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a condition or situation,especially a sad or dangerous one
plight by Anonymous September 22, 2003
Slang term for Bud Light Platinum. Where Bud Light is Blight, something that causes harm or damage, Plight leads to a dangerous, difficult or otherwise unfortunate situation.
I drank a twelve pack of Plight and woke up on the bathroom floor of a Denny's in a pool my own urine.
Plight by Woody LaJonze February 5, 2014

Blight-or-Plight Response 

This is a response to the dilemma of having to choose between Bud Light or Blight, and Bud Light Platinum or Plight. Like the fight-or-flight response, the blight-or-plight response is a physiologic reaction to a perceived harmful event, attack, or threat to survival. After the initial shock due to a systematic increase in adrenaline, the response results in disgust and rejection of either beer option.
When I first walked into the liquor store I had a wicked blight-or-plight response until I realized the microbrews were hidden all the way in the back.

love at first plight 

When you are forced to interact with someone due to some unexpected blunder or tragedy (e.g. a car accident) and end up as romantic partners with that person.
Mr. and Mrs. Davis always joke about how they met when his car ran over her mailbox, their love at first plight scenario

Brian's Plight 

Brian's Plight: When a person lowers themselves to extreme desperate measures, simply to sound "in the right," usually resulting in non-sensical jibber jabber.
Person A: "Lately, Person B has been acting up lately. He must have Parkisons disease"
Person B "That makes no fucking sense - That sounds like Brian's Plight!"
Brian's Plight by Jackie643 December 7, 2006
A woman who is struggling to keep afloat in her arranged marriage with an older man. Her only outlet in reaching LOW KEY attention is through the constant changing of her WhatsApp profile photo - in the hope of miraculously being noticed and rescued by a new suitor.
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