n. A "can't miss" sale or exchange of goods often taken advantage of by the most frugal, cheapest person you know. A real shopportunity envolves multiple exchanges, layers, relationships, and coupons. This is sometimes mistaken for a scam, and borders on white collar crime.
Cam: "Dude, did you hear about the shopportunity that Goldenstein just scored?"
Mark: "No, what did it entail?"
Cam: "He went and bought 3 Sunday newspapers for the $60 off a glucose monitor coupon..."
Mark: "But, he's not even diabetic."
Cam: "Right, but the Walgreens in Wyoming had the glucose monitor advertized for $30, so he bought 3 of them, gaining $90 in store credit, which he used to buy 9 copies of a video game. He took those 9 copies to Game Stop, where he got $30 in store credit for each copy. He used that to get a PS3, essentially he got it for free."
Mark: "No, what did it entail?"
Cam: "He went and bought 3 Sunday newspapers for the $60 off a glucose monitor coupon..."
Mark: "But, he's not even diabetic."
Cam: "Right, but the Walgreens in Wyoming had the glucose monitor advertized for $30, so he bought 3 of them, gaining $90 in store credit, which he used to buy 9 copies of a video game. He took those 9 copies to Game Stop, where he got $30 in store credit for each copy. He used that to get a PS3, essentially he got it for free."
by dpmarky November 21, 2010
Get the shopportunity mug.The resulting snobbish attitude of hourly-earning, high-end retail workers caused by prolonged exposure to rich, snobbish customers.
Shopholm Syndrome manifests when you are ignored because you don't look as wealthy as the stores usual patrons, snubbed when you ask for something you don't see on the shelves, etc. All this is contempt for you, the poorer shopper, who probably makes as much or more than they do in some office job.
by bobschriner April 20, 2009
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The place where shopkeepers can be observed in their natural habitat late at night. While casual passers by might assume that the shop and its adjoining car park has been secured for the night, "shopkeeper watchers" know that this is the time that they can observe shopkeepers at play.
Within the confines of their secure paddock, they like to expose their bellies to the warm summer evening breeze. Some shopkeepers like to smoke, clear their throats, or scratch their buttocks with a piece of cardboard and/or stare vacantly at those gathered to watch at the shopkeeper zoo.
Within the confines of their secure paddock, they like to expose their bellies to the warm summer evening breeze. Some shopkeepers like to smoke, clear their throats, or scratch their buttocks with a piece of cardboard and/or stare vacantly at those gathered to watch at the shopkeeper zoo.
by HTong March 27, 2007
Get the shopkeeper zoo mug.Look at that whore; she looks terrible, shopworn. Unless she takes better care of herself, she'll hardly get another "client."
by malamed February 3, 2014
Get the Shopworn mug.Shopping + Supporting. The act of purchasing a good or service that also benefits another cause. For example: Buying a pair of shoes from Toms gives a pair to a child in need.
by UrbanVeggie December 30, 2015
Get the Shopporting mug.A far-right evangelical Christian YouTuber who is notorious for his motorcycle-humping, incoherent babbling, empty legal threats against his "debate" opponents, insulting his opponents instead of actually backing up his claims in a debate, his love for Conservapedia, and most of all, his unhealthy obsession with atheism. He claims to have "evidence" to prove that atheism is wrong, but in reality, all he does is shout the exact same argument again and again: the Reversed Burden of Proof.
Typical Shockofgod "debate"
Shockofgod: (having a Shock-gasm) "THERE IS NO PROOF OR EVIDENCE THAT ATHEISM IS TRUE AND CORRECT! THERE IS NO PROOF OR EVIDENCE THAT ATHEISM IS TRUE AND CORRECT! THERE IS NO PROOF OR EVIDENCE THAT ATHEISM IS TRUE AND CORRECT! THERE IS NO PROOF OR EVIDENCE THAT ATHEISM IS TRUE AND CORRECT! THERE IS NO PROOF OR EVIDENCE THAT ATHEISM IS TRUE AND CORRECT! THERE IS NO PROOF OR EVIDENCE THAT ATHEISM IS TRUE AND CORRECT! THERE IS NO PROOF OR EVIDENCE THAT ATHEISM IS TRUE AND CORRECT!"
Opponent (who uses common sense): I'm sorry Shock, but that's not how burden of proof works. You can't prove a neg-
Shock: FATTY! Your argument is invalid, you stupid, ugly, cowardly commie! I declare VICTORY. (boots opponent off the mic)
(Opponent rejoins) I'm back.
Shock: How DARE you hack back into my debate room?! I WILL SUE YOU!!!!
Opponent: Yeah, right.
Shockofgod: (having a Shock-gasm) "THERE IS NO PROOF OR EVIDENCE THAT ATHEISM IS TRUE AND CORRECT! THERE IS NO PROOF OR EVIDENCE THAT ATHEISM IS TRUE AND CORRECT! THERE IS NO PROOF OR EVIDENCE THAT ATHEISM IS TRUE AND CORRECT! THERE IS NO PROOF OR EVIDENCE THAT ATHEISM IS TRUE AND CORRECT! THERE IS NO PROOF OR EVIDENCE THAT ATHEISM IS TRUE AND CORRECT! THERE IS NO PROOF OR EVIDENCE THAT ATHEISM IS TRUE AND CORRECT! THERE IS NO PROOF OR EVIDENCE THAT ATHEISM IS TRUE AND CORRECT!"
Opponent (who uses common sense): I'm sorry Shock, but that's not how burden of proof works. You can't prove a neg-
Shock: FATTY! Your argument is invalid, you stupid, ugly, cowardly commie! I declare VICTORY. (boots opponent off the mic)
(Opponent rejoins) I'm back.
Shock: How DARE you hack back into my debate room?! I WILL SUE YOU!!!!
Opponent: Yeah, right.
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