Something that occurs and is later ignored and/or later negated by the general population and is considered to "never have happened." This is usually in reference to a specific movie or game within a franchise, but can sometimes refer to an event or relationship.
refusal, denial
Example 1
Tom: Have you seen the new Terminator series?
Bill: Yeah, it totally negates the third movie, giving it the Highlander 2 Effect. But I can live with that.
Tom: They made a third movie?
Example 2
John: You and Karen were pretty drunk last night. I knew you were friends, but I wasn't expecting the two of you to go home together.
Brad: I already called and talked to her. We agreed that last night is coming under the Highlander 2 Effect, so we can stay friends without all the weirdness.
John: It's cool. Then as far as I'm concerned, you just crashed on the couch.
When you're fucking someone in a field and just as they get off you throw them onto an electrical fence and scream "There can be only one!" Also works by throwing an electrified appliance into the bathtub or shower during climax.
Hot girl with big tits: "Oh my God Travis I'm gonna fucking cum! What the...?"
*shoved into electrical fence, zapped to high hell via The Highlander method*
Travis: "THERE CAN BE ONLY ONE!" *sings Queen's Highlander Theme*
After having sexual intercourse with a woman, when the man forgets to pull out and accidently ejaculates inside the woman and the woman becomes very upset, the man will say to the woman, "Dont worry, for I am the Highlander". Since the highlander can't get women pregnant this is a good way to shut the said woman up. If the woman is unconvinced the man can then grab a fork and shove it in a electrical socket and while being electrocuted he can scream 'THERE CAN ONLY BE ONE!"
Hey man, I forgot to pullout of my girlfriend last night but it's alright 'cuz I used "The Highlander" trick.
Misnomer for Virginia-Highland neighborhood of Atlanta, commonly used by fratboys, housefraus, OTP fucks, and transplants. Occassionally used by a particularly idoitic Virginia-Highland resident.
Dumbass: "Let's go to the Highlands for beers!"
Me: "Let me know where you'll be so I can tell the bartender to poison your drink."
1) The fictional character Duncan MacLeod in the TV series "The Highlander"
2) To seriously rough up your sex partner during sex.. to the point where they could be near death, but then they "come back to life".
Dave was fucking his girlfriend and decided to pull the highlander. So he started slapping her ass.. then pulling her hair.. then he started throwing haymakers into her ribcage.. then he pounded the back of her skull with his fist until she went into a coma.
9 weeks later SHE recovered from the coma, successfully completing the highlander Dave was going for.
The two are still together, as they were avid highlander fans and she's a freaky girl when it comes to sex.
The measure of an emotional and over zealous consumer in an upwardly charging market, also known as a bull market. It's characterized by rising asset prices, increased investor confidence, and favorable growth in the markets, bro.
The frothability was evident as over-zealous consumers eagerly engaged in bidding wars, drivingproperty prices to unsustainable levels reminiscent of previous speculative bubbles.
A man who dates women with the sole purpose of exploiting their time, energy, and labor while he sucks the joy and happiness from their lives.
"That guy's a soul digger. He'll expect you to work full time, but you'll be doing all the cooking, cleaning, laundry, shopping, and childcare while he plays video games or watches TV."
A person pretending to be something they aren't, or an impostor. This is inferred because of the old alien movies where alien pods appear on earth and the "pod people" dispose of the humans and slowly reproduce the bodies, pretending to be humans.
The pod person was pretending to be my father, but I knew that he was an alien when he acted differently than my father ever would have.
A dead drop is a location used to secretly pass items between two people, without requiring them to meet.
Spies have been known to use dead drops, using various techniques to hide the items and to signal that the drop has been made. Drug dealers use this as well.
A common place is to duct tape the item to the underside of a toilet cover in a public restroom.
A signal is sometimes used as well to indicate there is something to pickup, like a pile of stones in a certain formation. After checking the drop the signal is removed.
"The dead drop is the restroom toilet at the Gulf station at the corner of Commercial Ave. and Georges Rd."
A "No Surprises Wedding," or NSW, is a wedding invitation designation that tells attendees that there can be no unplanned announcements, engagements, events or speeches at the wedding - all actions must be pre-approved by the couple. Anyone who performs an unapproved "surprise" will be asked to leave the wedding early.
This designation comes from Reddit, where so many stories of bad wedding behavior indicated a need to communicate expectations for the wedding behavior of attendees.
You are cordially invited to the nuptials of Brian and Tom on October 31 at noon.
Please note that this wedding is child-free (under 10) and a No Surprises Wedding (NSW). Reach out to wedding planner Sami Smith to request approvals or exceptions; please note that exceptions will be rare. Limited child care for under-10s will be available. All approvals will be noted and included in planning. Unapproved, or surprise exceptions, will result in guests being asked to leave.