In many MMORPG games, the term "Surgical" usually means someone is acting both cocky and n00bish, which means that the surgical person thinks they are very great, when they are a complete idiot. This originated from a player on World of Warcraft by the name of Surgical who acted this way. People often made fun of him, but Surgical would lash back in anger or mistake the insults as flattery. Insulting him soon spread to a server-wide joke, and later gained popularity elsewhere. The server this originally took place at was "Black Dragonflight"

Wow, this n00b is so surgical. Hehe, what a useless n00b.

Surgical by Stonecosta June 28, 2006

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surgical tech

The one person who makes surgery possible. Strong, independent, reliable, motivated, determined, hard working, 100% Bad-Ass.

...What do you for a living?
I’m a Surgical Tech
...man, that’s Bad-Ass bro

surgical tech by That’s right May 27, 2018

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surgical strike

When you’ve got to get in there and remove a possibly life-threatening wedgie before it spreads. In-and-out. Precise. Non-evasive. Take a little time to recover, and you’ll be good-as-new in no time.

Ralph’s Surgical Strike to his lumpy cotton briefs was deep, but precise; the only scarring it left was on the memories of those who witnessed.

surgical strike by Tommy_John December 3, 2015

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Surgical summer

Time to make things right or make everything clear

It is about to be a surgical summer.

Surgical summer by @Fisho_na July 3, 2018

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Oblication

A vacation, feeling more like an obligation, that involves visiting or staying with family.

So Joe where are you taking the kids for spring break vacation? We are going on an oblication to Boca to visit my mother-in-law.

Oblication by kimmerr May 5, 2011

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Surf Dracula Syndrome

A phenomenon in film/television series, most notably streaming series, where the main premise is drawn out to such a point that it takes an entire season or more to get the parts of the series the audience is actually interested in seeing.

For example, if a series is titled "Surf Dracula," a majority of viewers would tune in expecting to see Dracula surfing by the first or second episode. However, the entire first season would instead be tedious padding and backstory before finally ending with Dracula surfing in the last five minutes of the season finale.

I watched "Smallville" on Netflix the other day. Dude, it was ten seasons of filler before he finally flew! Major Surf Dracula Syndrome!

Surf Dracula Syndrome by AOmundson June 18, 2023

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Northstarring

Finding your way back to the truth by fixing on one verified fact and working out from there, the way you navigate by the North Star when everything around you is spinning.

Rumours were flying everywhere, so she went northstarring — one checked fact at a time.

Northstarring by Light Bearer October 22, 2026

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