Someone who knows what you want, but gives you only enough to keep you thinking they might give it to you, without fulfilling your desires.
Originally, this was of a sexual nature, usually meaning a woman who dressed provocatively, but then would not go out or have sex with the men she was attracting.
Today, a tease can be anyone who leads others on.
My boss keeps implying that I might get a promotion, but won't say for sure one way or the other. I wish he'd stop being such a tease!
Did you see the latest QuestionableContent comic? Jeph Jacques is drawing out this thing with Claire & Marten just to be a tease!
Don't be a tease, just tell me! Did you buy the latest Mario Kart or not? If you did, I'm coming over to play it right now!
The Supernatural writers are just being a tease. Dean and Cas will never get together.
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Someone who knows what you want, but gives you only enough to keep you thinking they might give it to you, without fulfilling your desires.
Originally, this was of a sexual nature, usually meaning a woman who dressed provocatively, but then would not go out or have sex with the men she was attracting.
Today, a tease can be anyone who leads others on.
My boss keeps implying that I might get a promotion, but won't say for sure one way or the other. I wish he'd stop being such a tease!
Did you see the latest QuestionableContent comic? Jeph Jacques is drawing out this thing with Claire & Marten just to be a tease!
Don't be a tease, just tell me! Did you buy the latest Mario Kart or not? If you did, I'm coming over to play it right now!
The Supernatural writers are just being a tease. Dean and Cas will never get together.
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A character from NBC's Community.
Anyone who is very knowledgeable about various fandoms.
The kind of person who is both geeky and self confident.
A person who was raised by TV and thus believes themselves to be inside a TV show.
Abed Nadir: When you really know who you are and what you like about yourself, changing for others isn't such a big deal.
You are such an Abed Nadir. Meta meta meta.
I watch Community because I am Abed Nadir.
To behave defensively, contained, or secretive. Usually when speaking.
He starts conversations with people by asking them loaded questions, he sits back and cagedly agrees with them or becomes indifferent.
Γ’ΒΒThey're busy, I suppose,Γ’ΒΒ Sarice answered somewhat cagedly.
The witness cagedly affirmed the comments, but gave away very little else.
The saying playing the long game refers to active participation in achieving goals which may take some time.
Susan knew that all she had to do was wait and watch, and eventually her cruel boss would do something so bad she'd be able to report him. She was good at playing the long game.
His friends called it being friend zoned, he called it playing the long game, but she called it being a fuckboy.
On the show Supernatural, both Big Bads have been playing Long Games to fulfill their plans. We won't find out what the final result will be until the season finale.
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