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This is your friend with benefits. Who you totally want to be your boyfriend. Who treats you like his girlfriend… Until someone he actually wants to date comes along. Then he puts you back on the shelf. Then, when they break up, he texts you to see what’s up and the cycle starts all over, until he puts you back on the shelf again. And all the while, he never deletes Tinder from his phone! LESSON: Do you really want to be someone’s place holder? Life isn’t a Hollywood rom com; he doesn’t realize he’s in love with you in Act III — this is a never-ending miniseries of him treating you like a security blanket.
I'm not going to fuck him anymore, now I know he's just a shelfer.
Shelfer by didivine September 6, 2014
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When you’re a 30+ year old women who hasn’t been married yet or not in a relationship. She’s what’s left on the “shelf”
Oh you set your tinder to 30+?

Yeah, all the left over Shelfers are there
Shelfer by youfoundmeonreddit April 3, 2022
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top shelfer 

Dropping a crap in the toilet tank (instead of the bowl).
JJ got so drunk he laid a top shelfer at Angelina's party.
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Top Shelfer 

When you take a dump on top of the toilet tank lid.
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shelmerdine

when a woman is walking away from consumation with a slight limp or a sore ass she has officially been 'shelmerdine'd'
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a child who is overly protected from the outside world, impacting their judgmental, social, and economic skills. this usually happens because of a parent, guardian, or adult figure in the child's life.
child: i can't go out tonight, my parents won't let me because it's too dangerous.
friend: dude it's not dangerous it's literally a block away from here. you're such a sheltered child.
sheltered child by okjada July 9, 2021

Cream shelter 

A small enviroment where a male ejaculates
Omg he went to the cream shelter
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