Similar to the term 'empty suit' used in business circles, it refers to anyone who has a position of seeming importance and looks the part, but is actually ineffectual, incomptent, or stupid. Looks good on the outside but no content or substance.
by Hundo-1 October 22, 2017
Get the empty barrelmug. 1: god will send you to hell for your heathen ways.
2: that ain't nothing but empty threat from a finger gun. Get out here!
2: that ain't nothing but empty threat from a finger gun. Get out here!
by Zombiewriter75 January 15, 2024
Get the Empty threat from a finger gunmug. by Pattybasc February 28, 2018
Get the Empty Tubemug. Derisive term for a sizable number of acquaintances of someone with a dubious reputation who make praising statements about the individual's character/morals, offer to co-sign a loan he's requesting, etc., but who are of comparably-questionable integrity themselves, are also broke, etc., and so their own word and/or reliability is viewed as not being much more of a legitimate guarantee than the promises of the person they're vouching for. In other words, "quantito, but not qualito"... lots of impressive-looking "containers", but with no actual/tangible/legitimate "goods" inside of said containers.
Loan officer: I always feel really wary/suspicious whenever someone of unknown/questionable reputation asks for a loan and offers to bring in a number of other folks to vouch for his character, reliability, and financial responsibility --- "methinks he doth protest too much", plus usually his so-called "witnesses" appear to merely be an "empty-boxcars train of assurers"... they seem no more trustworthy than I would view the loan-requester himself as being, and so their voluminous praise/recommendations hold little significance and inspire little confidence in me regarding whether the loan-requester would actually possess adequate means/motivation/dedication to repay the money. I feel something like how the lady-attorney in "Losing Isaiah" did when she pointed out that the members of the "support group" whom ex-druggie/shoplifter Khaila had named as the people who were assisting her in her efforts to "go straight" and "live clean" had themselves all been former drug-users and/or criminals, and so she felt that they should not be considered to be viable/reliable helpers to prevent Khaila from relapsing.
by QuacksO September 21, 2018
Get the empty-boxcars train of assurersmug. by skymine123 December 3, 2024
Get the Empty out your pocketsmug. Me: I’m gonna go and empty the vactor real quick
Coworker: I already did that earlier today
Me: No the Vactor, my bowels!
Coworker: oh! That Vactor
Coworker: I already did that earlier today
Me: No the Vactor, my bowels!
Coworker: oh! That Vactor
by Jahamez August 28, 2022
Get the Empty the Vactormug. by Isaaccapa January 28, 2024
Get the Empty humormug.