A trendy device, often popular for no other reason than being popular. Some fadgets may be original innovations, while others may be quite unoriginal, but enjoy success through clever marketing and manipulation of the mass media.
If you're smart enough to be wondering whether or not to buy an iPhone, you're smart enough not to; nor any other overpriced, underperforming Apple fadget.
A gadget that is either useless or already exists which is renamed and relentlessly marketed to fad status with promises of either: 1) weight loss 2) stain/spot removal 3) improved sleep 4) whiter teeth.
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).