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
When people from northern europe travel to Africa to see the poverty and get a kick out of reality, in order to put their everyday life 'in a bigger perspective'.
"So has he been out saving the world with Bono the past 4 months?"
"No, I think he's just been shopping perspectives.."
"No, I think he's just been shopping perspectives.."
by The Love Cats March 26, 2010
"The only restaurant at shopping town mall is that creepy China express."
"Why go to shopping town when you could do literally anything else."
"Why go to shopping town when you could do literally anything else."
by Dear god why March 09, 2016
Someone (usually a husband) who is told to plop himself down in a chair in the mall while his wife (or girlfriend) shops.
by BillyBooDozer July 12, 2022
Slang for an experienced bike mechanic.
It takes several years to become a shop rat. Only after spending thousands of hours building bikes, building wheels, rebuilding suspension forks and shocks, setting up derailleurs, replacing bottom brackets, rebuilding hubs, matching chainrings/cranksets/cassettes, and bleeding every type of hydraulic brake system does one become a shop rat.
A shop rat is the guy/gal you want to talk to about your bike's issues. They've seen every possible problem a million times over and know how to fix it professionally and quickly. They also know secret repair tricks that you'll never find in a service manual or on YouTube.
The opposite of a Tool Box Ted.
It takes several years to become a shop rat. Only after spending thousands of hours building bikes, building wheels, rebuilding suspension forks and shocks, setting up derailleurs, replacing bottom brackets, rebuilding hubs, matching chainrings/cranksets/cassettes, and bleeding every type of hydraulic brake system does one become a shop rat.
A shop rat is the guy/gal you want to talk to about your bike's issues. They've seen every possible problem a million times over and know how to fix it professionally and quickly. They also know secret repair tricks that you'll never find in a service manual or on YouTube.
The opposite of a Tool Box Ted.
I spent 10 years as a shop rat in a Colorado bike shop.
The main Pinkbike guys all used to be shop rats for something like 10+ years before their current jobs.
The main Pinkbike guys all used to be shop rats for something like 10+ years before their current jobs.
by BB30 May 16, 2020
by Tankthethinker May 19, 2019
A bucket shop is a company that sells a coat of arms usually with the inaccurate name of "family crest" associated with the customer's surname nonetheless if the customer in question can claim a link to the original armiger. You can often tell if a coat of arms is from a bucket shop by looking if it has the customer's surname in the motto scroll instead of a real motto.
Tim Johnson unknowingly bought a bucket shop coat of arms associated with his surname Johnson off a family crest website.
by the real Ioseb August 24, 2022