checkout tart

Someone who works in a supermarket on the checkout, usually a girl, but can also be used as an insulting term for a male checkout worker. Similar to Scanner Monkey

'Jack got a job at the supermarket, he's such a checkout tart!'

by Temet Nosce December 14, 2006

Checkout Catfished

When you get behind someone with few groceries in line and someone else comes along and says "I'm with them" and piles a bunch more groceries on. You saw a glimpse of one shopper, but what you got once you were in line was something entirely different.

"Aww man, that lady just jumped in with a whole other cart"
" Checkout Catfished ..."
"Yup"

by bobbyoldschool August 27, 2013

Checkout Stick

A term to describe someone or something as useless as a grocery checkout lane divider.

"Dont talk to Ethan, he's being an absolute checkout stick right now"

by atvmike73 October 10, 2019

checkout-counter coercion

A.k.a. "point-of-sale pressure". Similar to second-generation enabling, this term refers to a comparably-shameless mooching-strategy that's used on someone when you're both out shopping; it involves knowingly carrying a cancelled/expired credit card or a debit/cash/gift card that has no/insufficient funds on it, and then attempting to use said worthless plastic to pay at the checkout. Well, naturally, when the clerk swipes your card and then regretfully announces that the card was rejected, this awkward and "unexpected" delay creates an acutely-humiliating situation, especially if other shoppers are present. So you first make a great show of looking shocked/flustered/embarrassed, then hastily turn to your shopping-buddy and ask meekly but urgently, "Oh, I'm so sorry --- I forgot/didn't realize that my card wasn't gonna work this time! Do you think you could pay for my purchases just this once, and I'll pay you back as soon as I can?" And then of course, your hapless companion finds himself in a "hanged if you do and hanged if you don't" dilemma --- he can either get stuck with paying off a huge store-bill, or look like an unfeeling jerk in front of all those other customers if he indignantly refuses, especially since it would mean that you would then have to crimson-facedly tiptoe all around the store again to put all of your purchases back on the shelves, plus it would also mean that any money that your friend used for gas to take you shopping will have been wasted, also.

I prudently side-step any incidents of checkout-counter coercion by always making sure to gently-but-firmly tell my shopping-companions beforehand that (1) they will be totally "on their own" about coming up with the funds to pay for their purchases, and (2) I will **not** refund their gas-money if they're unable to obtain their desired items.

by QuacksO August 7, 2018

TJ CHECKOUT

The failure to checkout passed out, lubed up, ass up discreetly snoring while waiting for your trick.

TJ CHECKOUT: Lex Motel 6

by Splenda Daddy May 31, 2009

Wal-Mart checkout

Means you could be helping like 38 people at once but only ever actually help about 2 at a time. Like only using a small percent of your potential.

" Dude this place (restaurant) is like 'Wal-Mart checkout'. A bunch of staff but no one is helping us".

by Jurvis1 October 20, 2015

Checkout Charity Ambush

Being hit up for a charity donation at a store checkout register. Stores know that everyone in line behind you will think that you're a cheap ass if you don't give. Ain't peer pressure great?

John: Wanna go out to a bar tonight?

Rick: Dude, I can't. I just lost my last 5 bucks in a Checkout Charity Ambush at the grocery store!

by Cicerone1 April 28, 2013