Backrooms
name, noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 plural of backroom form-of, plural
- 1 An online urban legend or creepypasta of a seemingly endless maze of empty hallways, often described as being inhabited by monsters or having multiple levels or floors. Internet
"If you're not careful and you noclip out of reality in the wrong areas, you'll end up in the Backrooms, where it's nothing but the stink of old moist carpet, the madness of mono-yellow, the endless background noise of fluorescent lights at maximum hum-buzz, and approximately six hundred million square miles of randomly segmented empty rooms to be trapped in ¶ God save you if you hear something wandering around nearby, because it sure as hell has heard you"
Example
More examples"If you're not careful and you noclip out of reality in the wrong areas, you'll end up in the Backrooms, where it's nothing but the stink of old moist carpet, the madness of mono-yellow, the endless background noise of fluorescent lights at maximum hum-buzz, and approximately six hundred million square miles of randomly segmented empty rooms to be trapped in ¶ God save you if you hear something wandering around nearby, because it sure as hell has heard you"
Etymology
From backrooms. Coined by an anonymous poster on the 4chan /x/ board on May 12th, 2019 (see quotation below).
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