Definition: That heart-stopping instant when you narrowly escape death by sheer luck after doing something monumentally stupid, like climbing drunk between skyscraper balconies or blow-drying your hair mid-bath. It’s nature’s way of whispering, “Not today, dumbass.”
The bone-deep shiver of realizing your oblivious ass almost won a Darwin Award. Leaves you swearing off dumb shit forever, while your guardian angel clocks overtime pay.
Example:
After drunkenly attempting to tightrope walk the construction beam, my slip and frantic grab left me shaking, realizing how close I came to a Darwin Award.
The truck horn blast as I blindly stepped off the curb jolted me; my guardian angel earned overtime preventing that monumentally stupid mistake from being my last.