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Buying the lobster 

Choosing to buy a significantly more expensive item largely because it is better marketed and more ostentatious but which is actually of slightly inferior quality to the cheaper option. Often done on impulse.
Adam: "You know I kinda regret forking out $5000 for this fancy clockwork watch. I need to wind it all the time and my old quartz watch was noticeably more accurate."
Barry: "You spent $5000 on a watch! What were you thinking?"
Adam: "I dunno ... it looked great in the shop window and my credit card made it so easy. I guess I just bought the lobster."
Barry: "I know what you mean, I hate buying the lobster."

Millsrane buying 

When someone incessantly purchases new cars one after the other replacing their old car with a new car. Often the car purchaser will go through reasons as to why they need to purchase the new car. "its better fuel economy", "its got back seats for the kids", "its the snow - I needed something better for the snow", "It will get me more chicks" etc

Not to be confused with ndubz buying where you replace a car on a seasonal basis. e.g. this is my winter car
Dude 1: "Yo did you see Todd's new Scooby in the car park"
Dude 2: "Yeah man its his sixth he is Millsrane buying cars!"
1. Someone who only has sexual encounters when their partner buys them something
2. A prostitute
Buysexual: "I'm buysexual . . . Therefore, if you BUY me something, I'll get SEXUAL."
Buysexual by TheWordGuy4269 April 28, 2011
verb: the act of embellishing the truth for the purpos of inciting others; "stirring the pot"
He told me my old lady was gettin a california cookie from some guy in in the alley. When I went out bust a cap in the bitch, I realized I had been buyead. She was just scoring us some weed.
buyea by jazzmo April 14, 2005

leveraged buyout 

(FINANCE) when somebody buys a corporation using borrowed money ("leverage"), with the expectation that the new owner will able to pay for it from the corporation's own profits.

Kohlberg Kravis and Roberts (KKR) developed the LBO back when Jerome Kohlberg, Jr. and Henry Kravis were still partners at Bear Stearns (1960's). The technique was refined by Michael Milken's methods of underwriting and trading junk bonds. At the same time, corporate raiders and takeover artists like T. Boone Pickens perfected greenmail as a way to make money from failed hostile takeovers.
In constant US dollars, the largest leveraged buyout deal in history was the KKR takeover of RJR Nabisbo for $31.1 billion (1989). In 2006, several deals of even larger size were planned or attempted, but adjusted for inflation, they were not as large.
leveraged buyout by Abu Yahya September 4, 2010

Buying A Buick 

Throwing up in a very violent manner, making the sound "Buuuuuuuick."
"I got so wasted last night...I went home after the party and bought a Buick."
Buying A Buick by kategirl March 20, 2005