When, under favorable conditions (often among groups of highly competitive, charismatic, and self-centered people), a violent hurricane of interpersonal drama forms, sucking all concerned parties into an ever-expanding spiral of senseless rumor, conjecture, happenstance, and confusion. Those sucked in worsen the conditions of the dramacane in their attempts to find blame, or fault, or reason by trying to get to the so-called "heart of the matter". But from the "eye of storm" it becomes clear that there isn't one.
All parties are complicit, and no one person is to blame.
Paul won't be at workMonday; he got pulled into one of his family's dramacanes over the weekend and has yet to make it out alive.
Don't answer that call. The dramacane at work has grown to five or six people, at least. Cut communication if you don't want to be next.
Did you ever watch that show The Real World? It's like a perpetual dramacane.
Dedicated to the data community; it's a play on words of data + dedicated = datacated. The term was firstcoined by Kate Strachnyi on LinkedIn and is now a part of the UPTO trademark registration (owned by Story by Data)
A word whose context can be used in multiple situations. Commonly used among teens with no better adjective to describe an uncomfortable situation. Also commonly used when girls (normally with too much time on their hands and nothing better to do)create drama for the fun of backstabbing their so called best friends. This is often called "baking dramacakes"
"That stupid girl just keeps baking dramacakes. Last night, she called everyone and told them that her best friend was pregnant. Today, she told me it was just a false alarm."
"When we were at the mall, all these kids started pushing each other and since we didn't know what to do, Sarah just screamed, STOP THE DRAMACAKES! and surprisingly, they stopped.