like you don’t know what a Sanchez Steamer is. Now do it.”
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stampylonghead

A kid-friendly Minecraft youtuber who has a lot of subs thanks to his childish-related personality. He did swear in 2012, and he once said "fucking". So not that kid-friendly back in the day?
Bro, what are you watching? Idk who it is?
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steaming teabag

placing of one's scrotum on the forehead of another and farting
Dan passed out drunk and his roomie Tim gave him a loud steaming teabag. I laughed and had to do it too!
by Evil Jedi December 28, 2006
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Hairy Stamper

When the male ejaculates on a woman's chest and presses his pubic hair on the ejaculant and creates a stamp mark on the woman's head with the jizz as ink and the pubes as a stamp.
"I didn't have enough jizz to do a hairy stamper with my girl friend."
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Fugg Stamp

To shit on your balls and then to tea bag someone.
Drew totally Fugg Stamped your mother last night, she had fesses all over where the tea bag dropped. or Drew gave your mom a peanut butter and nut sandwich when he Fugg Stamped her.
by pimpsicles23 December 13, 2009
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Beef Steamship

Aw man! I was going to use the hot tub, but someone left a Beef Steamship in there
by Cactus Con Carne February 6, 2017
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