volunteering

1)The act of giving of yourself to help others. Often followed by a rush of happiness at knowing you've made a difference, but sometimes frustration occurs at going unappreciated or unacknowledged.
However, many people volunteer tirelessly anyway, not wanting or needing any validation or applause for what they do.
2)What many high school students are forced into doing in order to graduate. (In many schools you must log a certain number of volunteer hours to recieve your diploma.)

1)-"Where were you Saturday?"
-"I was volunteering... tutoring little kids in math."
-"Wasn't it lame?"
-"Not really. They even sorta looked up to me. It was cool."
-"Okay then..."

2) She was volunteering at the library every weekend to log enough community service hours to graduate.

by andriod5 October 4, 2005

volunteer highway patrol

A motorist who drives in the fast lane at the same speed as the drivers in the slow lanes, forcing all traffic to slow to what the obstructing driver considers to be a safe speed.

I got pinned down by the Volunteer Highway Patrol for about 10 miles before I could get around him.

by The Demon Prince October 2, 2006

volunteer tree

A tree, not planted by human hands, that begins to grow on residential or commercial property. Unlike trees that are brought in and installed on property, volunteer trees usually spring up on their own from seeds placed onto the ground by natural causes or accidental transport by people. Normally, volunteer trees are considered weeds and removed, but many desirable and attractive specimens have gone on to become permanent residents on many public and private grounds.

The beautiful, giant Red Maple comfortably shielded Claire from the sun as she sat on her back porch. It was nearly 55 years ago that the maple started life as a volunteer tree in her backyard, growing from the soil where a small wooden shed once stood.

by PerverseWriter July 26, 2009

Volunteering

What you do when you get arrested

Attorney: if you don't want to go on probation, you had better get your 24 hours of volunteering done. I recommend seniors and the latino employment fair.

by CAMOBLACKICEXXXXX September 8, 2009

Urban dictionary volunteer editors

Are basically hoes LMAO

The Urban dictionary volunteer editors are gunna refuse to publish this becuase he or she is a hoe

by Excusemewtf December 14, 2018

volunteer henchman

A cynical coward of wantonly sadistic and sub-human moral character who is always desperate to participate in easy victories of any sort. He or she can be seen in the wild slithering out from under some rock to immediately and automatically take the side of all obvious predators and victimizers, against any of their "whining loser" victims.

Can be republican or democrat, because they're both basically the same thing nowadays anyway.

Whatever you do, don't let Duane hear you talk about what your company did to you; all he'll do is call you a "whiner" and paint you as some kind of spoiled and "disgruntled ingrate". That's just the way he is -- he's a volunteer henchman.

by C'est Logique March 16, 2012

volunteurocrat

An organizer who repeatedly dominates position of responsibility and decision making by sheer virtue of having the capacity and resources to volunteer. This should not be confused with rank and file control, which requires broad rank and file participation.

A quarter of the branch is volunteurocrats keeping everything running, and the other three quarters keep quitting in two months because they don't plug into the work, so they have to keep getting easy recruits from campus. The cream of the volunteurocracy gets skimmed off into the nonprofit staff pool every election cycle.

by plotnik March 5, 2020