cast-attrition thriller 

A film sub-genre in which the characters are picked off one by one, often by a masked killer or malignant force. Salient examples: Friday the 13th (Jason); Final Destination (Death); Sunshine (the Sun).

Coined by Tasha Robinson of the AV Club to describe Danny Boyle's film "Sunshine"(2007).

Originating quote, from the review of "Sunshine"(2007) -
In many ways, Sunshine is a been-there-done-that cast-attrition thriller: Alien with an exterior monster instead of an interior one, Event Horizon with better effects and less gore, Pitch Black with the contrast turned way up. The cast members make wry jokes about getting eliminated one at a time, horror-movie style, but they still follow all the horror-movie procedures, even duly splitting up in a dangerous, unknown situation. It's like they've gracefully accepted that they're just hitting a series of predestined, genre-mandated marks. - Tasha Robinson, Onion A.V. Club

cast-attrition thriller by PhD (Pretentious hipster Douchebag) September 4, 2007

Actrites 

Acting right around others; Behaving good in public;Good Behavior;Having Manners;Preforming good deeds;Performance, Positive Actions;Conduct yourself right around in public

(*lil kids behaving bad) You kids better behave yourself, before i slap you upside your head with some actrite.

Boy didn't i tell you not to do that.....(SMACK!)don't make me lay sum moe actrites up on your dumbass.

(*opening the door for a lady)Hey thanks for opening the door for me,good to see someone with some actrites.

Actrites by Bee Ramanand March 5, 2008

attrition

The act of wearing something down over time

armies depending on superior numbers to defeat a smaller armys fight wars of attrition

attrition by Rich November 19, 2003

War of Attrition

A war in which forces do not confront each other in direct combat with the full strength of their teams, but instead aim to wear each other down over a period of time using tactics such as guerilla warfare, sabotage and other dishonourable means of combat.

The war is a war which will not necessarily be won by superior skill but by patience and skillful resource management.

Person 1: How did you lose all your poker chips you had 3/4 of the entire box?
Person 2: It degenerated into a war of attrition

Person 1: But you had the advantage so how did you lose?
Person 2: Patience is a virtue, the enemy was virtuous.

War of Attrition by Super_Dash August 12, 2010

Attritional Beauty 

When at a party, the less pretty people become more attractive due to the departure and rapid pairing off of the more attractive people.

When 2am rolls around and the fat girls are looking tastey, it's because of attritional beauty. Similar to beer-goggles.

Attritional Beauty by Torklugnutz June 3, 2004

attrit

The verb form of attrition. When someone leaves a group or company, he will "attrit" from that group.

We can't fire that group of managers even though they're dead weight. We just have to wait for them to attrit.

attrit by mattybikes November 21, 2011

Call of Attrition 

When a mobile phone call drops out, the ensuing attempts to call each other back on both sides results in endless straight-to-voicemail calls, engaged signals, more dropouts... it's just useless.

Adapted from the term "war of attrition", in which both forces wear each other down over a long period of time, resulting in little success for either.

Nick just dropped out; I'm trying to get ahold of him for the fourth time, but it's just a call of attrition at the moment.

Call of Attrition by Wahooski November 18, 2010