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chaining 

Following related links on websites like Wikipedia or YouTube until you end up on something completely unrelated to what you were initially looking for.

As a verb: to chain
"I went to look up the Columbia shuttle disaster but after an hour of chaining I somehow ended up on Elizabeth Bathory."

John: Did you get that report done?
Steve: Nope, I wasted the whole night chaining on Wikipedia.
chaining by Xeno_the_Blind April 18, 2008
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chaining 

Following related links on websites like Wikipedia or YouTube after you look something up until you end up on something completely unrelated to what you were initially looking for.

As a verb: to chain
"I went to look up the Columbia shuttle disaster but after an hour of chaining I somehow ended up on Elizabeth Bathory."

John: Did you get that report done?
Steve: Nope, I wasted the whole night chaining on Wikipedia.
chaining by Xeno the Blind April 19, 2008

Chaining 

A verb describing the action of a group of engineers sitting in a row, the first student actively completing an assignment, acting as the "base link", while the others copy one by one, from the student immediately to their left.

The base link is rotated from class to class, thus the responsibility is shared.
The activity not only builds trust and facilitates bonding within the chain group, but maximizes laziness and opens free time for drinking related activities.

Teaching assistants rarely catch on during marking, as each assignment is slightly different, similar to the changing whispered message in the children's game of telephone.

Occasionally, the later students in the chain will receive a better grade than the earlier students, or even the base link of the chain, a phenomenon yet to be fully understood.
Engineer 1: "Wow, that concrete assignment was so terrible, how did you solve question 4?"
Engineer 2: "I don't know, we chained it"
Engineer 1: "You are only hurting yourself by chaining..."
Chaining by enginerd1986 April 7, 2012

chaining 

The process of a sneaky link becoming unfaithful. As when a person has more than one link they create a chain.
I’m so sad, I think he’s chaining.
chaining by Queen Anastasia April 15, 2024

Chaining Advice 

The act of asking two or more friends for advice regarding an issue with an obvious solution. Suggestions are often unanimous from all parties.
May decided chaining advice would be the best way to solve her boy problem.

Dick Chaining 

To go from one dick to another, like chain smoking.
"OMG Sarah was so dick chaining last night"
Dick Chaining by Zoayeeeee Hopper February 5, 2009

daisy chaining 

When large numbers of people engage in oral sex in alternating face up/face down positions forming a circular group of people. An individual engaged in daisy chaining will be giving oral sex to one person while receiving oral pleasure from a different person (at the same time). Probably referring to a ring of intertwined bosies having a similar shape and arrangement to a flower arrangement used as a tiara.
"We had, like, 20 people in our daisy chain last night."
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