consumerism

1. The practice of conspicuously buying flashy, expensive items and expecting them to fill the voids in one's life.

2. A pejorative used to malign people who enjoy material luxuries, implying that it's impossible for a person do so without having an unhealthy fixation on them. Usually used as a sour grapes excuse to hate people who can afford more luxuries than one's self.

1. "Tiffany keeps spending all of her money on expensive designer clothing. When will she realize that it's personality, not consumerism, that wins friends?"

2. "Ugh, did you see Ted's new BMW with heated leather seats, a GPS navigation system, and a 6-disk CD changer? Anyone who would buy luxuries is obviously a disgusingly shallow and materialistic consumerist."

by Icarus3 November 3, 2005

consumerism

A seriously over-rated form of modern day cult of commerce, whereby people buy goods. This has led to a rise in needless temptation as well as popular culture, which in turn results in mindless youths sinking into the morass of peer pressure and attention-seeking behaviour, all for the name of cold, hard cash.

Otherwise, a desirable practice.

Humans think consumerism is the key to a better life.

by gad01 May 24, 2008

Consumerista

A caste in the New World Order in which Celebutantes (people famous for being famous) decide what is worthy of coolness, a commodity that is then traded for the cool product or service through the coin-of-the-realm (be it dollars, pounds sterling, euros, yen, etc.). The Consumerista is a vital but lower ranking member of society, as they are not famous and therefore do not matter except as nodes on the global fiscal economy. The Consumerista buys what the Celebutante thinks is worthy of buying, though the actual act of buying is important in a quasi-religious sense to the consumerista but not to the celebutante, who are too busy living as royalty has always lived: pampered and overindulged. Occasionally, to prevent a revolutionary act, a common "coming together" of the consumerista and their idols is staged to benefit starving children in nations that are "slave states" in all but name, receiving microfinancing loans to dig holes for water and once in a great while given solar powered computers "for educational purposes" by The Gate, which are usually sold for rice to eat.

"Courtney is such a good little consumerista. She read that the Kardashians use Heinz Ketchup just like the poor, and she's switched brands, blogged about the experience, and bought some stock in Heinz. She even donated a case to the South Africans--though they sent it back with a note saying they preferred Hunts."

by GPurvis November 4, 2013

Anally Consume

The act of consuming an object with the anus.

I think John's presentation would have been better if he had anally consumed a live parakeet instead of just feeding it.

by Lawrence K. February 10, 2010

Gra'ask the Consumed

Zavala: Mobilizing fireteam for Operation, uh... Babydog? Why does this say Babydog? I must have forgotten to reboot the strike name generator.
Devrim: Operation "Babydog?" Well, it has a certain ring to it, huh?
Zavala: Yes... "Babydog". Well, the strike protocol is already running. Can't stop it now. Devrim?
Devrim: Yes, sorry. Fireteam "Babydog" the Taken are polluting the EDZ. We need to determine the source of — Haha! — I'm sorry, I can't... Stand-by, fireteam.
Devrim: One of my teams reported Taken energy infecting the water supply. Our purification tech can only do so much. If the contamination spreads, people will die.
Ghost: Destroying the Blight destroyed the Taken miasma. This area's no longer infected.
Devrim: Good work. There's bound to be more than one.
Ghost: We're making good progress, but Taken energy readings are still off the charts.
Devrim: There must be a source. The Cabal hurt us, Guardian, but the Taken could ruin the EDZ forever. Put an end to

Sacrifice yourself to Gra'ask the Consumed

by ThatsDooDoo September 19, 2020

consume

Consume cun-SOOM- Verb:

1) In fantasy football, to pass someone in either the total score of a matchup or in the projections.

2) In fantasy football, when a running back or receiver gets a heavier workload than the usual starter.

Exp: "The Shady Bunch have consumed the Brown Town Legends in the projections after the defense glitch."
Exp: "Kareem Hunt has consumed Nick Chubb, leaving him a bum-ass nigga."

by Hoss171717 November 15, 2019

consumerize

To take a product and prepare it for sale to the mass market.

Microsoft helped to consumerize home computers, with the release of Microsoft Windows; a simple, user friendly operating system.

by Fargen December 4, 2007