by freshtwenty September 20, 2017
The female friend of a groom-to-be who decides to confess her love for him in a last ditch effort, at the worst possible time - right before or near the end of engagement.
Candace isn't coming to the wedding anymore; she turned out to be a groom grabber and confessed her love after she got the wedding invitation.
by NoYouDidNOT September 24, 2010
The state of paying for someone else, paying for their rent and food etc. The difference between grooming and sexual grooming is that sexual grooming often leads to more criminal offenses then possible temporary situations. Parents often are considered to groom children for instance.
by anon76889 January 15, 2021
Any use of a feeble, or implausible excuse used by someone to escape from a conversation on a mind-numbing, or uninteresting topic for the listener. Refers to someone explaining their preference to 'wash their hair', 'do their nails' or some other such excuse, which would be an otherwise less desirable chore than having to suffer through listening to such a boring conversation.
These excuses were popular in sit-coms, where the lead actor wanted to extract laughter from the audience with the punchline illustrating the implausibility of the excuse being believed by the recipient.
These excuses were popular in sit-coms, where the lead actor wanted to extract laughter from the audience with the punchline illustrating the implausibility of the excuse being believed by the recipient.
Claire: When I came back with your wine you'd already left. What happened?
Steve: When that wine-snob came over to talk about the wine we were drinking, I had to use a grooming excuse to get out of there.
Steve: When that wine-snob came over to talk about the wine we were drinking, I had to use a grooming excuse to get out of there.
by WineBusProf February 20, 2015
When someone befriends you online, using Social Media, Skype, Emails, Or other forms of contact, to extract information from you, or Guilt you into giving them money - Close to Romance scam, but romance doesn't have to be the key interest here to scam you
Person 1: Remember Donna?
Person 2: Yeah.
Person 1: Apparently her friend Online has asked for her to give her some money
Person 2: Sounds like a grooming scam to me.
Person 2: Yeah.
Person 1: Apparently her friend Online has asked for her to give her some money
Person 2: Sounds like a grooming scam to me.
by Aluzionz October 05, 2015
by Sarah fake name April 21, 2015
Used when talking about Horror Films when a character is clearly going to die soon. Inspired by the British Soap character Gail Platt who has had 4 out of her 5 husbands die.
by Corrieface November 12, 2020