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When a comment or situation makes you either throw up, or chew through the jacket that you are holding up to your face to protect you from this person/tv
I cringe watching the x-factor finallist's trying to sing a deep moving song and the audience laps it all up as if they havent seen it a 458 thousand times before.

Everyday situation:

American: "hey guys!!"

The general english public: cringe
Cringe by slowdem July 25, 2009
Not conforming to your idea of norm.
Anything and everything is Cringe at St. Stephen's College, Delhi.
You
You are cringe
Cringe by Donald grums February 19, 2021
you
you are cringe
Cringe by Mrcoolgamerdude March 8, 2022
Cringe is a word, implemented by millennials to replace a three word phrase "second hand embarrassment".
*Person A presenting a PowerPoint presentation about China infront of his history class*
Person A: ... Oh and if anyone is wondering on July 4th 1989 nothing happened on Tiananmen Square. Now about the...
Person B quietly to itself: Cringe.
Cringe by low@ September 13, 2020