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intimidation plateau

A term used in certain sports that involve intimidation. When you have 2 intimidating people, you don't put them one right after the other. That would be a mountain. If you spread out the intimidating people, you make a plateau. This is to ensure that throughout the whole game there will always be an intimidating person to come.
Big Intimidating Guy 1: Are you going to bat after me in this inning?
Big Intimidating Guy 2: No, we need an intimidation plateau.
Big Intimidating Guy 1: A what?
Big Intimidating Guy 2: An intimidation plateau.
Big Intimidating Guy 1: Ok.
intimidation plateau by MarrBond November 9, 2006

intimidation plateau

A term used in certain sports that involve intimidation. When you have 2 intimidating people, you don't put them one right after the other. That would be a mountain. If you spread out the intimidating people, you make a plateau. This is to ensure that throughout the whole game there will always be an intimidating person to come.
Big Intimidating Guy 1: Are you going to bat after me in this inning?
Big Intimidating Guy 2: No, we need an intimidation plateau.
Big Intimidating Guy 1: A what?
Big Intimidating Guy 2: An intimidation plateau.
Big Intimidating Guy 1: Ok.
intimidation plateau by MarrBond November 9, 2006

intimidation chain 

Frogs are at the top of the intimidation chain because they scare everyone.
intimidation chain by Gornon17 April 8, 2019

Intimidation of Bams 

A large group of Bams is called an 'intimidation'.

The likely origin of this term is believed to come from the anti-social behaviour of bams and the general anxiety and fear a large group of bams can provoke when gathering in numbers.
Hold up, big man! Dinnae cross th' street! There's a massive intimidation of bams 'roon that bus stop!

Intimidation Factor 

- something done to deliberately instill fear in someone
-an intimidation tactic
-something about an individual/group that is intimidating to others
our team captain is big and strong- he's the teams greatest intimidation factor

voter intimidation 

When you go to vote and a hate group like Black Panthers is standing outside the door with military year on.
Philadelphia had several cases of voter intimidation during the 2012 presidential election. There were also suspicions of voter fraud since every single vote cast in the city was for Obama.