Holding Pattern

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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. Urban Dictionary

Driving around in a small area (such as a parking lot). This is usually done because of lack of parking spaces or lack of desirable parking spaces. Often used while waiting to pick somebody up or for a parking space to become available. Derived from: Aviation term. A repetitive 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 circumstance, 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. Urban Dictionary

The term applied to the dogfight in progress over any radio facility serving a terminal airport. Urban Dictionary

When you're put on hold for a painfully long period of time. Urban Dictionary

Words that sound like holding pattern:
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