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Office Space 

when a piece of technology keeps breaking down and it's old and you want to take it outback and smash it to pieces. For those who don't know, Office Space is a movie from 1999.
I want to take this old TV and go Office Space on it!
Office Space by ASAPGirl April 14, 2011

office space 

Best fucking movie ever. The only movie I can keep watching over and over and still keep laughing.
office space by Herbie Hancock June 30, 2004

office space 

<verb> To obliterate, destroy, or otherwise beat the crap out of a piece of malfunctioning office equipment.
If my computer crashes one more time today, I'm going to drag it out to the parking lot and office space it!
office space by Steve July 11, 2003

office space 

the movie, that really is a metaphor for life. You can't work all the time, you can't always follow the same routine. You sometimes need and event hence the death of the hypnosis doctor, to make you have a life change, to make one's life more meaningful
"It's not just about my dream of doing nothing, It'a about all of us"
office space by Dan March 20, 2005

Office Space Effect 

(Noun) The fictional effect depicted in the movie Office Space wherein one is driving on the highway. The lane that you are currently in is moving slowly or not at all, but the lane next to you is going along just fine. You switch lanes, and then the new lane comes to a stop while the lane you were just in begins to move.
Driver: Argh! Why is this lane not moving? All the other ones are!

Passenger: Well why don't you switch lanes?

*Switches lanes and that lane stops*

Driver: We're still not getting anywhere and now that other lane is moving! Damn Office Space Effect!!!

Office Space'd

Verb - Passive Tense

(Note: The active tense version of this is simply Office Space)

Used when someone destroys a piece of (usually outdated) technology for reasons of utter frustrations of trying to get said piece of technology to work.

Made famous in the movie Office Space where three main characters from the movie take their printer, which would constantly display "paper jam" when none could be found, constantly roll paper back and forth between rollers, and display the infamous command PC LOAD LETTER, into an empty field and proceeded to break said printer to pieces with baseball bats.
That scanner was nothing but trouble, so I want and Office Space'd it.
Office Space'd by DarkenPsycho December 15, 2009