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      [Noun]  | "glass ceiling" 


      1: an intangible barrier within a hierarchy that prevents women or minorities from obtaining upper-level positions


      Origin: 1984 ;

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       [ "glass ceiling" ]

      1: A level within the managerial hierarchy beyond which very few women and minorities advance.

        * e.g.,  ... Women and minorities have had problems winning promotions to senior management positions due to the glass ceiling. 

       [ "Glass Ceiling" ]

      1: A wrestling term, symbolizing the barricade keeping the perrenial upper-mid carders from main events. Usually used in the sense of backstage politics in wrestling, with one wrestler being accused of holding another down (as in: below the glass ceiling)

        * e.g.,  ... Above the glass ceiling: Triple H 

       [ "Glass Ceiling" ]

      1: When you sit naked on a table with a glass top, and you have someone laying under watching you taking a shit.

        * e.g.,  ... To turn your girlfriend on you would perform a glass ceiling. 

       [ "Glass Ceiling" ]

      1: a solid but invisible barrier against the advancement of women and minorities in the workplace.

        * e.g.,  ... The glass ceiling is still breaking. 

       [ "Glass ceiling" ]

      1: A more accepted and commonly used version of the sexual act of a Cleveland steamer- the 1st party will willingly hold or place seran wrap extremely close, if not on their face. The 2nd party will drop their trousers, and defecate on the seran wrap, thereby creating all of the alleged sensual fun and none of the obvious mess. From the 1st party's point, it will be like looking at one of the great mysterious pleasures of life through a glass ceiling.

        * e.g.,  ... "Come on Tonya, I've always wanted to try the Cleveland steamer" 

       [ "the glass ceiling" ]

      1: A term describing the maximum level a woman or ethnic minority can achieve before it is necessary to be a white male to go further.

        * e.g.,  ... After four years working at Innetec, I have unfortunately hit the glass ceiling. 

       [ "Broke the glass ceiling" ]

      1: To overcome many obstacles to achieve a goal that was previously unattainable.

        * e.g.,  ... Boy 1: Did you ask that girl out on a date yet? 

       [ "stained-glass ceiling" ]

      1: The discrimination which can prevent women from rising beyond a certain point in the church hierarchy.

        * e.g.,  ... "She could never become a bishop because of the stained-glass ceiling." 

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