1. A word used to describe an object or being (esp. person) that is extremely popular for unknown reasons.
2. A word used to describe the aura created by such an object or being.
Origins: In September 2005 (according to Alexia, a division of Amazon.com responsible for monitoring internet traffic) a website known as the "wowzone" ranked, inexplicably, as the 496th most popular site (out of 8,168,684,336 web pages). This led to a small group of individuals using the word as a description for things which had become popular for no overt reason.
1. "Keanu Reeves is a wowzone."
2. "Contemporary serial plagiarists Oasis are creating a near dangerous wowzone."- Matt
Wozzing or to woz is to deliberately, knowingly waste time when you have actually got something rather important to do. Examples include: tidying your room when you should be revising for an exam or randomly deciding to finally back up all your photos onto CD when you've got a presentation for work to prepare. Origin: acronym W.A.S. "Work Avoidance Strategy".
A phenomenon in film/television series, most notably streaming series, where the main premise is drawn out to such a point that it takes an entire season or more to get the parts of the series the audience is actually interested in seeing.
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.
I watched "Smallville" on Netflix the other day. Dude, it was ten seasons of filler before he finally flew! Major Surf Dracula Syndrome!
Finding your way back to the truth by fixing on one verified fact and working out from there, the way you navigate by the North Star when everything around you is spinning.
Rumours were flying everywhere, so she went northstarring — one checked fact at a time.
A plate of brown consists of foods that have little to no nutritional value, and are typically deep fried. A true plate of brown will also be accompanied by a dark soda.
When finance content creators rent out fancy cars and flexcash to seem richer than they really are in order to promote and sell their “get rich quick” courses.