hinch.cliffe (v.) to be given a rare opportunity and overcompensate in such an overconfident, unearned and unskilled way that even your horrible boss and people on your team are, like, WTF? Used in a sentence: “Tony joined the long line of infamous criminals who misguidedly insisted on representing themselves at their own trials, during which he revealed his lack of intelligence, and waving “Exhibit A” in the most undisciplined way, inadvertently *hinchcliffed* himself in the foot."