A switch in a house hold that does not turn anything on or off, or do anything else.
click, click, click
jonny:stop playing with that switch, you will break it.
bob: dont worry, its just a phantom switch, it doesnt do anything
6๐ 1๐
When one leaves a party/gathering/event without saying their goodbyes to any of their friends, whereby relieving themselves from the exhausting and time consuming "goodbye" rituals.
You: Where did Mimi and Roger go?
Friend: Damn them! They made a phantom exit...again!
7๐ 1๐
Imaginary lover of the mind he/she doesn't exist.
"Hey why is that patient here in the asylum" he asked "She said her boyfriend killed a man but she's lived alone she must have made a phantom lover."
6๐ 1๐
The feeling of your phone vibrating in your pocket when it is not there. Also occurs when you have lost your cellphone, but keep hearing it ring.
Betsy almost wrecked her car trying to answer her phantom cellphone.
6๐ 1๐
When a popular social media app clearly indicates that you have an unread notification, only to reveal there are no new notifications. The only people affected by this are people that never get mentions or RTs, because important people always have hundreds of unread messages at any given time. The Phantom message is a technique the service uses to make you feel popular, even though nobody reads your lame-ass tweets.
Tim: My twizzler is blowing up. Never mind, just another phantom notification.
6๐ 1๐
whenever you sit at the computer and you know the keyboard is gone, yet you still reach for it.
my mom hid the keyboard from me and all day i had phantom keyboard
6๐ 1๐
A quality band with two good cds. They are not "The band that plays the OC theme song".
"I'm going to see Phantom Planet."
"You mean the band that played Big Brat?"
"Yeah"
44๐ 21๐