Military and government jargon: The process of developing PowerPoint slides and other media that will induce coma in the audience.
"The news media sessions often last 25 minutes, with 5 minutes left at the end for questions from anyone still awake. Those types of PowerPoint presentations...are known as “hypnotizing chickens.” "
(New York Times, 4/27/10)
(New York Times, 4/27/10)
by Four Iron Feet April 27, 2010
Effect obtained when a man twists his balls way up so they stick out over the waist of his pants. So named because it looks like a peach is suspended in front of him.
Gaze into my hypnotic peach...
by rancidmonkey February 15, 2004
Conducting a briefing or presentation heavily laden with powerpoint slides when the goal is not imparting information, as in pentagon briefings for reporters. The format typically consists of 20 minutes of powerpoint with 5 minutes allowed for questions from anyone left still awake.
The Pentagon's news conference about the recent massacre in Iraq was a half hour exercise in hypnotizing chickens.
by Winking Chicken April 27, 2010
"I smoked to much weed and thought my dick could be a lightsaber but it looks like a hypnotized snail 🐌"
by Mrs.C.Baird August 31, 2023
Meaning of hypnotize in English:
hypnotize
VERB
(also British hypnotise)
WITH OBJECT
1Produce a state of hypnosis in (someone)
1.1Capture the whole attention of (someone); fascinate.
‘she gazed down, hypnotized by the swirling tide’
Pronunciation /ˈhɪpnətʌɪz/
hypnotize
VERB
(also British hypnotise)
WITH OBJECT
1Produce a state of hypnosis in (someone)
1.1Capture the whole attention of (someone); fascinate.
‘she gazed down, hypnotized by the swirling tide’
Pronunciation /ˈhɪpnətʌɪz/
‘I didn't hypnotize her, she hypnotized herself, I just helped her along.’
‘Without any telepathic powers, Dani could not hypnotise someone that did not wish to be hypnotised, but Carl had opened himself completely to her.’
‘He sees his therapist, who hypnotises him.’
‘What we'll do is Dani will hypnotise you and keep you under while I use my telepathy to get into your mind.’
‘Or had the man with a cough, for his own nefarious purposes, mesmerised or hypnotised me, and to some extent succeeded?’
‘It seems like he's hypnotized, I read once that hypnotized people have an internal clock.’
‘I should mention that I was hypnotized earlier today, and I'm in a mental state altogether new to me.’
‘I was hypnotised by the rhythm of his politeness.’
‘Her eyes wandered in the circular motion of the black coffee, the trace amounts of sugar swirling inside of it hypnotizing her.’
‘I gulped, and then looked away quickly before the power of Jonas' gaze hypnotized me into a stammering idiot.’
‘I was fascinated by them, hypnotised by them - until you wake up and realise they're nuts.’
‘I stared at the cross and officer's badge hanging from ribbons on the rearview mirror, rather hypnotized the whole way.’
Hypnotize (ˈhɪpnətʌɪz)
‘Without any telepathic powers, Dani could not hypnotise someone that did not wish to be hypnotised, but Carl had opened himself completely to her.’
‘He sees his therapist, who hypnotises him.’
‘What we'll do is Dani will hypnotise you and keep you under while I use my telepathy to get into your mind.’
‘Or had the man with a cough, for his own nefarious purposes, mesmerised or hypnotised me, and to some extent succeeded?’
‘It seems like he's hypnotized, I read once that hypnotized people have an internal clock.’
‘I should mention that I was hypnotized earlier today, and I'm in a mental state altogether new to me.’
‘I was hypnotised by the rhythm of his politeness.’
‘Her eyes wandered in the circular motion of the black coffee, the trace amounts of sugar swirling inside of it hypnotizing her.’
‘I gulped, and then looked away quickly before the power of Jonas' gaze hypnotized me into a stammering idiot.’
‘I was fascinated by them, hypnotised by them - until you wake up and realise they're nuts.’
‘I stared at the cross and officer's badge hanging from ribbons on the rearview mirror, rather hypnotized the whole way.’
Hypnotize (ˈhɪpnətʌɪz)
by ANCIENT_WOLFY January 20, 2022
Something which is disgusting, grisly, or gruesome - but both in spite of and because of that, those who gaze upon it find themselves unable to look away for a long period of time, and may even find themselves watching it again and again, if possible.
There was always something morbidly hypnotic about the way my father would use a knife to scrape the black stuff from under his toenail, wipe it on his knee, and repeat, until all nine toes were scraped clean.
by Resinhaulder May 28, 2010
When autistic folks and idiot savants claim that hours-long meditation on the seemingly random or sacred digits of the number π puts them in some kind of trance, which allows their mind’s eye to see sexy numerical patterns or relationships, or to visualize kaleidoscopic geometric shapes in higher dimensions.
Number theorists obsessed with the properties of π love to indulge themselves in hypnotic pi activities, hoping to experience a few aha! moments, which could help them secure early tenure thanks to some breakthrough results or elegant proofs on pi that grace the pages of reputable math journals.
by MathPlus June 27, 2021