Walmart effect

When retailers remove extras from their products to make them more price-competitive with Wal-Mart.

Polo shirts sold by J.C. Penney without the customary breast pocket demonstrates the Walmart effect.

by Lane D. April 29, 2008

Special Effects

Contemporary art that eschews style, content and technical skill and replaces these with hip effects like randomly applied paint drips and stencils. A reference to action movies that consist entirely of explosions, car chases and CGI.

Guy: I thought it was a good show, with some really aesthetically interesting stencils of spiderwebs...
Guy2: Yeah but you're into special effects.

by foxinshocks September 25, 2008

island effect

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

The Piehole Effect

Downticks in the stock market associated with pronouncements from George W. Bush.

I sold my stocks before Bush gave his press conference, because of the Piehole Effect.

by Zrusilla May 9, 2004

Sheep Effect

When somebody starts doing something and everybody else starts to copy them. Named because sheep are followers, and connot make up their own minds.

Suzie: Hey look at Bob waving his arms!
Kimmy: Wow thats so strange
(one person starts waving there arms in a crowd. Soon everybody is waving their arms)
Suzie: Why is everyone waving their arms?
Kimmy starts to wave arms
Suzie: I thought you said it was strange
Kimmy: Well thats the sheep effect. We all just copy one person
Suzie starts to wave arms

by creater of sheeps June 18, 2011

stern effect

The contents in Howard Stern's radio talk show were so provocative and offensive that the show lovers and haters can't seem to turn him off but to keep listing to him just to see what he'll say next therefore creating an effect of a hating audience toward a specific entertainer to keep watching or listening to the performance just to see what kind of crap he/she can come up with even though it is not what the audience want.

LonelyGirl15 has a great stern effect on youtube viewers because the people who hate her can't wait to watch her newest youtube videos and leave bad comments about her or her videos.

by cproud January 2, 2009

Quince Effect

Not quite - I thought was when a bisexual man picks up a woman in a gay club by spinning her the line that "I've never been with a woman, but now I'm confused"!

The Quince Effect was in action last night in Marthas - will these girls never learn?!

by Matelot April 26, 2005