1. Someone who visits the scene of a tragedy, like a natural disaster, humanitarian catastrophe, or a warcrime, as if it were a tourist attraction and/or for the photo op.
2. Someone who volunteers as an aid worker at the scene of such a tragedy out of morbid curiosity, a desire to feel heroic, or in order to be able to brag about it, rather than to offer real, skilled humanitarian relief.
3. Well-meaning volunteers who come to perform aid work during humanitarian disasters, but who are not qualified to do so and get in the way of professional medical aid workers, engineers, food aid administrators, and other experienced personnel, often accidentally hindering or undoing the professionals' aid work in order to feel useful.
2. Someone who volunteers as an aid worker at the scene of such a tragedy out of morbid curiosity, a desire to feel heroic, or in order to be able to brag about it, rather than to offer real, skilled humanitarian relief.
3. Well-meaning volunteers who come to perform aid work during humanitarian disasters, but who are not qualified to do so and get in the way of professional medical aid workers, engineers, food aid administrators, and other experienced personnel, often accidentally hindering or undoing the professionals' aid work in order to feel useful.
On the way to deliver much-needed tents and tarps to Port-au-Prince after the earthquake in Haiti, the aid truck could not pass the roadblock at the border between Haiti and the Dominican Republic because the border officials there were swamped with hordes of tragitourists trying to obtain entry visas and asking which hotels to stay in.
by taliesin_myrddin March 9, 2010
Get the tragitourist mug.Combination of 'trashy' and 'shaggy', usually used to describe one's hair but can be used to describe one's general appearance as well.
Traggy hair is not bed-head hair or blown-in-the wind hair, it's uncooperative hair. Despite your best efforts to make it look good, it just hangs out of style and looks poorly groomed.
Traggy hair is not bed-head hair or blown-in-the wind hair, it's uncooperative hair. Despite your best efforts to make it look good, it just hangs out of style and looks poorly groomed.
Whoa, my hair is traggy today - what was my effort worth? I could have just just run my fingers through my hair after getting out of bed or just come in from the wind.
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1. The greviously miscreated second dragon (the first one was even worse) drawn by one Strong Bad (creation courtesy of www.homestarrunner.com) which was originally spelt "Trogdor".
2. Someone or something that has the capability of Burnination and/or has obstervable majesty.
3. A dragon with legs that stands with its spine in the curvature of a question mark, black eyeballs floating above the snout with eyebrows above those, tiny wings and an arm growing directly out of the spine, often referred to by the surname "the Burninator." may also be spelt "the BURNiNATOR" in certain cases.
2. Someone or something that has the capability of Burnination and/or has obstervable majesty.
3. A dragon with legs that stands with its spine in the curvature of a question mark, black eyeballs floating above the snout with eyebrows above those, tiny wings and an arm growing directly out of the spine, often referred to by the surname "the Burninator." may also be spelt "the BURNiNATOR" in certain cases.
by Jonzen Bane May 5, 2003
Get the tragdor mug.when a girl who is known slyly as the "village bicycle" becomes irreplaceably damaged due to the unregulated overuse by all the village boys without consideration to marginal cost, therefore becoming a tragedy.
Hence Billy realised the dark nature of the tragedy of the commons though tainted with roseate spectacles.
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