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Textless Syndrome 

When your leg feels like its vibrating like you got a text. Or a call, when in reality you didn't.
Mostly happens when you want to talk to someone but they wont reply back, So you keep thinking your phone is going off.

Ex: Jimmy waits for his Jan to text him back saying she will go out with him. Jimmy has contracted textless syndrome

2 hours later Jimmy gets his answer after checking his phone 8k times. Looks like its just his hand tonight.

Textless Leg Syndrome 

Similiar to textless syndrome, but with a better pun. You think your cell phone is going off with a text from your crush, but it is just your nerves. Common when sitting on the couch, watching TV or twiddling your thumbs. Symptoms include sweating and restlessness.
There it was again. The feeling. John slowly reached down and grabbed the phone from his pocket... he glanced down at the phone... no text. The sixth time he had done that. It seemed as if Emily would never text him back. He had heard of this. His friends once had a mild case of Textless Leg Syndrome, or TLS, but this was the full-blown case. It was teenage hunting season.

textless 

In an email, IM, IRC, SMS, or MUD exchange, temporarily unable to write, as through astonishment.

Compare to speechless in spoken language.
A: Remember that sick panda at the zoo?
B: Yeah.
A: She died.
B: ...I'm textless.
textless by Lingrad August 3, 2005
Word of the Day on January 11, 2006

Textless 

When someone text you a very awkward and creepy message... Like speechless
Worker 1: Girl, my boss is so hip! He texts me with a winky emoji like, ;)

Worker 2: Omg, what a creep! If my boss would ever text me with just a winky emoji? Id be totally creeped out and will leave me textless.

Girl: aww, you're so cute! I love guys who love animals!

Boy: :)

Girl: *textless*
Textless by Mekaekae May 30, 2015

textless 

1 textless- deliberately silent. as in those who suffer a textural aposiopesis..."often brought on in chat rooms by the text of the mindless.

2 To be struck textless - to suffer writers block or to be under the curse of Wen Ti {the Chinese god of literature, whose chief heavenly task is to keep a log of men of letters so that he can mete out rewards and punishments to each.}

3 textless is to words what clueless is to thought
It is only the event of text chat and email that has prevented the westen world from becomng a textless enviroment.
textless by David Priestley January 14, 2006

textless 

Unable to send/receive/process text messages. Used in reference to a cell phone.
Bob had one of those old early '90 phones and therefore he was textless.
textless by GRich108 January 12, 2006
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proper lad 

a lad that is such a lad that he is a proper lad
person1:did you see bob
person2: ya he was a proper lad
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Wife’s boyfriend: You have 5 more minutes
Me: Poggers!
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Oblication 

A vacation, feeling more like an obligation, that involves visiting or staying with family.
So Joe where are you taking the kids for spring break vacation? We are going on an oblication to Boca to visit my mother-in-law.
Oblication by kimmerr May 5, 2011
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Surf Dracula Syndrome 

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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.
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Word of the Day on October 24, 2026
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