The phenomenon occurs when multiple defenders are in position to challenge an attacking player, but due to hesitation, miscommunication, or uncertainty about responsibility, none of them step up to engage. As a result, the attacker faces less resistance than expected, often gaining space or time to advance. This defensive lapse is driven by a diffusion of responsibility, where each defender assumes another will take action, leading to collective inaction.
It was pressing paralysis at its finest, three defenders doing the ‘after you, sir’ routine while the striker waltzed through like he owned the place.
by ThinkingManCa April 3, 2025
Get the Pressing Paralysismug. The act of gently pressing on an Individuals Butthole, over their pants or garments to prevent penetration.
by Absolutetruth April 9, 2019
Get the French Pressmug. Putting pressure on someone identified as an "innocent" bystander by the person doing the pressing, often without good cause, reason, or a point to doing it.
If someone wasn't having the police press people, why would they know what time the police usually back off at? It's not something most people would learn from experience, as jobs keep most people from having the luxury of staying up until dawn on a regular basis to learn it that way.
by The Original Agahnim July 28, 2021
Get the Pressmug. The act of being caught in between two fat chicks in a fight. Named from the crushing weight/heavy blows from each participant impacting the victim betwixt them.
“I nearly got the hydraulic press treatment when Ava and Lisa started going at it.”
“If the principal just made an octagon for these heavy set bitches we wouldn’t have this issue.”
“If the principal just made an octagon for these heavy set bitches we wouldn’t have this issue.”
by Alan McStinkbutt June 1, 2024
Get the Hydraulic Pressmug. by Nnnnnnn??? July 27, 2019
Get the Pressed Hotdogmug. To go off on someone and scream in their face. Most of the time push them into a corner or surround them too.
Ben to Friend: I’m gonna go press Riley
Ben: So you think it’s f*cking okay to do that?!
Riley: I didn’t do shit I swear
Ben: So you think it’s f*cking okay to do that?!
Riley: I didn’t do shit I swear
by violet2abby March 2, 2022
Get the pressmug. Pressing female butt cheeks against the window from the inside of a car. Often while the car is in motion. If you can only see the butt cheeks, it is called a moon. But if you can see her cooter along with the moon, it is referred to as a cooter-press. Her butt along with her cooter are pressed against the window.
Oh my gosh Dilbert, did you see the car that just passed us? The girl in the back seat was giving us a cooter-press. Speed up and see if she will do it again.
by Pokefan88 January 9, 2009
Get the cooter-pressmug.