When you become an option. You are not first pick of friends. When your friend starts dating someone and you are put up on a shelf until they have no other people to hang with.
I don't need you anymore, I'm dating somebody. So I'll put you up on the shelf until I have a need for you. You are my shelf friend.
by Pix_n_stones July 16, 2017
Get the shelf friend mug.An individual who is only your friend to use you for their own personal gain and is magically not around when you actually need a friend. Also known as selfish and a bitch.
Wow, you know Jessica, we should have seen right through Rebecca, she is such a self-serving friend; she only wanted to be friends with us so she could pass bio lab.
by Good Friends United January 15, 2009
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Abbreviated as "SEF"
The friend(s) of a highly attractive girl who's sole purpose is to make the attractive girl feel better about themselves and look perpetually times more attractive to guys.
Also, the SEF serves a double purpose as a cockblocker
The friend(s) of a highly attractive girl who's sole purpose is to make the attractive girl feel better about themselves and look perpetually times more attractive to guys.
Also, the SEF serves a double purpose as a cockblocker
Charlie: Yo check out that slut over at that table, shes hot as fuck. Im'a go get that.
Justin: Yeah dude, but check out all her friends.
Charlie: Fucking Self Esteem Friends...
Justin: Yeah dude, but check out all her friends.
Charlie: Fucking Self Esteem Friends...
by You Wont, No Balls June 9, 2011
Get the Self Esteem Friend mug.Usually pertaining to guys, the friends shelf is when a girl labels you a friend, disallowing you to be anything more then "just friends".
I am on the friends shelf because this girl hangs out with me and we get along great but i will never be more then a friend to her.
by Tongnar July 11, 2006
Get the friends shelf mug.Self-Friendzoned is when you accidentally put yourslef into the friendzone with someone else. This is when they might have considered you as more than a friend, but you put yoursled right into the friendzone with someone you like. You can self-friendzone by making someone think that you are gay, or being wayyy to comfortable and honest with this person, distancing yourself from being attractive or sexy to the other person.
Girl One: How are things going with Dylan? Do you know if he likes you yet?
Girl Two: Naah. I messed everything up 'cuz we talk about everything, and now he tells me about masturbating and I tell him about my period. He'll never think I'm hot.
Girl One: Ooohh sounds like you self-friendzoned yourself girl.
Girl Two: Naah. I messed everything up 'cuz we talk about everything, and now he tells me about masturbating and I tell him about my period. He'll never think I'm hot.
Girl One: Ooohh sounds like you self-friendzoned yourself girl.
by katiesmith125534567 December 13, 2017
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