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Gloomping refers to traveling with a group of friends in the middle of the night in vehicles and following random strangers in their cars in order to scare them as a prank. No harm is ever intended whilst gloomping. Gloomping can take place in many forms. The key to a successful gloomping session is the setup. Some examples of a good setup might be:

Parking your car on the side of the road with the lights off and waiting for oncoming traffic. Once said traffic passes you, flip on the headlights and pull a U-Turn. They would have thought the car was off and parked, and the sudden U-Turn is bound to scare the shit out of them. Proceed to follow them, or let them go, your choice.

If gloomping with more than two vehicles, it is best to have something like a walkie talkie. You can pull the same setup as before, or a setup with slight variations. Have the first car pull the initial setup, and then have another car flip the lights on down the street when the car gets closer. This will scare the shit out of the driver to know they're outnumbered.

Gloomping is most effective when done in a dark, neighborhood setting.

Safety should always be key when gloomping. Never push the joke too far, and never put yourself or the person you are gloomping in danger. Never follow a driver into their driveway, or into an alley, you never know if they could step out of their car with a weapon. If a driver seems suspicious, back off. Don't do anything stupid, as gloomping is already stupid enough.
Hey dude! Wanna go gloomping tonight!?

Yooooooooo! Bro! That gloomping sesh last night was totally rad bro!

Dog... I think I just got gloomped.
Gloomping by Gloomp God June 6, 2021
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Quarantine Grooming 

Relevant during the 2020 pandemic quarantine.

When someone comes on extremely strong with early declarations of love or possibly a future relationship together. The purpose of this is to gain confidence in order to make someone comfortable enough to eventually break quarantine and have sex with them.

(Original Source: Unzippedintentions.com)
"He told me that he could totally see a future with me and see himself falling in love. I think he's Quarantine Grooming me"

Grooming 

When a sexual or other kind of predator sets the stage for abusing another, such as a child or other person (as in the case of sex and theory human trafficking).

Trust: May give toys and/or other gifts and favors to the intended victim to gain trust.

Alienation: Settings the stage for the intended victim to become alienated from their primary caregivers/circles or family and community.

Fear/dependency: Sets up a power dynamic in which the victim feels too afraid to report the abuse, perhaps by involving the victim in activities their friends and family might judge the victim negatively for, such as drug use (or even the abuse itself).
By the time the girl understood how bad her situation had become the neighbor had been grooming her so carefuly and for so long that she felt she could not go home or to the police and so saw no way out of her situation. Thankfully a relative noticed her distress and had the sense to seek help from the county's intervention program.
Grooming by evilelove April 1, 2017

gooping n' gunking 

doing great, it means you're doing well and having a good time
charlie: im gooping n' gunking !
william: SAME BRO, IM GOOPING N' GUNKING

Grooming 

Training, preparing or conditioning someone, usually over a longer period of time. Also used to refer to a paedophile's process of building trust with a child, wearing down the child's boundaries.
"The tutor we hired was a good investment; he's grooming my son for a prestigious college."
"Paul gives our daughter a lot of gifts and attention, I'm worried he might be grooming her. Do you think i should call the police?"
Grooming by AnAbundancyOfLemons February 18, 2017

low art gloominati 

LOW ART as a synonym for "Degenerate" Art, which is purposefully evoked as an empowerment to expressionism; by demonizing oneself beforehand, it leaves little rest for any one possessing critical and belittling eyes to condemn. Which is also in itself a belittlement towards this belittlement of progressive art; to empower it through its evocation. And 'GLOOMINATI' as a play on the words, the prefix gloom juxtaposed with Illuminati to insinuate Marilyn Manson as a dark, overly sinister misery spreading entity, which again is done so sarcastically as they bring nothing but joy to myself and anyone else who gets "it".
we are the low art gloominaties and we aim to depress
low art gloominati by julez roxx January 23, 2008

gloomingly 

The adverbification of "gloomy". Often used by misplaced sun worshipers and online dating professionals posing as innocent newcomers.
I just got back to this gloomingly wet city last night from a biz trip.
gloomingly by MrTheNow December 1, 2013
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