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A magical substance that casues water to boil. This word was invented by Vsauce.
What if there was a stove that emitted boil-o that would cause water to boil?
A term coined by Michael Stevens of Vsauce, Boil-o is an invisible, undetectable, unverifiable/unfalsifiable substance that appears whenever things begin to boil. While, yes, the phenomenon of boiling is perfectly explained without Boil-o, Boil-o is still there.
Boil-o is used as an example of redundancy. If a phenomena is perfectly explained without something, why include the something?
"Johnny: Yo man, I'm cooking up some pasta, you want some?
Mike: Yeah, sure, just start boiling the water.
Johnny: Don't you mean "apply BOIL-O to the water?"
Mike: For fucks sake, John, I don't want to get into this philosophy shit, it's been a long day, just- just tell me when you're done, alright?
Johnny: Jeez man, fine, I'll tell you when it's done.
Mike: Thank you.
A magical substance which emerges when heating water over a gas stove which has the same effect of heating water as the burning gas.
You cannot disprove or argue the existence of boil-o!
Damn Daniel my stomach hurts I need to boil pretzel sticks.
To lose one’s intensity or interest on something.
Don’t go off the boil because of this one deviation Michael. Stay focused!
When some one who usually follows traditional conservative ways and philosophies, is opening up to more liberal life ideas.
My grandfather is starting to accepting the idea of gay marriage as a normal thing, he is boiling the cabbage.
A straight woman whose type appears to be eggs (guys who haven't realized they're trans women yet). Often repeatedly goes after men with soft feminine sides, only to find herself accidentally dating another woman.
Originally seen used by Reddit user /u/babification_
"Jeez, I've never seen a straight woman go after so many bottoms..."
"Yeah, and they all turn out to be girls too, she's a real soft-boiled lesbian"