to use actions (threatening physical harm, winks, finger-to-the-lips- shusshing) or words (cussing, screaming, or board-room posturing) to diminutize or dominate someone into beta status and/or elevate someone else above them to alpha status
I had a huge argument with my father yesterday over something as stoobid as my washing his car: he totally didn't care about how clean the car was...so much as he cared about wanting to alphabesize me over the fact that he owned the car and I didn't...no matter how shiny I polished it.
by deal April 9, 2006