Situation where someone treats someone one way, usually negatively, and then at a later point in time regrets what was done to that other person in the past or begins to treat the same person in a more respectful manner. Identified in the 1988 Biz Markie song "Vapors."
Girls dissed you because you were broke. Now that you blew-up and have money, the same girls want to get with you. These women have caught the vapors.
Guy breaks up with his girlfriend. Later on realizes that she was all he ever wanted and that breaking up with her was a mistake. Now he wants her back. He's got the vapors.
Guy breaks up with his girlfriend. Later on realizes that she was all he ever wanted and that breaking up with her was a mistake. Now he wants her back. He's got the vapors.
by DreJD May 1, 2006
Get the vapors mug.An ailment causing real or imagined nausea, fainting, or dizziness on the part of Victorian women or women of similar delicate sensitivity. The cause is something seen or heard which so offends their modesty, there is no response they are capable of uttering. Typically a matter of sexual or cultural taboo is being violated, such as the mention of a sexual or excretory organ in conversation.
1. When Larry Summers claimed that men may have a greater innate ability in math than women, MIT biologist Nancy Hopkins had the vapors. In her own words she later explained "if I hadn't left, I would've either blacked out or thrown up."
2. The reaction of characters played by Margaret Dumont in the films of the Marx Brothers to something shocking.
2. The reaction of characters played by Margaret Dumont in the films of the Marx Brothers to something shocking.
by patsw May 16, 2009
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Taking a newfangled and opportunistic liking to someone only after that person became successful. The subject of Biz Markie's song, "Vapors."
She wouldn't even talk to me in high school, and now she's sitting on my lap in my Cadillac. She caught the vapors.
by Makaveli65 September 26, 2010
Get the Vapors mug.Mainly used in the south. Describes a dizzying condition where the victim will actually see vapors in the air they breathe. Onset by hot and humid weather, think of really thick and soupy weather. Usually fanning or air conditioning will cure it.
by Shiftinator December 31, 2008
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1. Any of various diseases, including chancroid, chlamydia, gonorrhea, and syphilis, that are usually contracted through sexual intercourse or other intimate sexual contact. see STD.
2. A stinky bagina. A girl with the vapors typically is sexually promiscuous, consequently her vagina does not have time to air out and freshen up.
1. Any of various diseases, including chancroid, chlamydia, gonorrhea, and syphilis, that are usually contracted through sexual intercourse or other intimate sexual contact. see STD.
2. A stinky bagina. A girl with the vapors typically is sexually promiscuous, consequently her vagina does not have time to air out and freshen up.
by A Guy Named Gal April 8, 2005
Get the vapors mug.N: a disease that is contracted when one goes to college. This term explains many misunderstood illnesses of college students. The Vapors molecules reside in the dirty run-down dorms on (the worst part of) campus.
Jennie and Brittany went to West Hall with Josh; a week later they discovered their coughing was a sever case of the vapors.
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