2. Man they really got me today. What are you talking about. Well they hammered me on the sales numbers today. Yeah it was kind of like standing there doing the hamstring stretch standing, and then just taking it up the butt. Yeah man I know how you feel.
To cause one to not be able to move, walk, or function. To immobilize someone, to make someone powerless. (taken from the literal practice of cutting with a knife an animal's or person's hamstring muscle) past tense - hamstrung
The lack of investors will hamstring my efforts to move the project forward.
When a person or company tries to get out of a situation, by finding a loophole to get through, or coming up with some kind of bullshit excuse.
Much like a hamster tries anything to escape its cage.
Damn insurance company is hamstering out of paying me.
Coming from the word Hamstring. Hamstringed is the past tense of being Hamstrung. IE, to be slowed down by act of receiving hamstring. Once you are Hamstringed, your movement is slowed by up to 50%. This effect will usually last for about 45 seconds. During this time, you are more likely to get owned, pwnd, and/or phwned by someone who is not hamstrung, thus give them the advantage to move at default speed.
Person A: Hey, come over here before we get caught.
Person B: Ok, OMW
Person A: Oh no!!
Person B: What's wrong?
Person A: Oh shit!, I’m hamstringed son!!
Person B: Well, come over here, we can hide Person A: I’m hamstringed!!
Person B: ???
Person A: I’M HAMSTRINGED!!
Person A: Hamstringed
Person B: ...
Noun. The pseudo name of an individual who achieves a level of heralded stature in the eyes of an authority figure (i.e. coach, boss), but who is actually thought to be a douche bag by his or her peers.
If Johnny Hamsterdick was in the weight room yesterday, he would have done more than 1000 chin-ups.
If Johnny Hamsterdick was around in 1941, Japan would not have bombed Pearl Harbor.
While our lifespan is the number of years we will live, our healthspan is the number of healthy years we will have and our sexspan is is the number of years we will continue to be healthy enough to continue having an active sex life.
A lighthearted reaction upon receiving disappointing news of some sort. Usually something that isn't a particularly a big deal, esp. when it primarily affects someone else - sort of a mild schadenfreude. Sometimes doubled or tripled, and possibly said in a sing-songy voice for added comedic effect to imitate a muted trumpet, which is how the meme originated.
You didn't get any napkins with your takeout pork fried rice? Womp womp.
A phenomenon in film/television series, most notably streaming series, where the main premise is drawn out to such a point that it takes an entire season or more to get the parts of the series the audience is actually interested in seeing.
For example, if a series is titled "Surf Dracula," a majority of viewers would tune in expecting to see Dracula surfing by the first or second episode. However, the entire first season would instead be tedious padding and backstory before finally ending with Dracula surfing in the last five minutes of the season finale.
I watched "Smallville" on Netflix the other day. Dude, it was ten seasons of filler before he finally flew! Major Surf Dracula Syndrome!
Finding your way back to the truth by fixing on one verified fact and working out from there, the way you navigate by the North Star when everything around you is spinning.
Rumours were flying everywhere, so she went northstarring — one checked fact at a time.