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fauxbia

1. Fear that an item you have purchased is a fake

2. Fear of fake items
1. Megan had a fauxbia that her $60 Chanel purse was too cheap to be real
by superdougio April 14, 2009
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fauxbia

Mal: "My dad has a phobia of morris dancing and irish jigs"
Me: "There's no such thing, you douche. That's a fauxbia"
by Philistine August 31, 2007
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Fauxbia

The term comes from other words that are already established. "Faux" which is defined as fake, imitation, ersatz.

Common slang word “Bia” which is the "G" rated way of calling a woman/man a bitch.

When putting the two together you are calling someone a "fake bitch." Many times this is used when someone is acting like they are someone/something they are not.

Pronounced: fo'..bee..ah
Kim: Dayum.....did you see the Prada bag that girl was wearing?

Lakisha: Her daddy bought that shit for her fauxbia ass. She has two kids and no man, and she aint even got a job.

Kim: Fo' real?! She is a fauxbia fo' sure!
by Anthony Kranz October 5, 2007
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fauxbait

An attractive woman which looks underaged but actually isn't.
- Oh crap, what did you do man?! She's total jailbait!

- Nah, I know her since kinderschool, she's legal, but a total fauxbait.
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Fauxbies

She's got nice fauxbies.
by 432mm December 4, 2010
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Fauxcial Media

Contrived, inauthentic or misleading use of social media resources such as online communities, blogs, Twitter profiles, Wikipedia entries, Facebook pages, etc. to manipulate or to create a false or misleading perception of a company, organization, candidate or cause.

Fauxcial Media is the "Web 2.0" equivalent of atroturfing i.e., the creation of fake grassroots campaigns in PR/Public Relations.
WHAT CONSTITUTES FAUXCIAL MEDIA:

• Businesses pretending to be bloggers.
• Businesses pretending to be journalists.
• Businesses pretending to be “Joe Blow” in order to flog their products in blog comments.

(Bullet points courtesy of marketingexperimentsblog.com)

EXAMPLES OF FAUXCIAL MEDIA:

- Cisco's Human Network - wrote all Cisco-related Wikipedia entries; had vloggers try to write about the Human Network. Got themselves to #2 in Google organic search

- Whole Foods CEO John Mackey used an alias to ding detractors on forums

- "Wal-Marting Across America" used a real journalist and real photographer, but set them up as simply Wal-Mart fans, traveling across America, parking their RV at Wal-Mart parking lots.

(Examples courtesy of Scott Monty - http://www.scottmonty.com/2008/03/suxorz-worst-social-media-of-2007.html)
by Michael J. Russell January 12, 2009
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fauxcialite

fake socialite. not to be confused with socialite this person is known to be a part of fashionable high society because of his or her regular participation in social activities and fondness for spending a significant amount of time entertaining and being entertained, normally socialites posses considerable wealth, but in all actuality they are poor, low to no class people that who have friends in high places.
socialite: did you hear that tiffany isnt actually rich she's been faking this whole time.
maid: so she's a fauxcialite.
socialite: exactly now fetch me something to drink, consuela.
by mcbillions May 4, 2009
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