N. The intended effects of a group of insecure people who all set their facebook statuses about the same lame event or about each other in an attempt to look awesome or exclusive.
"Did you see John's, Paul's, George's, and Ringo's statuses about how much fun they had at the roller derby? I wish I was cool enough to get invited to go with them sometime."-Ben
"Don't wish that. It's all just a status apparatus. They're really just a group of four lonely guys who get together and try to rollerskate their lonliness away."--Ken
"Don't wish that. It's all just a status apparatus. They're really just a group of four lonely guys who get together and try to rollerskate their lonliness away."--Ken
by ellejaytea November 5, 2010
Get the Status Apparatus mug.People who stay on the cutting edge of i-phone / smart-phone apps, and who always have the latest app for any imaginable function downloaded to their phone. Rhymes with literati, glitterati, digerati, etc. Has the virtue of also being the Latin for apparatuses, which the apparati, of course, always have in plentiful supply to run all their apps.
Dude 1: "Dude, I just downloaded an app that organizes app-organizing apps according to the compass direction that points from my position to the GPS coordinates of ISP used by the developer of the app."
Dude 2: "Dude, You have officially joined the apparati."
Dude 2: "Dude, You have officially joined the apparati."
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Smartphone/iPhone/Blackberry/PDA. Named after a future device in Gary Shteyngart's novel "Super Sad True Love Story."
by Herbert Ashe January 20, 2011
Get the äppärät mug.(noun)a complex device; or idea used to exploit pop culture for personal or public gain. dealing extremely of complication. a device that is not understood completely by women. an economic system where speculations and debt are the chief commodities. a word that can be used to describe anything that may be regarded with ignorance. sometimes used to define a specific type of person that can take responsbility for the creation or use of a complex object or tool.
(ad)confusticated combobulation apparatusesque:having state of confusion leading to a conspirated condition.
(ad)confusticated combobulation apparatusesque:having state of confusion leading to a conspirated condition.
Bob said, "how many angels can you fit on the tip of a needle."
Jill said, "i don't understand; it's all just a confusticated combobulation apparatus to me."
Jill said, "i don't understand; it's all just a confusticated combobulation apparatus to me."
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Get the apparati mug.A person who is a cog in the wheel of a large, powerful organization, whether that organization is a government or a government-favored corporation.
"The choice between the American and Canadian healthcare models is simply a choice between different two different flavours of statism – each with somewhat different vices, it’s true (e.g., do you prefer higher prices or longer waits?), but ultimately coming down to a matter of the percentage to which control of your healthcare is exercised by people sitting in government offices as opposed to being exercised by people sitting in governmentally-privileged 'private' offices – but in either case by ambitious, avaricious apparatchiks who aren’t you."
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