The condition where a group of people sharing a living space each avoid doing a household chore for an extended period because each believes it's someone else's responsibility. The idea is that eventually the situation will reach a critical mass where the guilty party will cave in and do the chore. In practice, the situation can escalate to extreme levels.
> "I'm not going to do the dishes. It's your turn." "Yeah, but 90% of them are from the dinner you made for your girlfriend. I'm not cleaning up your mess." "I'm not playing roommate chicken with you on this. Clean it up!" "I'll die before I clean your mess." "Fuck you!" "Fuck you!"

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学英语单词
ad eundem
adult offender
allotropic
allowed hours
altizide
anderson r.
auditor's liability to third party
autrefois convict formerly convicted
background value of soil elements
bad conditions
begl
Belfast truss
besaiel
Biedert's cream mixture
brotherfuckers
bypass filter
chain block pulley
chancellors
citrus mealybug
commercial representation
conferee
Cryptography.
deltics
Direct Agency
duffest
exhaust gas converter
fall to cuff
flat bed container
genetic repair mechanism
genuinely
germylsilans
GPDC (general purpose digital computer)
grass crap
have little to do with
high flow-rate
huntsmanship
Hurdiyo
ichthyopterygium (or pterygium)
impact modifier
in the very act of doing something
International Accounting Standards
irene photiniicola
jumper coupler
Khunsār
Koranology
maintenance and overhaul personnel cost
malfis
minimal vector
modulator-demodulator (modem)
multi-grab
nasal mucormycosis
neumann's expansion
neurodegenerations
nonexpendituring cost
Notre-Dame-du-Rosaire
nylon fiber
one's last rest
osteoclasis
Pall ring
parasesarma pictum
pastours
PATSCHEN
pedalings
phenazoline
polemicised
power monitoring system
Processus papillaris
pseuduridine
quantum spin liquid
radio-lead
rayge
Rayleigh scattering method
real estate morttgage
receive a trust
redines
remote resource
repelled downstream hydraulic jump
segmentation paging mode
sekhonyana
sheep-splits
single ladder dredger
source program form
subduction belt
superstainless
supplemental deed
tilt block
topogrphical effect
tordoffs
translationally
troparil
tuberous plants
uncommunicative
underground cavity survey
unstiffened member
urge
vibroplex
washing liquor exhaust pipe
waxed tablet
welfare projects
wideband data set
wither up
zodiac light