A joking or mildly insulting way to describe a programmer who relies heavily on long chains of if / else statements instead of using better programming structures.
This codebase was clearly written by an if-else merchant — it’s just nested conditionals all the way down.
by ŠibucaNiggi November 5, 2025
Get the if-else merchantmug. Negative term for a character (usually fictional) in which the only compelling part of their storyline is its conclusion. Popularized by the great minds hard at work in mediatok.
Guy 1 (awesome, full of life and vigor): Lelouche has W themes and philosophies but he's lowkey a conclusion merchant.
Guy 2 (moron narcissist, possibly evil too): Trying to categorize everything you enjoy like this is reductive and stupid.
Guy 2 (moron narcissist, possibly evil too): Trying to categorize everything you enjoy like this is reductive and stupid.
by bippitybopman23 August 13, 2025
Get the Conclusion merchantmug. The catastrophic art of obliterating something so thoroughly-so viciously-that not even the memory of it’s former shape survives
by Calcium Stool June 7, 2025
Get the The Skull Merchant Treatmentmug. Someone who plays the fifa video game nearly every day and uses the Griddy emote after every goal scored. They do this so that the opponent rage quits or breaks a controller.
Man these fucking Griddy merchants! They must get zero pussy. I can just smell the stench through the mic.
by Dj Ivis Lover June 16, 2023
Get the Griddy Merchantmug. by wordsinabox December 10, 2010
Get the Gravy Merchantmug. by Dj Ivis Lover June 16, 2023
Get the Bunda Merchantmug. An extremely irritating breed of people (specifically teenage males) whom adopt a mullet. Other than this obvious physical characteristic, they are identifiable by behaviours such as crowding around the PureGym bench for hours and attending private school.
Jason: “How come you were at the gym for so long?”
Diego: “ Oh a group of fucking mullet merchant ls where using the benches.”
Jason: “Oh, I fucking hate them mullet merchants”
Diego: “ Oh a group of fucking mullet merchant ls where using the benches.”
Jason: “Oh, I fucking hate them mullet merchants”
by Arbitratingurbtch March 7, 2024
Get the mullet merchantmug.