A fork of Rural Dictionary
A distant acquaintance is someone who you wish to fuck the ever-living shit out of on a regular basis and who one day you will want to marry.
I heard Helayna wants Arius to be her distant-acquaintance
People you regularly meet in an elevator at your school or workplace, and nod/smile awkwardly, but don't know their names, or anything else.
My friend wants to invite her elevator acquaintance to her wedding, but doesn't know his name.
It's the friend zone of friendships. Unlike friend-zoning, which is when someone you want to be your lover says you should just be friends. Acquaintance zoning is when someone who you want to be friends with doesn't even want to be your friend. This can be way more degrading than friend-zoning, usually because being friend-zoned most of the time is because a person knows you more as a friend than a lover. But an Acquaintance Zone is when a person doesn't even want to get to know you and develop a relationship as friends, which can be way more degrading than rejecting a romantic relationship.
"Hey dude! What's up?"
"Could you stop messaging me, please? We are just acquaintances."
"So you just Acquaintance Zoned me?"