The sensation a person experiences upon realizing that they are surrounded by hipsters and may have become one them self. Generally this takes place in a setting which would, according to stereotype, be thought of as a popular place for hipsters to congregate. May be accompanied by visual and auditory hallucinations of flannel patterns and and pseudo-intellectual background conversation.
Upon realizing that he was holding a PBR tallboy at a Broken Social Scene Concert, Jack began to experience waves of severe hipsteria.
Any talking head that makes a living spreading hysteria. CNN, Fox News, and the like harbor them.
Sean Hannity, Don Lemon, BillO'Riley, Wolf Blitzer, Bret Baier, Rachel Maddow, Van Jones, and so on.
The asshole hysteria merchants on Fox and CNN want to keep everybody in a state of fear with the relentless bullshit
they sell to the mindless idiots who worship them.
When fake or sensational videos are uploaded to YouTube and propelled by alarmist users into the mind of the general population, spawning urban myths, group-think, or panic.
"Dude did you hear that there is a hidden camera in your cable box watching you jerkoff?"
When the populace's fear of a snowstorm creates traffic jams and general panic way before any flakes even fall. Usually turns out to be a totally disproportionate response to a minor snowstorm.
Everyone is fleeing the office thanks to snow hysteria...but it isn't supposed to start snowing until 9 PM.
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an uncontrollable outburst of emotion or fear, often characterized by irrationality, laughter, weeping, etc
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Psychoanalysis . a psychoneurotic disorder characterized by violent emotional outbreaks, disturbances of sensory and motor functions, and various abnormal effects due to autosuggestion.
When Angelina Jolie found out that Brad Pitt cheated on her with a flight attendant, she went into a state of complete hysteria, while listening to Hysteria by Muse and went completely fuck your own ass crazy.
Nickname given to bales of marijuana thrown overboard or out of airplanes. Origin is reportedly from members of the US Coast Guard in the area of Southern Florida.
A sunburn or suntan focused on the left arm. It is caused by the left side of the body being the only half that gets exposed to sunlight while driving. Presumably, it would be located on the right side of the body in countries where they drive on the left side of the road.
I had a trucker's tan after driving for 10 straight hours on a sunny day.
British slang for a scientist or technical expert, esp . when the speaker is not certain of the expert’s specific field of study. Not necessarily derogatory, but typically used by persons without a technical background. In the US, the equivalent would be “egghead”, “squint”, or “geek.”
Origin of the word is unknown. Started sometime in World War 2. Given the typical evolution of British slang, could easily have started because what these experts did was confusing or “baffling” to the common person.