"Feeling" the effects of drug inebriation through proximity rather than through actual ingestion.
In other words, feeling high because people nearby are high, despite not actually having taken any drugs.
"I wish I hadn't said that out lout to everyone at the party, but I wasn't in my right mind."
"Were you high?"
"Not exactly, but everyone else was, so I ended up feeling a context high."
When traffic is backed up for miles on a highway, crawling along -- and then suddenly everyone returns to normal high speeds without passing an accident, stalled car, or road construction.
We spent 45 minutes bumper-to-bumper for no reason?!? It must be immaculate congestion.
The art of removing words from a sentence (or a sentence from a paragraph) to change its context completely. Used commonly in movie posters when a film critic in their review has saidsomething uncomplimentary. Also known as "false attribution" and is related closely to "quotation mining".
A movie or theatre critic may have reviewed the piece saying "The whole thing was a terrific bore, I laughed out loud at the ineptitude of the actors..."
The contextomy on the poster would then read: "Terrific! I laughed out loud!"
In a conversation, it is the act of applying a different context to a word or phrase without the conversation having actually shifted context with it, thus confusing the listener. frequent iterations of context jumping will likely result in violence directed at the jumper from the listener.
It is the act "punning" without formally telling a pun.
Person 1: The dressing is totally what makes or breaks the salad.
Person 2: I hate dressing.
Person 1: Me too, but my wife hates when I walk around naked.
Person 2: Stop fucking Context Jumping!