(n.) -- Those people in any society who are at a huge economic, cultural or moral advantage based on social constructs, ascribed status and/or nationality.
We always hear about the underprivileged class -- those people who have little money and have to struggle all their lives -- but we seldom hear about the overprivileged class: those who have too much money and never have to struggle at all.
by PRwiz101 January 31, 2011
A book or a CD or an online game that is created or produced after a similar, usually debut work by the same artist or maker.
"Wow, I bought that first game in the series, but I want to buy a follow when it comes out, too."
-- Overheard at a water cooler in Taipei
-- Overheard at a water cooler in Taipei
by PRwiz101 August 10, 2009
"Hey, did you see that thumper sticker on that guy's t-shirt?"
"Wow, the thumper sticker on that woman's t-shirt is cool!"
"Wow, the thumper sticker on that woman's t-shirt is cool!"
by PRwiz101 May 10, 2009
(adj.) - A business marketing plan that allows consumers to know what's behind the entire operation, with no secrets kept inside the proverbial kimono
"The new e-reader runs on an open kimono strategy, and sales are going through the roof."
-- overheard at a watercooler at Tokyo computer firm
-- overheard at a watercooler at Tokyo computer firm
by PRwiz101 August 30, 2009
(N.) -- When you buy a sandwich in a convenience store thinking that from the looks of the meat or fish or vegetable filling facing out to you on the shelf that it will be full of that filling all the way into the sandwich as well. But when you buy the sandwich and unwrap it, it's barely full of the filling at all, and in fact the outer edge is all you get; the inside of the sandwich was basically empty.
''I bought a tuna sandwich at 7-Eleven and there was only a small helping of actual tuna inside -- what a sandtease! It was a completely eye-catching piece of display sales fakery. I hate that!"
by PRwiz101 August 08, 2011
A small town in southern Taiwan, known as Putzu in Mandarin but written as Putz in English on several highway road signs.
by PRwiz101 June 22, 2005
(v.) -- to gaze stupidly or in open-mouthed surprise or wonder at someone from another generation for doing or saying something completely surprising or incomprehensible due to the generation gap.
"Whenever I say something old-fashioned to my teenage sons, they just look at me in a totally befuddled way and then generation gape at me in wide-eyed wonder. 'Oh Dad, please!' is what they are thinking, I'm sure!"
by PRwiz101 February 08, 2012