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Bookivore 

An individual with a particular fondness for the taste of paper, ink and bindings or who just likes to read.
After gaining thirty pounds, Kristy, a devout bookivore, was instructed by her doctor to cut back on the cookbooks and adopt a diet of self-help books and yoga mat instruction booklets.
Bookivore by ImaBookivore March 24, 2012
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university bookstore 

a building on a college campus which magically makes all merchandise placed within its walls cost two to three times as much as it would elsewhere.
When I found the chunk of plastic known as a 'contact lens case' priced at $5.99 in our university bookstore, I went into a rage and drove my car through the front window.
university bookstore by elemental February 24, 2006

Bookstore Chic 

A type of formal attire that empowers an individual to look elegant yet allows their personality to shine through, and is particularly fitting for bookstore weddings. Think, Woody Allen meets James Bond, or a cross between Daisy Buchanan and Beyonce.
Uncle Jesse, you look so "bookstore chic", any chance you will be dancing the night away at a bookstore wedding tonight?
Bookstore Chic by Hey Buddy!!! September 15, 2013

Bookstore Meat

people will only begin to understand it if they accept the bookstore meat
“You want some bookstore meat Francesca?”
“What’s bookstore meat Taylor”
“Just accept it and you’ll see the glory 🥩 “
Bookstore Meat by Bookstore meat October 17, 2020
A Person who is so excited to add any and every book to their existing library, they exhibit psychotic rants of scoping out books wherever they are, then posting it on social networks!
I just found all these cool books in some lobby that are just right for my collection! I feel like a total BOOKWHORE!
BOOKWHORE by Cathk March 26, 2011

bookstore 

A horrible, horrible place located on college campuses throughout the United States. One of the few places in the nation where highway robbery and wallet rape is still legal and encouraged. When you walk in be prepared to drop $200 on a stupid hard cover book that you will use at most for three months and then never again (note: this is per class). Prior to walking in, be sure to savor the last few steps of pain free existence for the next several days, because once you walk out you will feel anally pillaged and violated.
John: "Dude are you ok I see you are walking with a gimp?"

Steve: "I will be fine in a couple days. My asshole just needs to recover from the pounding it took at the bookstore. I mean $230 for a book? I wouldn't even pay that much for sex let alone some stupid book."

John: "I know what you mean man. I was ravished by the bookstore just last week."
bookstore by SHUPat January 24, 2012

Bookstore bum 

A person who regularly spends several hours inside a bookstore without the intention of ever buying anything.

The most despicable behaviors of a bookstore bum include but are not limited to: pulling umpteen magazines off the rack and getting oily disgusting fingers on most pages then leaving every molested book and magazine adrift, reading in the prone position in the middle of an aisle, and wasting away sleeping in a chair that was provided for actual customers.
Actual bookstore customer: "I would love to take a look down the non-fiction section but there is a grown man sprawled out in the aisle like a child while reading Harry Potter. They've got to do something about these bookstore bums!"
Bookstore bum by JMoney2000 May 15, 2014
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Also used to describe establishments where alternative foods and products are sold, i.e. natural food stores.

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"I'm heading out to the crunchy store to pick up some fair trade chocolate and tea tree oil, do you need anything?"
crunchy by EBC July 11, 2007
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murderhobo 

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Steve: I'd like to roll a strength check against strangling the orphan.
Dave: I call dibs on the dog.
DM: You murderhobos disgust me.
murderhobo by Loup&S September 9, 2021
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A whale is typically identified at first by a whale hunter on the sales team, but often requires cross-discipline participation in order to close; this includes assistance from operations, engineering, creative, client success, and business development teams.
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Whale by FQ_GFY February 3, 2020
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Todd: He's just a concrete cowboy.
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