by The God of Mediocrity January 09, 2020
To be transfixed on a relatively insignificant thought or event and unhealthily or unnecessarily dwelling on it attaching a more elaborate meaning and emotion to it.
The trigger often seems trivial to others but to the person who is "spinning" it becomes connected to their personal prevailing emotions, past experiences, and/or unresolved trauma/pathology.
May include but not exclusive to:
1. imagining/playing out elaborate future scenarios, radical actions, and/or conversations;
2. questioning any past or present experiences, activities, and/or relationships;
Possible origins:
Like how a textile worker can get a seemingly small piece or bundle of fiber and "spin" it into a long thread by combining it with others.
Or how a spider can "spin" an elaborate web by connecting many threads together.
The trigger often seems trivial to others but to the person who is "spinning" it becomes connected to their personal prevailing emotions, past experiences, and/or unresolved trauma/pathology.
May include but not exclusive to:
1. imagining/playing out elaborate future scenarios, radical actions, and/or conversations;
2. questioning any past or present experiences, activities, and/or relationships;
Possible origins:
Like how a textile worker can get a seemingly small piece or bundle of fiber and "spin" it into a long thread by combining it with others.
Or how a spider can "spin" an elaborate web by connecting many threads together.
1. After hearing that someone you know insulted your character, you make an elaborate plan to confront them and you think of all the things you've done that contests what they said. In addition you question your own relationship and past experiences with that person and build them up to be an antagonist. Only to have them immediately apologize and quickly explain that it was a misunderstanding.
2. Like in the movie "He's Just Not That Into You", questioning the fairly straightforward actions of others and excusing or making them out to mean something else by constructing elaborate scenarios
3. Girl: "We hang out almost everyday but he hasn't asked me to be his girlfriend."
Friend: "Didn't he say he wasn't interested and just wanted to be friends?"
Girl: "Yeah, but I think it was just because he had a bad experience with his last girlfriend and that he didn't get to know me yet."
Friend: "He's not interested though."
Girl: "But we spend so much time together, what if he does want to have a relationship but he just doesn't know how to ask?"
Friend: "You're spinning. If he says he isn't interested then he isn't interested."
2. Like in the movie "He's Just Not That Into You", questioning the fairly straightforward actions of others and excusing or making them out to mean something else by constructing elaborate scenarios
3. Girl: "We hang out almost everyday but he hasn't asked me to be his girlfriend."
Friend: "Didn't he say he wasn't interested and just wanted to be friends?"
Girl: "Yeah, but I think it was just because he had a bad experience with his last girlfriend and that he didn't get to know me yet."
Friend: "He's not interested though."
Girl: "But we spend so much time together, what if he does want to have a relationship but he just doesn't know how to ask?"
Friend: "You're spinning. If he says he isn't interested then he isn't interested."
by onlyAlex July 07, 2009
by Djr1100 May 19, 2018
When someone is doing good at something or is in a frantic stituation and succeeding at it.
Can also describe something (as in an object) that is good, something that goes "hard".
Can also describe something (as in an object) that is good, something that goes "hard".
1)Ex. "LeBron has already scored 26 points this game, he's spinning"
"I like what she's doing right now, she's spinning"
2)Ex. "This pizza is so good, it's spinning / it spins"
"I like what she's doing right now, she's spinning"
2)Ex. "This pizza is so good, it's spinning / it spins"
by bdntcry November 12, 2022
Australian term for the tobbaco that is mixed and "chopped up" with weed before it is smoked by many young people here.
by Diego July 08, 2003
The point where you drank too much and now the room is spinning. Usually caused by drinking too much too fast or by combining alcohol with marijuana.
by Dirty Jersey December 18, 2004
Ayanda: Damn. Jamar, Jose, and Jeremiah tryna fuck with you?
Jasmine: Yeah. I’m not messing with none of them fr though
Ayanda: Yikes. You really out here spinning niggas, huh?
Jasmine: Yeah. I’m not messing with none of them fr though
Ayanda: Yikes. You really out here spinning niggas, huh?
by itsjaaassss December 02, 2018