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Porpoising

The up-and-down oscillation of a 2022-era Formula One car at speed, which vaguely resembles the kicking motion of a porpoise. This is due to ground-effects sucking the car to the track to the point of it bottoming-out. The sudden loss of underfloor downforce results in the car the car springing back upwards and the process repeating itself several times per second.
Mercedes' W13 car performance is plagued by porpoising down the straights.
Porpoising by OldiebutBaddie April 27, 2022

porpoising walrus 

A suspiciously inept simile (or metaphor)
The original: "Closer inspection revealed that the rest of the body was encased in 2-3 feet of ice, the body prostrate, suspended into the ice like a porpoising walrus." -- Charlie LeDuff, Detroit News, 28 January 2009

Laurel Fortuner, 1992 Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest winner: ". . . her creamy bosom rising and falling like a temperamental souffle . . ."

Excellent porpoising walrus, Ms. Fortuner!
porpoising walrus by jedyca January 29, 2009
A potentialy awkward moment where a guy (generally) gets on one knee, pulls out a ring, and says, "Will you marry me!?" Then he waits desperatly for an Answer!
Woah! That guy is totally proposing to that girl in the middle of the freeway during rush hour traffic!!!!
proposing by Benchamin February 4, 2014

pornposing 

to pornpose: the act of delaying one's business by watching porn movies.
- Damn I was supposed to send those 3 applications today...
- How come you didn't?
- I thought I'd first check out for any new vids on bookkake*.
- You do that all the time. You should stop pornposing your work.

*fetish site for paper lovers
pornposing by lessloud June 14, 2010
overheard conversation in sleazy bar bathroom: Look, he's proposing!
Proposing by xglaukopisx June 29, 2019

Porpoisism 

Hating the TPP and saying the patriots are better than Dolphins.
HEY! STOP! YOU ARE COMMITTING PORPOISISM!
Porpoisism by anonymous June 19, 2023