A phrase meant to indicate that the apparently female subject of a photo or video might in fact be male, with large hands being the tell. It was invented in the Something Awful subforum "Laissez Faire" in 2009. It has since spread to several other online communities, including Badgame Dot Com.

When the “crush” has no intentions of taking things further, but they like the attention. So they flirt here or there, send dm/texts just to keep the person interested, knowing damn well they’re staying single.