An expansion on the acronym fomo, fear of missing out. Fashion fomo is a need and/or want to be up to date with everything current and fashionable, ranging from but not limited to fashion, food, travel and luxury goods. A feeling of anxiety when not being first in or missing out on an item, bargain, place or event.
Being late the warehouse sale of your favourite brand, and missing out on all of the items in your size at half price, if you're now wishing you were a size 18 just to buy that amazing dress left hanging on the rack, you have a serious case of fashion fomo.
by Fashionfomo July 29, 2014
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-Raquel tried going out for a girls night with Becky and Taylor, but had homo fomo when none of the guys were hitting on her, even though she didn't want them to.
-I'll have too much homo fomo if I watch The Bachelor. Too many straight people on one screen to find someone to empathize with.
-I'll have too much homo fomo if I watch The Bachelor. Too many straight people on one screen to find someone to empathize with.
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by SallyAnn Schoenfeld December 23, 2008
Get the fomo-sexual mug.A completely made up slang term that has never ever been used by any living human being other than Lynn Johnston in her horrible comic strip, For Better of For Worse. It is supposedly a hybrid of the word fool and boob.
April Patterson: "You're such a foob, mom!"
Ellie Patterson: "Well, you were an accident."
April Patterson: ::Stunned silence::
Ellie Patterson: "Well, you were an accident."
April Patterson: ::Stunned silence::
by PreMed January 27, 2007
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Or, can be used as a less intense or childish form of fubar.
Or, can be used as a less intense or childish form of fubar.
To run the program, simply cd to the directory you installed it in like this:
user@localhost cd foo/bar
or
The server foobared again?
user@localhost cd foo/bar
or
The server foobared again?
by FinalPhoenix September 23, 2003
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The intensely annoying act of being psychologically and physically compelled to open social networking or email applications at innoppropriate times. Significantly the FOMO phenomena generally occurs during mid-conversation with friends and loved ones, usually resulting in the individual/s involved in the conversation, that are not afflicted with FOMO, experiencing isolated incidents of intense rage.
The intensely annoying act of being psychologically and physically compelled to open social networking or email applications at innoppropriate times. Significantly the FOMO phenomena generally occurs during mid-conversation with friends and loved ones, usually resulting in the individual/s involved in the conversation, that are not afflicted with FOMO, experiencing isolated incidents of intense rage.
Individual 1: "That looks like a good deal"
Individual 2: "It does. Ok, so do you think we should go ahead and book this holiday then?"
Individual 1 (FOMO): <looking down at mobile phone>
-- 30 seconds pass --
Individual 2: "I really hope that phone exploads in your hands and you are left unable to do that, at all, EVER"
-- 10 seconds pass --
Individual 2: "You disgust me to the core"
-- 10 seconds pass --
Individual 1: <looks up from mobile device> "Did you say something to me just then?"
Individual 2: "It does. Ok, so do you think we should go ahead and book this holiday then?"
Individual 1 (FOMO): <looking down at mobile phone>
-- 30 seconds pass --
Individual 2: "I really hope that phone exploads in your hands and you are left unable to do that, at all, EVER"
-- 10 seconds pass --
Individual 2: "You disgust me to the core"
-- 10 seconds pass --
Individual 1: <looks up from mobile device> "Did you say something to me just then?"
by humaoliv August 26, 2013
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2)Short for the music player foobar2000, named after the above definition
2)Short for the music player foobar2000, named after the above definition
by michaeltheurbandictionarian October 23, 2011
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