A movie or television show character who is completely expendable and whose only purpose on the show is to die. The character's death is usually used to demonstrate the gravity of the situation that the main characters will shortly find themselves in. See also redshirt; the two terms are synonymous, but this term is more commonly used within the entertainment industry as an inside joke.
"I'm just "Crewman Number Six." I'm expendable. I'm the guy in the episode who dies to prove how serious the situation is. I've gotta get outta here." - Sam Rockwell as "Guy Fleegman" in "Galaxy Quest" (1999)
Noun: a meaningful friendship or relationship developed during the Coronavirus COVID-19 Pandemic.
A friendship that may be based on chat or zoom, or caused by forced isolation together.
Often the sort of friendship which helps people see the best in the world during a dark time. A friendship that helps you see the best in you, and let’s you see the best in them. A friendship that you know will last forever.... probably like f***ing COVID-19.
Verb: The act of wooing or building a close bond during Coronavirus lockdown.
Cromantic. Adjective, conducive to or alluding to a coronavirus based friendship.
“Hey dude, you chatting to that chic?”
“Yeh man, we got a little cromance going on.”
During quarantine, Sarah moved in with her boyfriend. They had a whirlwind cromance.
“Hey you wanna Zoom date tonight babe, time for some cromance?”
“Oh, babe, you’re so cromantic”
While our lifespan is the number of years we will live, our healthspan is the number of healthy years we will have and our sexspan is is the number of years we will continue to be healthy enough to continue having an active sex life.
A lighthearted reaction upon receiving disappointing news of some sort. Usually something that isn't a particularly a big deal, esp. when it primarily affects someone else - sort of a mild schadenfreude. Sometimes doubled or tripled, and possibly said in a sing-songy voice for added comedic effect to imitate a muted trumpet, which is how the meme originated.
You didn't get any napkins with your takeout pork fried rice? Womp womp.
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 flying everywhere, so she went northstarring — one checked fact at a time.