To ask a niche question about a specific topic in a condescending or exclusionary manner with the intent of testing a person’s knowledge on a subject of interest
She asked me about what I thought about the shrink-wrapping problem when I told her I liked dinosaurs, she was totally trying to nirvana-shirt me!
Def1: Expressing you like a band either by wearing merch or listing them as a favorite band but having little to no knowledge of the band
Def2: to call out someone who is a nirvana t shirt by testing them on their knowledge
Person 1: "Oh, nice Nirvana tshirt, whats your favorite song?"
Person 2: "Smells Like Teen Spirit for sure!"
Person 1: "can you.. name any other songs?"
Person 2: "not off the top of my head"
Person 3: "see? I knew she was just a Nirvana T Shirt a$$ mf"
A word used to describe the women-take-longer-showers-than-men phenomena. It has never been proved what exactly takes them so long to complete a shower, but one can safely assume that they've discovered the enlightenment described in Buddhist philosophy, i.e. Nirvana.
Person 1: Man, what is taking her so long in the shower?
Person 2: Dude, don't worry about it, she's probably just discovered shower nirvana.
a mental state where you no longer feel guilty for not having responded to messages your co-workers have sent you on Slack. you reach this state after sheer exhaustion and burn out, typically.
I knew I was contributing so much, and I was on the verge of burn out. The fact that I attained Slack nirvana is helping me stay calm for longer.