holding pattern


term used when in a club or bar when you want to talk to a girl, but looks like she has a bf or someone else waiting to talk to her.

you enter the holding pattern until either everyone around her goes away or you alter your destination somewhere else.
dude 1: hey dude, there’s a pretty girl over there by the bar, but looks like she has a bf.

dude 2: i’ll enter a holding pattern until he p-sses off.
driving around in a small area (such as a parking lot). this is usually done because of lack of parking sp-ces or lack of desirable parking sp-ces. often used while waiting to pick somebody up or for a parking sp-ce to become available.

derived from: aviation term. a repet-tive route flown by an aircraft which keeps it in the same area. a holding pattern is used when an aircraft (commonly a commercial airliner) cannot land at an airport, often simply because there are no available runways. in this circ-mstance, the aircraft will enter a holding pattern while it awaits its turn to land.

it is believed that this term, used in the automotive context, was first used by steve packard, however, if anyone else has used this term previously to describe driving in cirles, feel free to post.
when i dropped mike off to pick up the pizza, there were no good parking sp-ces, so i went into a holding pattern until he came out.

i didn’t want to double park while waiting for sue to come out of the store, so i went into a holding pattern, driving around the block until i saw her emerge.
the term applied to the dogfight in progress over any radio facility serving a terminal airport.
atc: cessna 78 romeo, enter holding pattern

me: oh cr-p

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