Skip to main content

Spirit Bear's definitions

party fowl

An act that causes you to be excluded from the rotation at a party, usually a faux pas.
John dropped the bong. "Whoah, party fowl!" James exclaimed.
by Spirit Bear October 28, 2004
mugGet the party fowl mug.

penalty hit

1. Being required to take another hit before passing because of a fax pas.
2. Being denied a hit because of a fax pas.
Dude you're not hight enough, take a penalty hit. Puff puff pass.

Dude, penalty hit: We've watched this episode already. Pass.
by Spirit Bear October 28, 2004
mugGet the penalty hit mug.

iWant

iWant describes the urge that Apple customers have to be the first to see, touch, buy, own and use Apple products with partial or total disregard for the product's actual market value, total cost of ownership, usefulness in comparison to similar products on the market and/or other important factors that one would normally consider when making a purchasing decision. May be caused exclusively by or by a combination of peer pressure, charismatic leadership, in-vertising and/or viral marketing.

Consumers of with this predisposition are commonly subjected to the Hippy Tax.
Jerry caved in to iWant and bought the iPhone instead of a more practical and functional Smartphone.

James paid a $200 iWant fee when he bought his iPhone on opening day.

It must have been the iWant that made Kerry pay an extra thousand dollars for an aluminum case and an Apple logo on top of a $400 Intel PC.
by Spirit Bear September 20, 2007
mugGet the iWant mug.

stream

A company in Beaverton, Oregon that was acquired by Solectron, famous for making up reasons for canning people. A great deal of people got their foot in the door of the tech industry by starting as a call center slob at Stream International.
"Dude I got canned from Stream today." "I guess you should try Pinkerton then."
by Spirit Bear January 28, 2004
mugGet the stream mug.

loop you in

To CC someone on a message so that they may keep up with the thread. Sometimes involves making up an excuse to reply on a thread just to get someone in the loop.
I noticed you weren't on the email thread regarding the reorg project so I'll loop you in.
by Spirit Bear July 26, 2007
mugGet the loop you in mug.

Verizon Pause

An awkward pause that follows a question you know the answer to but don't have the stones to answer truthfully.
Smith: We made a decision to change our pricing model, and what we've done is we've allowed people to share data among a number of devices regardless of how many people are on the plan, it's a device model. And we're charging on the megabytes of data that they use.

Moe: Why?

(Verizon Pause)

Smith: People have changed the usage of how they're using their devices. They're moving to using more data, and to ensure the speed and reliability and the access to the network, people are paying for the amount of data that they use.
by Spirit Bear December 17, 2012
mugGet the Verizon Pause mug.

Hippy Tax

1. An amount of money paid in addition to the usual amount with the assumption that some of the proceeds will benefit a popular charity or other cause.

2. Extra money paid for a product which may or not include additional features, products or services aimed at the hippy market.

3. Money paid by those who are predisposed to paying extra for products and services that help them to pretend the 60s never ended.
Cheech paid the hippy tax for his organic milk and soy burger. He spent $25 for lunch, I spent $4.50 on my fast food.

The New beetle is nothing like the old VW Beetle; it's essentially a rounded Golf with a hippy tax added.

The Toyota Prius levies a heavy hippy tax on green consumers who have no concept of total cost of ownership.
by Spirit Bear September 21, 2007
mugGet the Hippy Tax mug.

Share this definition

Sign in to vote

We'll email you a link to sign in instantly.

Or

Check your email

We sent a link to

Open your email