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Greek Deadline 

A hard deadline which absolutely, positively, must be met or the world will end. Or not. Whatever.
"In other news, another Greek deadline for resolving their fiscal crisis has come and gone. Finance ministers are now saying that the REAL deadline for resolving this crisis is in two weeks."
Greek Deadline by GG top March 16, 2012

Deadline 

A line drawn within or around a prison that a prisoner passes at the risk of being shot.
114563: Don't cross the deadline man. Warden Hanson will shoot you down.
483190: I have to escape. I can't stay in this hellhole any longer!
Deadline by Order 65 July 3, 2017

Deadlinejunkie 

A deadlinejunkie is a person who can only function, or make progres when the deadline is close.
this mostly contains weeks of pushing work in front and then a couple of nights long hard work, while being stressed out about it.
"Yeah, she will not start till the last minute, she's a deadlinejunkie
Deadlinejunkie by Mord-sith January 12, 2011

artificial deadline 

A random deadline to complete a task, which has no real world consequences. For example, your office sets Monday as the deadline on all canned food donations for charity , but the box just sits there until Friday, which is the actual day they planned on taking it to the food bank.
"Hey bro, did you get your weekly report done for the big boss? He needs it today!"

"Naaah, it's only Wednesday. Wednesday's an artificial deadline, because he doesn't even send those reports to corporate for another week."
artificial deadline by Mr. Bill III October 15, 2016

deadline 

Noun, Temporal:

Designates the approximate point in time at which work begins in earnest; employee motivation is frequently observed to be "dead" before the deadline draws near.
"Christ, it's the nearly deadline already?! Hey Pete, put down the controller my friend - it's time that we looked at these shuttle schematics."
deadline by Joshua B. Wright April 5, 2004
To Be Stripped Of Ones Admin Abilites.Taken By Force By An Evil Being Such As One Named MvH.
Virus&D-0-A From EC were Deadmined.
Deadmined by CounterCulture October 22, 2008
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When your wife’s boyfriend let you sleep past 8pm 😎😎
Wife’s boyfriend: You have 5 more minutes
Me: Poggers!
Poggers by Just_Charles April 14, 2020
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Oblication 

A vacation, feeling more like an obligation, that involves visiting or staying with family.
So Joe where are you taking the kids for spring break vacation? We are going on an oblication to Boca to visit my mother-in-law.
Oblication by kimmerr May 5, 2011
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Surf Dracula Syndrome 

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!
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Northstarring

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.
Northstarring by Light Bearer October 22, 2026
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