throttling

Describes the intentional shipping and receiving delays imposed by the online DVD rental service NetFlix to limit their customer's maximum number of DVD rentals per month.

By delaying the shipment and denying the receipt of returned DVD's, NetFlix is able to limit (throttling) users to a maximum number of DVD's per month while advertising unlimited rentals. This practice has recently come to light with both a Class Action law suit and recent a recent AP story that ran nationally.

by Rusty_R February 15, 2006

throttling

The occurrence caused by the rhythm of lovemaking whereupon one partner’s head is repeatedly struck against a wall, headboard, or other fixed object.

His head beat a staccato pattern against the wall as she, approaching climax, rode him harder and deferred her worry that the throttling was causing a severe concussion.

by hergaster January 13, 2017

throttling

The practice by online DVD rental companies of treating customers who pay the same price for the same service differently, depending on their rental patterns.

"Manuel rents so many anime titles that they're throttling him."

by Crackity Jones Jr. February 15, 2006

throttling

The act of forcefully inserting a rather large, blunt, and innapropriate object into ones anus, such as a foot, or a fist, or a cow.

I met a boy named sterling once, and he told me his name was such because his dad was in the navy. Without a second thought I gave him a hearty throttling.

by Vissago December 27, 2002

throttling

When you are smoking down on an electronic cigarette or Dab pen (E-spliff), a combination of both is known as an (E-chop, E-pop, E-moke, and Mechanical spliff). Commonly found across high school bathrooms in Canada.

Dude one: Dude is that a E-moke?
Dude two: Yes, Its a major and a gimo, do you wanna smoke down on it??
Dude one: Im throttling so hard just now.
Dude two: Im tweaking.

by scrotomman March 31, 2022

Throttling the bishop

To masterbate so vigorously that it resembles shaking a member of the clergy in a most violent manner

I've been really pushing my luck recently, you can only throttle your bishop so much before someone calls the cops Throttling the bishop

by Uncleboozer August 22, 2019

productivity throttling controls

Security devices and configurations which inhibit or minimize employee productivity. Employee productivity may be impacted by limiting access to information, communication and computing functionality, as well as by limiting computing performance. Controls may block websites, may block communication channels such as IRC, may slow computing devices by using full-disk encryption, antivirus, and spyware, may break applications by performing man-in-the-middle attacks and by misconfiguring applications. For some employees, substantial effort may be expended to find workarounds to bypass controls.

Brenda: Why won’t IE open this site?
Tim: The productivity throttling controls are misconfigured to arbitrarily disable TLS connections in IE. Go into Tools and enable TLS connections.

The productivity throttling controls won’t allow Firefox to get a critical update that addresses a vulnerability. Now I need to download the update and manually install. What a waste of time.

My workstation is churning away because of having to scan the large email attachment that I received. Because of the productivity throttling controls, I am unable to even switch tabs in my web browser.

Bill: Websense is prohibiting me from downloading a library I need to complete this work.
Me: We’ll let customer wait another day for the deliverable while I bypass the productivity throttling controls by downloading the library at home tonight and supplying to you on a USB tomorrow.

by sutch December 9, 2010