A principle suggesting that when confronted with a problem or mystery, the most convoluted, outlandish, or improbable explanation is often the one people are most likely to believe — especially if it inflates their sense of drama, suspicion, or personal importance.
Forget the simple answer — remember Occam’s Balloon: if there’s a secret cabal of lizard people behind it, someone out there believes it.
by Halak Qz April 1, 2025
Get the Occam’s Balloonmug. 1 - Refers to when your mind is filled with too many random things and preoccupations, and your thoughts get incoherent, hence making you a balloon-head. Gets it's sense as being a metaphor for a balloon, which is always full and big, but always filled with nothing.
2 - Can also be used as an insult, in a similar sense to "empty-minded" or "thoughtless".
2 - Can also be used as an insult, in a similar sense to "empty-minded" or "thoughtless".
• I've got such a balloon-head today. Didn't sleep well, and the tests are next weekend.
• She's such a balloon-head. Her boyfriend goes on dates with her brother, and still, she always finds reasons to forgive him.
• She's such a balloon-head. Her boyfriend goes on dates with her brother, and still, she always finds reasons to forgive him.
by bolasgrandes de cuiabá February 24, 2023
Get the Balloon-headmug. by Maxwell GotBands August 4, 2025
Get the Milwaukee Balloonmug. It's your anus
by Knotty pine July 28, 2016
Get the balloon knotmug. by Toneage February 17, 2020
Get the Balloon Knot Slapmug. Is when a man with an uncurcumcised penis pulls his foreskin to the top of his penis to shape a little area to store urine and or semen, usually filling the area up with urine, until it eventually bursts like a water balloon
Man 1: Yea man I tried that water ballooning thing you told me about and got piss all over my sink
Man 2: wow dude you actually tried water ballooning?
Man 2: wow dude you actually tried water ballooning?
by NotPyro October 27, 2016
Get the Water Ballooningmug. To let out a lot of gas with a fart, relieving pressure in your gut or also to fart, making a noise similar to a rapidly deflating balloon.
Ah man I just love when I deflate the balloon, it always feels so good to deflate a bit.
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I just heard someone deflating the balloon, I don't want to go near them.
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I just heard someone deflating the balloon, I don't want to go near them.
by theStarOfFaith May 27, 2024
Get the Deflating the Balloonmug.