The cold season when everyone’s coupling up, so you settle for a new bf/gf way below your standards. ~Or~ you’re one of the smart ones who cozies up w Coors Light and your pupper bff.
Bobby: Yo, it’s cuffing season, you wanna lock this down?
Charlotte: Ugh no. I’m gonna Chill at home with a Coors Light and Murphy.
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During the Fall and Winter months people who would normally rather be single or promiscuous find themselves along with the rest of the world desiring to be "Cuffed" or tied down by a serious relationship. The cold weather and prolonged indoor activity causes singles to become lonely and desperate to be cuffed.
Brittany: Why is everyone trying to holla this week like outta no where?
Tiara: You know cuffing season is in full effect right?
Brittany: Oh yeah you right. I know I wont be sleeping alone this weekend.
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Usually the colder months; i.e. fall or winter, when new relationships start and old relationships turn into engagements. The persons in said relationships are "cuffed", meaning that they no longer seek non-platonic relationships with others.
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Duration: It starts the day after Halloween and ends the day after Valentine's Day.
November 1st - February 15th
When done with ulterior motives, it's the time women trick desperate men with romantic inclinations to get gifts and guys 'date down' to get gifts from desperate, grateful low hanging fruit.
It's a despicable practice and I don't suggest anyone doing the aforementioned, especially since during this time of year, emotions are extremely high and you risk getting your tires slashed [men].
But when it's mutual and both parties are knowledgeable and complicit in the act, it can be worthwhile; they just want to spend the cold holidays with someone who cares for them [even if it's just an illusion of a relationship OR 'seasonal friends with benefits'].
The reason behind this is that in most places it's cold and cloudy most of the time; a very depressing time of the year for most, but even more so when you don't have someone who cares for you or willing to spend time with you.
Some ladies with means/looks get boy toys and some guys opt out of a serious relationship for 'girlfriend experience'.
Those who were in lasting relationships before cuffing season...well, there's a reason why the majority of children are born in August - October...they were conceived...IN CUFFING SEASON!
Cuffing Season has begun; have you been cuffed?
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Cuffing Season- A season in the Autumn and Winter months, Were a woman handcuffs a man of her fancy, And the captured have to do sexual favors for her and/or marry her.
Woman 1: I just Captured a man and made him marry me
Friend: yea?
Woman 1: without a prenup
Friend: You monster!
Woman 1: well its Cuffing Season
Friend: True, Tis the season of physical, and emotional
domination over our male counterparts
Woman 1: Amen!
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Cuffing season refers to a period of time where single people begin looking for short term partnerships to pass the colder months of the year. Cuffing season usually begins in October and lasts until just after Valentines Day. The use of the word cuff references handcuffs, but is slang in the same vein as "hooking up" or "getting hitched."
What is cuffing season?
According to most lifestyle writers, it’s the time of the year when the weather starts to turn cold and single people begin the active search for romantic partners in the hope of having someone with whom to ride out the colder, snowier, bleaker months. Typically those months run from October through March—though as always with such things, your mileage may vary—but the season is generally regarded as culminating with Valentine’s Day.
“Cuffing season is when people start to want to be tied down in a serious relationship,” says licensed clinical psychologist Dara Bushman, PsyD. “The cold weather and lack of outdoors and sunshine causes singles to become lonely and desperate.”
— Taylor Andrews and Julia Pugachevsky, Cosmopolitan, 18 June 2019It makes sense, then, for cuffing season to be impacted by the weather. It seems like the change in seasons are only denoted by the date now. It is cold into spring, it is warm well into fall. How could cuffing season survive when the true seasons of fall and winter are not?
— Anna Iovine, Mashable, 11 Dec. 2019Cuffing season is the period during the autumn and winter months where finding a boyfriend or girlfriend is suddenly a lot more appealing. It officially starts in September when the temperature turns, but it's around now people are putting in a last-ditch effort to be paired up for the colder months if they haven't found a partner yet.
— Lindsay Dodgson, Insider, 10 Nov. 2019
Putting the "Cuff" in "Cuffing Season"
The act of seeking out casual romantic relationships certainly isn’t new, but cuffing season might be original in ascribing that desire to the weather. The “cuffs” in cuffing season allude to handcuffs, which might or might not sound like your idea of fun. The notion isn’t as kinky as what you may be thinking, though: it’s simply the idea of being connected or tied to another person, an idea expressed in similar phrases like hooking up or get hitched.
The earliest recorded print uses of cuffing season date from college newspapers in 2011, with cuff preceding that as a verb with origins in African-American vernacular as something close in meaning to hook up. The term saw significant use as college jargon before ever seeing print; its use in the title of a 2013 song by the rapper Fabolous might have helped to introduce the phrase to the public at large.
On top of that, the popularity of dating apps like Tinder, which come with their own winking terminology [e.g. swipe right], gave cuffing season a platform.
Other phrases have similarly arisen. Using the name of a popular home subscription streaming service, the phrase Netflix and chill has taken hold as coded language for time devoted to relaxation at home with a companion [as opposed to going out on an actual date] with room for extracurricular activities later.
Which sounds like fun, sure. But aren't there some nights when it would be just as nice to curl up with a good book?
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