A fork of Rural Dictionary
Verb- To idealize any objective and pursue it relentlessly. While blindly ignoring friend's advice, logical signs, and rationality. In the end, it most likely is not worthy of pursuing.
"Damien- "I have to keep pursuing her forcefully until the bitter end."
Jon-"Dude you given her everything"
Damien-"Not everything, not yet"
Jon-"You need to stop Gatsby-ing Damien"
When you post something on a social media site, with the only intention, that your crush will notice and like it.
Stop Gatsby-ing so much! You only put that pic on Instagram, because you hoped your crush would see it!