goldfish friend

a type of friend that tends to forget you exist when they make new friends, or get a new girl/boyfriend, and then come crawling back if/when the relationship ends.

similar to a goldfish forgetting something in its tank and rediscovering it after swimming around the entire tank.

“did you hear that marcus broke up with kristina?”

“yeah, he came crawling back to me after ghosting me for a month. he’s such a goldfish friend, i hate when he does this shit.”