Faux (French term for fake) + Faux Pas (A violation of accepted social norms) + Pause = Faux Pauz
Fake Pause? Open to your interpretation, naturally.
Among others, some interpretations of Faux Pauz include:
1. A fake pause, meaning your life still goes on while you hang around/pause.
2. Work is never-ending, thus a faux pauz (or a fake pause) in life would assist one in unwinding and savouring the little things.
3. Faux Pauz militates against the convention that life is a rat race. Life is more than that.
Fake Pause? Open to your interpretation, naturally.
Among others, some interpretations of Faux Pauz include:
1. A fake pause, meaning your life still goes on while you hang around/pause.
2. Work is never-ending, thus a faux pauz (or a fake pause) in life would assist one in unwinding and savouring the little things.
3. Faux Pauz militates against the convention that life is a rat race. Life is more than that.
by skii c. April 23, 2011

the anger/depression that mounts as a direct result of growing up in Downtown Fort Myers, Florida as a person of "subculture."
by BDGHOUL August 19, 2017

When you arrive for your doctors appointment and instead of seeing your doctor, they send in nurse practitioner to diagnose and treat you yet still bill the appointment at the same fee.
by anonymous January 6, 2024

A car that, from a distance, looks like a police car due to the type of car, or from being an old cop car that never had the spotlight removed, but is not.
by Cherry Cola September 15, 2016

Uncertainty about the genuineness of someone's affections.
She is always inviting me to lunch, texting, bringing small gifts, but there is something in her eyes which makes me wonder - is she friend or faux?
by Monkey's Dad October 6, 2020

The celebration of Christmas on a day other than December 25, usually with your in-laws, because you are celebrating on Christmas Day with your family (or vice versa).
by MauxJaux December 29, 2013

Someone who fakes having OCD (obsessive compulsive disorder). Some of these parasites say the the D doesn’t mean disorder. These people are turds. They think ocd means being a perfectionist. We gotta weeed em out.
by Lydtehsquid December 21, 2018
