when a social situation, action, person, or physical item is cringe-worthy; you feel second-hand embarrassment for the people involved. can be used as an adjective or exclamation.
“did you hear the joke that Dan made during his presentation today?”
“ahhh yes, choms!!”
“the sweatshirts she made for the bachelorette party are sooo choms”
The amazing alternative word for 'banana' invented by Hank Green at Crash Course because hey, language is weird and if Gretchen can make "fetch" happen we can make "chom choms" a thing.
Hank: IT IS A CHOM CHOM!
Normal Human: OMG stop trying to make 'chom choms' happen.
a long-standing good friend, one whom the speaker has shared many good times with; a buddy, a pal, a chum; what you say when an old buddy of yours walks into the room
A phenomenon in film/television series, most notably streaming series, where the main premise is drawn out to such a point that it takes an entire season or more to get the parts of the series the audience is actually interested in seeing.
For example, if a series is titled "Surf Dracula," a majority of viewers would tune in expecting to see Dracula surfing by the first or second episode. However, the entire first season would instead be tedious padding and backstory before finally ending with Dracula surfing in the last five minutes of the season finale.
I watched "Smallville" on Netflix the other day. Dude, it was ten seasons of filler before he finally flew! Major Surf Dracula Syndrome!
Finding your way back to the truth by fixing on one verified fact and working out from there, the way you navigate by the North Star when everything around you is spinning.
Rumours were flyingeverywhere, so she went northstarring — one checked fact at a time.
A plate of brown consists of foods that have little to no nutritional value, and are typically deep fried. A true plate of brown will also be accompanied by a dark soda.