Vapors Edit Meaning

1.

Situation where someone treats someone one way, usually negatively, and then at a later point in time regrets what was done to that other person in the past or begins to treat the same person in a more respectful manner. Identified in the 1988 Biz Markie song "Vapors."

Girls dissed you because you were broke. Now that you blew-up and have money, the same girls want to get with you. These women have caught the vapors.

Guy breaks up with his girlfriend. Later on realizes that she was all he ever wanted and that breaking up with her was a mistake. Now he wants her back. He's got the vapors.

See regret, hindsight, revenge

2.

An ailment causing real or imagined nausea, fainting, or dizziness on the part of Victorian women or women of similar delicate sensitivity. The cause is something seen or heard which so offends their modesty, there is no response they are capable of uttering. Typically a matter of sexual or cultural taboo is being violated, such as the mention of a sexual or excretory organ in conversation.

1. When Larry Summers claimed that men may have a greater innate ability in math than women, MIT biologist Nancy Hopkins had the vapors. In her own words she later explained "if I hadn't left, I would've either blacked out or thrown up."

2. The reaction of characters played by Margaret Dumont in the films of the Marx Brothers to something shocking.

See faint, dizzy, weakness, victorian, feminist

3.

Mainly used in the south. Describes a dizzying condition where the victim will actually see vapors in the air they breathe. Onset by hot and humid weather, think of really thick and soupy weather. Usually fanning or air conditioning will cure it.

It is so hot and wet out here I got the vapors!

See dizzy, deep south, hot, humidity

4.

N: a disease that is contracted when one goes to college. This term explains many misunderstood illnesses of college students. The Vapors molecules reside in the dirty run-down dorms on (the worst part of) campus.

Jennie and Brittany went to West Hall with Josh; a week later they discovered their coughing was a sever case of the vapors.

See vapors, college, filth

5.

Any type of zombie-like hangover (alcohol,drugs) one experiences after a night of partying, a feeling when you could just sleep/sit or lie down the entire day

Or when someone unknowingly passes their comsumption limit,(alcohol,drugs) without realizing it, until the next morning when they feel like shit!

Randy: Man, those long island teas we was sippin on last night, was da bomb!

Malcolm: Yes they were, they didnt seem very strong, and i totally woke up with the vapors this morning

See hangover, overdose, smashed, zombie, coma

6.

n. (va-perz)

1. Any of various diseases, including chancroid, chlamydia, gonorrhea, and syphilis, that are usually contracted through sexual intercourse or other intimate sexual contact. see STD.

2. A stinky bagina. A girl with the vapors typically is sexually promiscuous, consequently her vagina does not have time to air out and freshen up.

Don't hook up with her, she's got the vapors.