Meanings
plural Spiders Georgs
- InternethumorousA notional extreme outlier in a population; originally characterized as a cave-dwelling hermit who eats 10,000 spiders per day and thus skews the statistical average for all humanity.
He's officially become the "Spiders Georg" of world leaders.
2023 August 15, Madison Hall, “The average US president has been charged with 2 felonies now, thanks to Trump”, in Business Insider2 more examples
“The consistent pattern is that the most common number is zero. Most people do not transmit,” said Jamie Lloyd-Smith, another infectious disease specialist, sounding a bit like the statistics meme Spiders Georg.
2020 June 3, Lissa Harris, Phillip Pantuso, Roger Hannigan Gilson, “Coronavirus Roundup: Superspreaders May Account for Most COVID-19 Transmission”, in The RiverOn the day the post was made, the world population was 7,252,764,262 [9]. That would mean that Spiders Georg would have to eat approximately 2.176x10¹⁰ spiders per day.
2024, Kai Jac Cordes, “How Many Spiders Would Spiders Georg Have To Eat?”, in Journal of Interdisciplinary Science Topics, volume XCI, number 24
Origin
From a 2013 Tumblr post by Max Lavergne inventing a satirical explanation for a popular urban legend claiming that the average person swallows three spiders a year: "Spiders Georg, who lives in cave & eats over 10,000 [spiders] each day, is an outlier adn^([sic]) should not have been counted."
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Spiders Georg. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Spiders%20Georg
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