Although other creatures, including humans, do this, cats give the best demonstration of this phenomenon. When you see a cat stretch itself to its full length, all four limbs and tail extended, accompanied by a huge yawn, that is pandiculating.
“Susie was pandiculating in the office earlier, fell off her chair and ended up with her skirt up round her ears.”
“Interesting, sorry I missed it.”
This is what happens when you wake up in the morning and stretch. As you stretch, your muscles might go rigid for a short time, which can sometimes be uncomfortable. It also describes that wonderful, or terrible, combination of being extremely sleepy, stretching and yawning at the same time.
Person 1: *Yawns and stretches at the same time*
Person 2: You know what you're doing?
Person 1: Yawning and stretching?
Person 2: Wrong Person 1: So... what then?
Person 2: Is called pandiculation
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.
"Base we've got some square groupers floating outside of Miami harbor."