To be stephen’d is to have met a guy who says one thing then acts another. Gets you to fall in love with him by saying all the right things. Then ghosts you after several months of spending copious amounts of time With you.
Girl: I love him but he won’t talk to me anymore
Friend: girl You got stephen’d
1. James Joyce's evil creation. In Ulysses, we enter the mind of Stephen and wonder "Why the fuck does he think about Shakespeare and Greek art so goddam much?"
2. Any literary snob.
1. In "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man", James Joyce wrote about Stephen Dedalus, a bohemian floundering to find his place in society.
2. My college English professor is such a Stephen Dedalus. Today, he explained how exciting and enthralling Moby Dick is.