One who excels at doing nothing while appearing busy to others. The expert can fool co-workers and bosses alike.
In her sales job, Beth is required to hit daily call goals in order to meet expectations and keep the monkeys off her back. By dialing mostly disconnected or fax numbers, Beth's sales director is completely fooled and regularly congratulates her on hitting or exceeding goal. Beth is seen as successful and often referenced as an example for "activity pays". Beth has mastered being a suspended activity expert at work.
by pseudo-ninja May 13, 2015
by sunflowerseed April 16, 2014
A person, usually but by no means always a man, who can be relied upon to hijack any topic of conversation to parade their own knowledge of the subject, however sketchy that might be.
Examples:
Person: This is a great sandwich, is there avocado in here?
Badger Expert: I know a bloke who imports avocados and he was saying that the harvest this year is very poor because of new water extraction rules (continues interminably)
Person: I heard David bought a boat now he has a new job
Badger Expert: I’ll tell you about owning a boat; my mate has two up on the East coast and he says the most interesting thing is (continues at length)
Person: There was a dead badger on the road outside my house this morning
Badger Expert: Badgers, is it now? I read a long blog by the fellow in charge of gassing badgers for the Environment Agency and the thing most people don’t realise is (continues, possibly with diagrams)
Examples:
Person: This is a great sandwich, is there avocado in here?
Badger Expert: I know a bloke who imports avocados and he was saying that the harvest this year is very poor because of new water extraction rules (continues interminably)
Person: I heard David bought a boat now he has a new job
Badger Expert: I’ll tell you about owning a boat; my mate has two up on the East coast and he says the most interesting thing is (continues at length)
Person: There was a dead badger on the road outside my house this morning
Badger Expert: Badgers, is it now? I read a long blog by the fellow in charge of gassing badgers for the Environment Agency and the thing most people don’t realise is (continues, possibly with diagrams)
For God’s sake don’t mention beekeeping to Julia’s dad, he’s a noted badger expert
I was just telling Merlin about that house we looked at and I got twenty minutes of badger expertise on the finer points of property law
I was just telling Merlin about that house we looked at and I got twenty minutes of badger expertise on the finer points of property law
by J Lewis-Partnership September 2, 2021
by Matt1997 June 19, 2011
-Do you know Mike? He is a columnist and an alternative expert! -No I dont, and what do you mean with alternative expert. - He writes columns filled with facts, that has no relevance or is altered, but when you read it, it sounds good .
by Shoreline1 April 3, 2017
An exaggerated trust in "experts" to the detriment of one's own critical thinking; a neediness for "experts" to validate a course of action, else that action should be suspect; a dependence on "experts" that suggests a lack of confidence in oneself; a worldview that is over-reliant on "experts." "Expertists" affirm expertism and will likely ridicule those who reasonably question "experts."
Expertism characterized the Covid era, as gullible people unquestioningly followed ever-changing guidance from "experts."
by The Big Easy Conservative July 17, 2023
The Bitch Expert was a mysterious person who studied bitches and their behavior. They gave the best definitions regarding the bitch species and their ways of life, as well as the many different species of bitches that roam our planet. One of the definitions they wrote was the term defining Obedient Bitch. They have been inactive since August 31 of 2019. What happened to them is unknown.
Rumor has it that the Bitch Expert was assassinated by an angry feminazi, but this rumor was never confirmed. Below is a police sketch of what the Bitch Expert may have looked like.
by Queen Of Urban Dictionary May 27, 2022