An obligation to have sex due to pressure or circumstances. One may experience this when a friend is fornicating with their partner and you are alone with a person of the opposite sex your friend "set you up" with.
Guy 1: So what did you do last night
Guy 2: I went over to my bros house and he went to go bang his girl the whole night and I was left alone with my bros girlfriends friend
Guy 1: Was she hot?
Guy 2: Nah not really but we banged anyways.. it was more of a fornication obligation
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The social pressure to invite an unwanted person to an event
βIs Tom coming to your party on Saturday night?β / βNo way dude, if I invite Tom then I have to invite his annoying girlfriend too... Invitation obligation.β
βRachel always guilts me with invitation obligation... I always give in and end up inviting her boring friend Laura along too.β
The responsibility of having to please (sexually) one's spouse/ girlfriend/ boyfriend even if one is not in the mood.
I have to be home early tonight, I have my spousal obligation which I have been putting off for days.
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An obligation incurred by helping someone, which requires the helper to continue helping. From the old assumption in the West that the Chinese do everything backwards and upside-down(e.g., "Chinese fire drill," "Chinese auction," etc.).
I saved a kitten from a shelter, and now I have this Chinese obligation to raise them.
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Literally means, "nobility obliges". It's generally used to imply that with wealth, power, and prestige come social responsibility. It's mostly used to refer to the wealthy who are condescending and shower their money and privileges upon those who don't necessarily want it.
Our landlord gave us a basket of fruit for Christmas, as his noblesse oblige.
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The stuff that most Asians are obligated to do. Includes orchestra, debate, piano, rigorous classes, math team and so on.
White kid: Hey Cho, can you hang out after school?
Azn kid: I doubt it. I've got a debate meeting after school, I have to study for an AP Chem test and then I have to go to an orchestra concert.
White kid: Asian obligations, eh?
Azn kid: Yup.
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when you're IMing or texting someone and the conversation reaches a point where you have nothing left to say but you feel obligated to respond anyway
person 1- "why are you staring at that blank text?"
person 2- "because i dont know what else to say"
person 1- "ooo, got that obligation message feeling?"
person 2- "yep"
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