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What is tune out?
Phrase: When you, someone else, or even a group of people listen to a conversation (most often it's an argument or fight) between others to get all the juicy details, but don't want those who are having the conversation to know that you're listening to them, tell your fellow listeners to do this. Its primary use is to prevent getting yourself or others involved in the confrontation, and allows you to listen for the details.
Guy 1: Hey, the boss and the new guy are having an argument! Sounds like he won't be here much longer!
Guy 2: Tune in but Tune out, man! Get the details but don't get involved!
tune out - video
Tune out - what is it?
A term coined by Timothy Leary to describe the psychedelic experience. Leary explains it in his book Flashbacks as such
“Turn on’ meant go within to activate your neural and genetic equipment. Become sensitive to the many and various levels of consciousness and the specific triggers that engage them. Drugs were one way to accomplish this end. ‘Tune in’ meant interact harmoniously with the world around you – externalize, materialize, express your new internal perspectives. Drop out suggested an elective, selective, graceful process of detachment from involuntary or unconscious commitments. ‘Drop Out’ meant self-reliance, a discovery of one’s singularity, a commitment to mobility, choice, and change. Unhappily my explanations of this sequence of personal development were often misinterpreted to mean ‘Get stoned and abandon all constructive activity.”
"Like every great religion of the past we seek to find the divinity within and to express this revelation in a life of glorification and the worship of God. These ancient goals we define in the metaphor of the present — turn on, tune in, drop out." - Timothy Leary
What does "tune out" mean?
when an individual resorts to putting in his/her headphones and connecting to their musical device manufactured by Apple (i.e iPod, iPod nano, iPod mini) when a conversation is boring.
Person 1: "He would rather listen to the Ying Yang twins then listen to me."
Person 2: "That's because you're boring, so he's I-Tuning you out"
Tune out - what does it mean?
When someone is blabbering on and on about something you don't give a shit about, and out of pure disrespect, you put an airpod in your ear to tune out and ignore their constant yapping
"So anyways bro, there's this guy right? And he looked at me and he said.... Wait what was it he said again? Oh yeah it wa-"
*Inserts airpods* 'Man, that's crazy'
"I swear to God, are you doing an AirPod tune out right now? I knew you were a bitch"
'Say again? I couldn't hear you'
Tune out - meaning
a TOW is something like "cool" or "hmm" while somebody is telling you something, like them having a disease and they need your help to sell drugs.
"So then I said to her i hate her and then we divorced and my life fell apart.."
"mm-hmm"
"You using saying Tuned Out Words?"
"cool"
BANG BANG
CRASH
Tune out - definition
The act of completely ignoring someone in order to watch a nickelodeon program.
Man 1: I was wondering if you could take out the trash.
Boy 2: Shhh!!! Spongebob is on, you are now nick-tuned out.
Tune out - slang
You stopped talking to someone
On facebook someone may msg you asking "why yu tune out,?" well now you'll now to reply with "bish text me."
Tune out
to ignore someone by playing music really loudly, while they are talking, to cover up the sound of their voice.
best when used during nagging sessions by parents, significant others, or just to ignore some annoying schmo.
Oh no, mom's nagging at me again..time to tune out.. *blares ipod*
*mom continues her rant unheard*