I’m sure we have all had a relationship or two where this has happened to you, either you pulling the fade or the fade is pulled on you. Getting it pulled on you is never a good feeling and pulling the fade yourself can be either intentional or unintentional. I have been guilty of unintentionally pulling the fade, but I do have a friend or two who have pulled it intentionally.
Colin and I were talking about this very subject and he checked UrbanDictionary.com (some defintions NSFW) and found their various defintions of “fade” to be unnacceptable and took it upon himself to submit one of his own. Once he submitted it took a day or two for it to be approved, and here it is in all it’s glory.
Fade
(from the Latin “fatidus”, meaning to blend) In a complicated relationship, one finds it amongst themselves to cut off all communication, recognition in public, etc., for unknown reasons. (When a woman applies this action, she is considered a [expletive], whilst a man is seen as a God among mortals.)
Examples:
Pat: That [expletive] is pulling a fade.
Andy: Pull the fade right back. (recommended response)