When someone uses means of climbing their way to the top that other would deem cheap or unfair. Usually (but not always) refers to online games with a ladder ranking system. People who "take the elevator instead of the ladder" will use powerful characters, weapons, or tactics that they know all too well are soon to receive the ban hammer or their bullshitly high power to skill ratio in order to get as high up on the ranking ladder for the game as they can, usually for fame, respect, and power in the community.
David took the elevator instead of the corporate ladder to become VP of his company by brown nosing the boss.
Many of the newer or less experienced players on Pokemon Showdown were taking the elevator instead of the ladder by abusing the fuck out of Mega Gengar before its imminent ban from OU. The ladder gets reset after each ban anyways, so the joke is on them.
When a guy and a girl on the bottom bunk of a bunkbed and a guy and a girl on the top bunk of a bunkbed simultaneously make out. An uncomfortably tall man with a large head wearing a bellhop hat dings the hotel lobby check-in desk bell every time the guy tries to touch the girl's honey pot. Mid-way through a Hotel Elevator, if a frenchman climbs to the top bunk and joins the upper twosome, the term no longer applies. The bellhop dings the bell three times and declares "check-out time was 30 minutes ago." Then the uncomfortably tall man dons a maid's apron and jumps into the bottom bunk.
Me and my big brother Hotel Elevatored those two chicks last night. Too bad my roommate had to come in and spoil the fun.
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A person that stops the elevator, gets on, cuts a huge fart, and sends the elevator on its way.
Oh god, someone shit in here. I have to get off before somebody else gets on and thinks its me.
Elevator bomber
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The person on an elevator who is "told" what floor someone else on the elevator would like to go to instead of that person asking politely.
Douchebag steps into elevator and simply says "4" to the poor bastard closest to the buttons. (Elevator bitch)
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A person that stops the elevator, gets on, cuts a huge fart, and sends the elevator on its way.
Oh god, someone shit in here. I have to get off before somebody else gets on and thinks its me.
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A Los Angeles California based underground hip hop group, which was formed in 1998.
Yo that group Elevated Grounds is sick twisted dawg.
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Those species of humans who sit under stair cases or elevators and play Nintendo dsβs or games similar.
Oh look thereβs the elevator kids under the stairs again