1. When you keep watching more videos from the "related videos" section until you realize that you're watching videos completely unrelated to what you started watching

2. The very minor connection between two otherwise unrelated youtube videos
Steve: I found a cool video explaining the debt crisis while watching videos of Will Ferrell's Bush impression from SNL.

Greg: That's one hell of a youtube tangent.
by h4x2tehm4x October 18, 2011
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The sending and receiving of similar brain waves with another. These invisible signals are incomprehensible to humans but are closest compared to 'tangents' in time and space and contribute to people thinking the same thing as others.
'Ashlinn picked up the phone to decide to call her sister Shaunnagh but as she began to dial her number, Shaunnagh was ringing her' - This can be explained by tangent theory
by MaynoothBioScience December 14, 2012
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Mathematically speaking, a tangent line to a curve is a line which would coincide with the stream of piss you would create if you were trying to pee on a toilet that was shaped like said curve, at 3 am while trying not to make noise.
-Okay kids, does anyone have any questions regarding tangent lines?
-Yea I don't get it.
-Then get the fuck out of my class you little cunt.
by RelativelyRetarded October 17, 2017
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1. (v) The act of changing the subject of an argument or debate so as to distract one's opponent or a third party from the point of the opponent's argument.

2. (v) To procrastinate or avoid fulfulling a request by steering the conversation off in a tangent.

3. (n) Someone who partakes in tangent-fagging.
v: eg: Despite Dave's incessant tangent-fagging, John finally got his point across with the help of inertia and a very large baseball bat.

n: eg: Jamie wasn't going to push Oliver off the highway bridge, but Oliver was a tangent-fag so it didn't matter.
by Etowaoi November 1, 2015
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a meaningless, useless, retargerous detour from one's immediate goal or purpose
considering all the possible negative accompanying unattended cannonballs, please refrain from going on a wild tangent when you have a specific goal in mind that you want to achieve
by Sexydimma October 13, 2016
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An annoying individual in his early thirties that acts like a 4 year old who is severly ADD and unable to complete a sentence. Talks in endless circles without ever making a point. Frequently jumps to a completely different topic in the middle of a statement. Very distracted like the dog in the movie "UP"....squirrel!!

Obsessed with talking about dropping a douma.
What is Scott talking about now?!?!
Nobody ever knows what he is saying, he's a walking tangent!
by angryengineer March 9, 2011
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The act of jumping from tangent to tangent in a conversation.
"Yeah we started talking about what to do this weekend and started doing tangent parkour, an hour later we were discussing quantum mechanics."
by DarkGod86 September 30, 2021
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