Gateway shopping is when you break down to buy "just one thing" after you told yourself you have to stop spending money. Much like breaking the seal when drinking, once you have purchased one item, you'll purchase five more items, spend money you don't have, probably will have buyer's remorse.
Me: I'm not going to spend any more money on leggings and purses. I have to buckle down and save money.
Also me: Ok I've got to go to the mall for just one thing - I need sandals and that's it. That's all I'm buying.
Also Me: Ok this purse looks really with the sandals, but I like that purse too - two purses won't be a big deal. It's just Coach...
My friend: It looks like those sandals sucked you into gateway shopping - you broke the seal!
Also me: Ok I've got to go to the mall for just one thing - I need sandals and that's it. That's all I'm buying.
Also Me: Ok this purse looks really with the sandals, but I like that purse too - two purses won't be a big deal. It's just Coach...
My friend: It looks like those sandals sucked you into gateway shopping - you broke the seal!
by Siouxsie Supertramp July 31, 2021
Get the gateway shoppingmug. The act of shopping around for men without undertaking further action, comparable to window shopping (look but don't touch)
"I'm perfectly happy with my man, but I do like to innocently look around! A little mandow shopping never hurt anybody!"
by Manology December 23, 2009
Get the mandow shoppingmug. a sexy hot beast, with a nice body. he is a daddy, and makes a nice fanfiction. u can picture him dripping wet every morning before breakfast. he has a large, muscular head, and has a sexy chiseled jawline. only idiot wouldn't want to bang ryan shop
by RyanShopIsDaddy May 30, 2016
Get the ryan shopmug. Don't worry we'll be back soon it's a one stop shop.
We don't need to call ch'all guys ,my guy is a one stop shop.
I'm heading to my guy he's a one stop shop.
We don't need to call ch'all guys ,my guy is a one stop shop.
I'm heading to my guy he's a one stop shop.
by Carmanute October 11, 2016
Get the One stop shopmug. The act of visiting the supermarket for "provisions" of the rigor-mortis variety. Useful when it comes to mothers day, for the blood which tends to congeal delicately and superfluously around the anal membrane.
According to maritime law, the crossbow closet must be purged of air before the corpse shopping is begun by Little Moe with the gimpy leg.
According to maritime law, the crossbow closet must be purged of air before the corpse shopping is begun by Little Moe with the gimpy leg.
Corpse shopping shall be done only with a crizal lens wedged between your tear duct and occipital lobe.
by The Phantom Patriot August 2, 2012
Get the Corpse Shoppingmug. Person who uses others knowledge as there own for commercial purposes, without paying person or persons for knowledge accrued
John offered an interview to a candidate through a recruitment agency So that he could find out how to design a square, because he'd never designed a square before, and didn't want to get sacked by his boss for a lack of skills and knowledge he couldn't be bothered to update. So John knowledge shopped the skills from an undergraduate pretending he had a job on offer when he didn't. This practice is called knowledge shopping.
by Samhall June 19, 2015
Get the Knowledge shoppingmug. by anonymous August 5, 2022
Get the Pop-shoppingmug.