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Bubble Wrap Bandits

A playful term for individuals who exhibit traits typically associated with being overprotected during childhood, often resulting in a heightened sensitivity to humor, criticism, or challenging discussions.

This term suggests a person who navigates the world as if wrapped in bubble wrap, avoiding discomfort or confrontation to maintain a sense of safety.

Commonly used in social discourse to describe someone who may struggle to cope with satire, irony, or constructive feedback, often responding with defensiveness, outrage, or feeling "triggered" by remarks that challenge their worldview.

The term can also highlight the cultural conversation around parenting styles and the impact of 'safe spaces' in modern society, questioning the balance between protecting children and preparing them for real-world interactions.

The Bubble Wrap Bandits, with their finely honed sensitivity to every jab of humor and critique, are slowly but surely taking over the world, wrapping society in a protective layer of outrage and defensiveness. This new wave of hypersensitivity stifles satire, demands safe spaces at every turn, and reshapes conversations to avoid anything remotely uncomfortable or challenging, as even the slightest criticism or ironic remark is met with defensive outrage—lest the very fabric of their worldview burst at the smallest poke.
Let’s face it: the Bubble Wrap Bandits are slowly taking over, and soon enough, no one will be able to take a joke without triggering an outcry. The world’s becoming so wrapped in defensiveness that humor’s getting suffocated under layers of outrage and hypersensitivity.
by TonyBamanaboniNZ November 8, 2024
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wrapped up like an onion

to be wearing many layers of clothes.
by golly it was a cold day today! i was wearing so many clothes i was wrapped up like an onion!!!
by ski0058 January 1, 2010
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Snack Wrap

It's the part of the body dat pops out to u
Man that dudes snack wrap look bigger than a hot dog.
I Want To beeh her snack and unwrap dat gift.
by Sinqle_Gurl_Swaqq=] April 14, 2010
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Wrap it ‘fore you tap it

Said in tune to Migos ft . Drake “Walk it, Talk it”
“Walk it like I talk it, walk it walk it like I talk it”
Wrap it ‘fore you tap it, wrap it wrap it ‘fore you tap it”
by Sonena March 27, 2023
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tree wraps

Another term for cigars & cigarillos used for rolling blunts.
by Brain54 November 18, 2015
mugGet the tree wrapsmug.

bubble-wrapped

A person who lives so comfortably in an echo chamber that they become fragile when confronted with any opinions outside of it.

Coddled to the point of being ready to explode.
Your friend Griper can't handle being spoken to like an adult because she's bubble-wrapped. Her friends treat her with kid gloves, because if they don't she'll pop off at them.
by Shawn.Fleek!! February 4, 2022
mugGet the bubble-wrappedmug.

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