Performing an action with no effort put in and simply leaving it to chance whether you get a good outcome.
Commonly used in sports, particularly basketball, to refer to inexperienced players who, instead of putting effort in, aiming and such, they simply throw the ball at the hoop and hope it goes in.
Can also be used for other sports, like in baseball when you are just swinging the bat at the baseball and hope it hits instead of trying to aim it, or any other sport.
Derived from the term, “going out on a limb.”
Commonly used in sports, particularly basketball, to refer to inexperienced players who, instead of putting effort in, aiming and such, they simply throw the ball at the hoop and hope it goes in.
Can also be used for other sports, like in baseball when you are just swinging the bat at the baseball and hope it hits instead of trying to aim it, or any other sport.
Derived from the term, “going out on a limb.”
A: Why am I not making any shots?!
B: Because you're not actually aiming the ball, you're just limbing.
A: Yes! I finally made a shot!
B: That was completely luck. You were limbing the whole time.
B: Because you're not actually aiming the ball, you're just limbing.
A: Yes! I finally made a shot!
B: That was completely luck. You were limbing the whole time.
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Get the limitlesscj999 mug.A system of government in which personal spending is capped at a certain amount per year (e.g. $2,500,000 annually), while corporate spending may exceed this limit.
A limitocracy is the antidote to a kleptocracy, because it limits greed and economic inequality.
A limitocracy is different from communism and socialism, because it doesn't cap personal income or wealth, nor does it limit corporate spending.
A limitocracy is different from communism and socialism, because it doesn't cap personal income or wealth, nor does it limit corporate spending.
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Get the Lemmings mug.A cause for mass suicide, very quickly. The aesthetic of being lemmings and one by one jumping off a cliff and killing yourself.
The incredibly racist groupchat you're in being exposed is lemmingcore. Finding out that the bop passed around your friendgroup has chlymidia is lemmingcore. Having the hoes at a party find out that you and your friends play Overwatch in your free time is lemmingcore.
A girl breaking up with you is NOT lemmingcore, because it doesn't affect anyone else besides your sorry ass. Your dog dying is NOT lemmingcore because it's not a reason to kys.
The incredibly racist groupchat you're in being exposed is lemmingcore. Finding out that the bop passed around your friendgroup has chlymidia is lemmingcore. Having the hoes at a party find out that you and your friends play Overwatch in your free time is lemmingcore.
A girl breaking up with you is NOT lemmingcore, because it doesn't affect anyone else besides your sorry ass. Your dog dying is NOT lemmingcore because it's not a reason to kys.
Jeffrey Epstein: "Holy shit, all of our crimes are currently being exposed by the media!"
Ghislaine Maxwell: "That's so lemmingcore."
(Real overheard conversation between these two, I swear)
Ghislaine Maxwell: "That's so lemmingcore."
(Real overheard conversation between these two, I swear)
by grisch January 17, 2025
Get the lemmingcore mug.the adjective "liminal" comes from the yearly festival of the gim. it's used to describe those who are undoubtedly gimble. it can also be used alternatively when one is particularly viscous.
person a: "wow, you're so liminal!"
person b: "why thank you. i would say that i am very gimble, and rather viscous."
person a: "i'm going to turn you into a blimp."
person b: "why thank you. i would say that i am very gimble, and rather viscous."
person a: "i'm going to turn you into a blimp."
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Get the liminal mug.The epistemological crisis that occurs when the rigid, methodological boundaries of science are used to dismiss phenomena or entire domains of inquiry (like paranormality, supernaturality, astral projection, mediumship, or claims of an afterlife) not because they have been conclusively disproven, but because they inherently resist or exist outside the standardized tools of verification. The "limit" is the edge of science's operational domain. This problem highlights the danger of conflating "unexplained by current science" with "false" or "meaningless." When parapsychology investigates psi phenomena, or when narratives of reincarnation present veridical memories, the pseudoscience label is often applied not due to a failure of internal coherence within those claims, but due to their violation of materialist assumptions or their reliance on non-repeatable, subjective experience. This creates a catch-22: the phenomena, by their purported nature, evade the controlled, reproducible experiment—the very benchmark used to declare them pseudoscientific. Thus, the label can become a circular defense of the scientific paradigm's limits, rather than a fair assessment of the claims' substantive truth or falsehood.
Example: "A medium provides specific, verified details about a deceased person unknown to her. The skeptic invokes the Limit Problem of Pseudoscience: he can't explain it, so he labels it 'pseudoscience' and cites a lack of lab replication. But the phenomenon—if real—might be rare, personal, and context-dependent, inherently fleeing the laboratory setting. The 'pseudoscience' accusation here doesn't address the anomaly; it protects science from having to expand its methods to account for messy, singular experiences that haunt its borders."
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