(n.) An employee who nobody likes to work with, nobody enjoys to be around but for whatever reason one or a few very powerful people want them there anyway.
Well, the Ted Cruz hire finally got caught stealing from the employee fridge but even then nothing will be done about it.
by arf79 June 06, 2024

An individual who knows just enough about politics to repeat a talking point, but not enough to debate political issues from a neutral point of view. This is proven when they try to elaborate and defend their talking point.
"I feel like I'm babysitting these Trumpy Bears, because when I try to explain anything they fall back to the language that Limbaugh gave them, that even they themselves don't even understand."
by arf79 June 24, 2020

Willful ignorance, a heavy sense of entitlement with a refusal to take responsibility for one's own actions, encouraged by others with the same condition and reality shows. See: narcissism.
"We always got toxic femininity from the customers coming out of the yoga studio a few doors down." (true story)
by arf79 July 05, 2022

1) A person who is so proud of their ignorance that they don't want to upset it by learning anything new.
2) Incidentally, a person who was born between the years 1945 until around 1962.
2) Incidentally, a person who was born between the years 1945 until around 1962.
Until younger politicians get elected and stop them, the Baby Boomer generation is determined to dismantle everything great that the Greatest Generation built.
by arf79 June 02, 2021

by arf79 September 14, 2024

A person who doesn't handle failure well. Instead of recognizing one's limitations to take an effort to grow oneself, this "alpha" copes with their limitations by adopting a foolish value system that is based on the observations of David L. Mech of wolves (not "African dogs", wolves) in captivity. He has since denounced that his discoveries applies to humans, because humans -- outside of prison -- do not live in captivity. In the wild, this same species of wolves have only the parent/child paradigm rather than this "alpha" crap that insecure men have adopted like it's their DC/Marvel comics super power, when their only "super power" is denial of the truth.
Therefore, an alpha is a person who does not handle failure well.
Therefore, an alpha is a person who does not handle failure well.
by arf79 April 01, 2023

(n.) A person who emulates an unearned entitled demeanor, like an Alpha-type person, but by ignoring the lazy, dull reality of their personally they confidently follow the herd at their own peril.
Poor alphaschmucks camping out for Black Friday sales, unaware that you can find pretty good deals online too.
by arf79 December 18, 2020
