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A powerful ray or beam of energy that pulls objects into the emitter; a manipulation of graviational force around a selected object.
"How did you get into that bad habit?"
"I don't know, it was like a tractor beam, sucked me right in.
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Our ship was pulled into the tractor beam
"I don't know, it was like a tractor beam, sucked me right in.
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Our ship was pulled into the tractor beam
by Gingerman the Bread April 18, 2008
Aug 11 Word of the Day
A phrase to describe someone who is cognitively degenerating. Synonym of "going off the deep end". Can have varying degrees of severity.
Reference to the song "Hey You" by Pink Floyd. The line "and the worms ate into his brain" makes no sense in an otherwise linear and literal narration throughout the lyrics.
Reference to the song "Hey You" by Pink Floyd. The line "and the worms ate into his brain" makes no sense in an otherwise linear and literal narration throughout the lyrics.
"My boyfriend has a total case of brain worms. He told me the cat was bugged so the Feds could listen in on us having sex..."
or
"You totally stumbled over that entire sentence. Can't speak English all of a sudden? What, do you have brain worms?"
or
"You totally stumbled over that entire sentence. Can't speak English all of a sudden? What, do you have brain worms?"
by _Jez_ October 03, 2009
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When a person walks past a TV/computer screen and stops mid-stance to stare at whatever is on the screen, instead of continuing on to his destination. Appears to have been pulled in by the tractor beam of the screen and is unable to move or think.
I asked my son to go make his lunch for school but he passed the loungeroom on the way and Scooby Doo was on, and he was caught in the tractor beam. He was there, frozen solid, for a good ten minutes until I turned off the TV.
by littlebarefoot August 21, 2010
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I thought I had wiped well enough but judging by the streaks my Tractor Beams picked up a few klingons.
by Dirty Glenn January 24, 2017
4
A person who sucks you into a stupid conversation, and you can't break away for a long period of time.
Holy crap. I was in talking with that nerd for like 3 hours about his cat. I couldn't stop him. He was such a tractor beam.
by tin trap May 07, 2010