A person who buys everything without thinking about it, or because she/he simply needs to buy something to be happy.
A company's best friend
Consumerzombie: "I am a big fan of DLC for games, these are awesome! I bought every single DLC to date, because these make games great"
Smart Person: "Damn you are a consumer-zombie, buying this cheap crap without thinking. DLCs are just the new way to milk money from dumb people like you.."
The MOST annoying scam on Urban Dictionary all the time! They pretend to give you a 1000 dollar Wal-Mart card and every third time you open a gift it has one. There are a bunch of fake comments like “one for sale one for me yeah” and “now i can buy Xbox” too easy to figure out. NEVER accept the card unless it’s a fake account.
an economic term for the benefit you get (or retain) when you obtain something for less than you think it is really worth.
I got a new Gizmondo for 100 pounds and I would have paid up to 200 so I had a lot of consumer surplus.
That company has a monopoly so they jack up the prices to erode my consumer surplus.
When you have to pee in a movie but don’t want to miss anything, and must do the following mental equation: will the amount I have to pee cause enough discomfort to diminish my attention capacity for the remainder of the movie to an extent which is greater than the amount of the movie I would miss by making a mad dash to the restroom.
I saw Satantango last night, wonderful film but by the 5th hour I had to start doing pee calculus.
Short-hand for the word floccinaucinihilipilification, meaning the estimation of something as valueless (encountered mainly as an example of one of the longest words in the English language).