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commodity

Any good or service offered as a product for sale on the market.
"That piece of art was brilliant until that company bought it out and sold it as an overpriced commodity."
by cavagrotti May 16, 2006
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commodity

Minority male/female that has no kids, never been married, doesn't live with girlfriend/boyfriend, has more than a G.E.D, who can pay his/her owed debts (okay credit),is over the age of 24, and who is desirable in looks as well as personality.
There are no celeb's that I can think of that would qualify as a commodity.
by Hollywud November 14, 2006
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commodity

Something you have to hav or something you circle your life around.
Most kids today make smoking pot a commodity.
by FlyByrd September 6, 2009
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Commodity

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Hym "You know what else is a commodity? Attention! That's why people are incentivized to horde it for themselves! 'What's why?' you ask? Well, if you are receiving a disproportionate amount of the public's attention, you get to arbitrate WHO gets it OR how they are framed. Look at the morden 'Youtube circuit system' (as I call it). You'll have a guy who occupies a certain space (conceptually) and he will get passed around the circuit that exists by the people who also occupy the same space. Take swole neurologist guy. He got on somebody's show and immediately afterwards started doing the rounds. He was everywhere overnight. Which ties into the Jacob's ladder problem. Jacob's ladder is a fire escape with someone at the top who decides whether or not he let's the ladder down or leaves you to be eaten by the zombies. And that's what good ole' Dr. Peeper Jeeps is really advocates. Not for disaffected young men. But maintaining his (perceived) right to leave you to be eaten by the horde. Hell, he might even cannibalize you himself. Food is scarce in the zombie apocalypse. It's about him deciding whether or not you get to fuck his daughter (conceptually)."
by Hym Iam January 25, 2023
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Commodity Body

A term used on Indian reservations to denote a person who is extremely overweight. Obesity is quite common on American Indian reservations due largely in part to the consumption of monthly USDA commodities under the Food Distribution Program on Indian Reservations (FDPIR) for low-income American Indian households.
Hey Delbert, look at that fry bread girl….she has a major commodity body! I would love to snag her for the 49!
by Puffy Face Grace July 7, 2008
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Commodity Fetishism

A concept coined by Karl Marx referring to society's extreme obsession with material objects.

Commodity Fetishism is everywhere in Western Society today. Just look around around you. All the commotion surrounding Apple releasing yet another iphone with minor improvements. Cars are another example. Inanimate products which are so well known by their particular brand and certain model type to everyone, with most having definitions on urban dictionary even going so far as to define the certain type of person who drives such a model. When in reality the only importance of a car for most people is a sustainable mode of transport that can get you from one place to another. As a guitarist myself I find the guitar world is also guilty of this, many placing excessive importance over brand names (Gibson, Fender etc.), models (Telecaster, Strat, SG, Les Paul etc.) and hell even types of this model (1959 telecaster, Roadworn Strat, <insert famous guitarist here> signature model Les Paul Custom, Standard, Studio, express, 100, 100 elitist etc. etc.). Commodity Fetishism is the explanation why people get worked up for hours comparing the minor variations and specifications of the same 6 stringed instrument that they can barely play.

This behavior is heavily mocked in the character Patrick Bateman from the movie (and book) "American Psycho".
1. "That's bone. And the lettering is something called Silian Rail...
Look at that subtle off-white coloring. The tasteful thickness of it. Oh my God, it even has a watermark..."

- Patrick Bateman's words when comparing his business card with his co-worker's identical looking ones in "American Psycho".

2. "Thanks to commodity fetishism, I got bullied when I was 8 because my parents drove a Ford Fiesta while their parents drove Volvo*. And kids don't even drive...."

*defined on Urban dictionary as "The only car a true pimp would be seen in"
by stingingpaininthebrain June 23, 2014
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Commodity Fetishism

A concept coined by Karl Marx referring to society's extreme obsession with material objects.

Commodity Fetishism is everywhere in Western Society today. Just look around around you. All the commotion surrounding Apple releasing yet another iphone with minor improvements. Cars are another example. Inanimate products which are so well known by their particular brand and certain model type to everyone, with most having definitions on urban dictionary even going so far as to define the certain type of person who drives such a model. When in reality the only importance of a car for most people is a sustainable mode of transport that can get you from one place to another. As a guitarist myself I find the guitar world is also guilty of this, many placing excessive importance over brand names (Gibson, Fender etc.), models (Telecaster, Strat, SG, Les Paul etc.) and hell even types of this model (1959 telecaster, Roadworn Strat, <insert famous guitarist here> signature model Les Paul Custom, Standard, Studio, express, 100, 100 elitist etc. etc.). Commodity Fetishism is the explanation why people get worked up for hours comparing the minor variations and specifications of the same 6 stringed instrument that they can barely play.

This behavior is heavily mocked in the character Patrick Bateman from the movie (and book) "American Psycho".
1. "That's bone. And the lettering is something called Silian Rail...
Look at that subtle off-white coloring. The tasteful thickness of it. Oh my God, it even has a watermark..."

- Patrick Bateman's words when comparing his business card with his co-worker's identical looking ones in "American Psycho".

2. "Thanks to commodity fetishism, I got bullied when I was 8 because my parents drove a Ford Fiesta while their parents drove Volvo*. And kids don't even drive...."

*defined on Urban dictionary as "The only car a true pimp would be seen in"
by stingingpaininthebrain June 23, 2014
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