When a group of government agents (i.e. FBI, DEA, ATF, etc.) are enacting a search warrant on a premises. So named because of the large amount of agents that wear trenchcoats as part of their attire. Term used more often in colder regions of the country. Can also apply to municipal law enforcement detectives as well.
"Did you see the trenchcoat convention at the meth lab down the street? Looks like they finally busted those guys."
A loosely aligned group of misfits at Columbine High School in the time of the Columbine Shootings. Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold were members of the Threnchcoat Mafia. Harris and Klebold had advocated 'killing jocks' but ended up doing something wrong instead. 'Trenchcoat Mafia' now indicates any similar group of losers with a patina of simmering menace.
My former academic excellence went into a tailspin in my senior year. I lapsed from all good society and fell in with the school's trenchcoat mafia. We cut class en masse and hung out in the library learning boot code and posing as text lesbians in chat rooms.
A clichéd character in a story, movie, anime, or whatever who wears a black trenchcoat and has long hair of any color. Trenchcoaters always are mysterious loners and have no pasts. Their names comprise of either some "badass" name like Deathbringer, some gibberish, Japanese sounding name like Kajimaru (usually there is "maru" at the end), or both. They almost always carry katanas and have mastered them all through their 15-17 years of living and often carry machineguns or other heavy weaponry. Usually they are very uninteresting and stupid.
12 year old kid: The main character of my story "CRIMSON TIDES OF DEATH!!1" is a mysterious loner with no past named Vincent who carries a katana, a nuke, and a machinegun! IM GONNA TRY AND GET TIHS PUBLISHD
Other person: Your character is a trenchcoater. I can already tell your story's gonna suck.
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!
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 flyingeverywhere, so she went northstarring — one checked fact at a time.
A plate of brown consists of foods that have little to no nutritional value, and are typically deep fried. A true plate of brownwill also be accompanied by a dark soda.
When finance content creators rent out fancy cars and flexcash to seem richer than they really are in order to promote and sell their “get rich quick” courses.