Someone who is an asshole to everyone regardless of age, gender, religion, political views or sexual orientation.
"I think Mark hates me because I'm Mexican."
"Nah, he's like that to everyone. He's an equal opportunity asshole."
"Nah, he's like that to everyone. He's an equal opportunity asshole."
by radiumbreath January 18, 2010
Get the equal opportunity asshole mug.The cost of choosing one course of action over another. Letting your second best option pass.
Economists tend to measure opportunity cost in terms of money for simplicity's sake. However value isn't always monetary.
Economists tend to measure opportunity cost in terms of money for simplicity's sake. However value isn't always monetary.
At the restaurant, you are presented with a desert menu. Assuming that you only eat one desert, you have the choice between chocolate mouse, ice cream and honey crepes. Let's say you prefer ice cream to chocolate mouse, but honey crepes are your favorite. If you eat a honey crepe, ice cream (which would have chosen had you not had crepes) is your opportunity cost.
Another example would be if two women that you fancied, Sarah and Alice, asked you out and you said yes to Sarah (assuming monogamy), going out with Alice is your opportunity cost.
Another example would be if two women that you fancied, Sarah and Alice, asked you out and you said yes to Sarah (assuming monogamy), going out with Alice is your opportunity cost.
by anthonylebrun November 3, 2008
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I found out that my manager got fired from my company so I opportunitized and applied to take his position.
by bablas June 12, 2012
Get the opportunitize mug.To be fired or forced out of a job due to failure or scandal. The "opportunities" to be "pursued" may include crying, applying for unemployment, eating cheetos, and watching daytime talk tv. A close analogue, usually used in politics or sports, is the departure "to spend time with his family."
In the wake of its failure to meet earnings targets, the company announced that its chief financial officer would be leaving to pursue other opportunities and the company was planning to focus on its core competencies.
by smythy September 15, 2009
Get the pursue other opportunities mug.A car boot is left open and some one steals an item from the inside of it. For example this could be a box of chocolates or your grandma. This would be classed as an opportunity crime.
by Jacob Mir July 7, 2006
Get the opportunity crime mug.A phrase coined by Octomom, Nadya Suleman, to put a positive spin on how she financially provides for fourteen children without working. Little opportunities are generated by pimping one's own children out to the media.
Q - Hey, dude. Why are there so many cameramen on the beach today?
A - Cause the Octomom is taking advantage of one of her "little opportunities" by pretending she actually takes her brood of fourteen to the beach on a regular basis for some good old-fashioned family fun.
Q - Ah! So, she's pimping those poor kids out again.
A - Cause the Octomom is taking advantage of one of her "little opportunities" by pretending she actually takes her brood of fourteen to the beach on a regular basis for some good old-fashioned family fun.
Q - Ah! So, she's pimping those poor kids out again.
by TsuDho November 30, 2009
Get the little opportunities mug.An old Southern term an African-American mother uses to describe an long and sometimes well deserved, ass-whooping in order to warn her child, or others who cross her. This African-American saying, used as a motherly warning, first popped up in the 1930 play Mule Bone by Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston.
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