hooking up with someone repeatedly when one or both partners have an emotional attachment to their partner; i.e. one-night stands and other sexual encounters with no promise of commitment over a number of years. usually leads to heartbreak, drama, pining, and complaints about having wasted energy over a relationship.
1) They've been hooking up since freshman year of college. We've graduated and live in New York now. Six years! This isn't just your casual one-night stand anymore...this is a hookup of attrition.
2) Don't pay attention to her when she talks about that guy. Their relationship is a hookup of attrition.
3) He's hitting himself upside the head because his hookup of attrition is being a bitch again.
2) Don't pay attention to her when she talks about that guy. Their relationship is a hookup of attrition.
3) He's hitting himself upside the head because his hookup of attrition is being a bitch again.
by countingtheleavesinherhair August 9, 2010
A film sub-genre in which the characters are picked off one by one, often by a masked killer or malignant force. Salient examples: Friday the 13th (Jason); Final Destination (Death); Sunshine (the Sun).
Coined by Tasha Robinson of the AV Club to describe Danny Boyle's film "Sunshine"(2007).
Coined by Tasha Robinson of the AV Club to describe Danny Boyle's film "Sunshine"(2007).
Originating quote, from the review of "Sunshine"(2007) -
In many ways, Sunshine is a been-there-done-that cast-attrition thriller: Alien with an exterior monster instead of an interior one, Event Horizon with better effects and less gore, Pitch Black with the contrast turned way up. The cast members make wry jokes about getting eliminated one at a time, horror-movie style, but they still follow all the horror-movie procedures, even duly splitting up in a dangerous, unknown situation. It's like they've gracefully accepted that they're just hitting a series of predestined, genre-mandated marks. - Tasha Robinson, Onion A.V. Club
In many ways, Sunshine is a been-there-done-that cast-attrition thriller: Alien with an exterior monster instead of an interior one, Event Horizon with better effects and less gore, Pitch Black with the contrast turned way up. The cast members make wry jokes about getting eliminated one at a time, horror-movie style, but they still follow all the horror-movie procedures, even duly splitting up in a dangerous, unknown situation. It's like they've gracefully accepted that they're just hitting a series of predestined, genre-mandated marks. - Tasha Robinson, Onion A.V. Club
by PhD (Pretentious hipster Douchebag) August 28, 2007
An open-assembly voting strategy in which an item guaranteed to place new tax or other burdens on the town's hardest workers is brought back for a final vote after these riffraff have left to rest up, if not show up, for their next shifts.
Guess what, Tony... that new water works plant passed after we left. We didn't have enough Nays to stop it before we had to leave, and then "opposition attrition" kicked in, leaving the usuals who coulda stayed till noon enough Ayes to ram it through.
by Zappin' Nap July 23, 2023