Emo Gambit Edit Meaning

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A practice often used by teenagers and the emotionally unstable/immature where the threat of suicide is employed to either prevent a break-up, or begin a relationship, with someone who is clearly uninterested.

I really need to break things off with him, since he's getting clingy, but I don't want him throwing an Emo Gambit.

See emo, suicide, whiny