This occurs in classrooms or other large public settings. Usually one person begins to cough, and other people who needed to cough, but were afraid to do so, join in, causing multiple coughing sounds at the same time.
Person 1: Ugh why does everyone have to cough at once, it's so annoying.
Person 2: It's the coughing effect, duh.
Person 2: It's the coughing effect, duh.
by hoyaplaya September 30, 2009
Get the coughing effectmug. When you begin to feel angry, sad, depressed, lonely, stupid, dumb, less smart and enraged at the same time. It can cause raging, such as throwing Kumon work, burning Kumon work or becoming a taxidermist and stuffing Kumon instructors.
by Lebron steve June 17, 2019
Get the The Kumon Effectmug. Condition where the inhabitants of an island consider the island their universe. Anything outside the island is foreign, alien, indistinguishable.
Vera suffered from an acute case of the island effect. She never left the island and thought they were insulated to plagues and economic depressions.
by islandeffect December 7, 2009
Get the island effectmug. by Westy Baby August 13, 2016
Get the The Júlia Effectmug. When you are predisposed to hate a character that shows up on screen but you are surprised that he/she was not as annoying as you thought.
When Uncle Grandpa cameoed on Steven Universe, it was sort of like the Olaf Effect. You would think you would hate him, but you didn't (sort of).
by The Logical Fallacy February 1, 2016
Get the Olaf Effectmug. Friend 1: I was feeling pretty crap the other day so I started singing. It seemed to solve all my problems.
Friend 2: Sounds like you had a case of the Glee-Effect.
Friend 2: Sounds like you had a case of the Glee-Effect.
by FromMelbTown May 24, 2010
Get the Glee-Effectmug. Polo shirts sold by J.C. Penney without the customary breast pocket demonstrates the Walmart effect.
by Lane D. April 29, 2008
Get the Walmart effectmug.