Fauxcha

A Mocha-like drink using hot chocolate mix instead of fancy chocolate sauce for the base. A Fauxcha tastes very similar to a real mocha, except they are significantly cheaper. Not considered a legitimate espresso beverage to any coffee snob, so watch out. Pronounced Foh-Kha.

Bob: Wow! this Mocha is really good!

Coffee Snob: Hehem, that is NOT a Mocha you noob, it's a Fauxcha! loser.

by dumbledouche August 17, 2009

fauxcation

(n.) A vacation that is neither restful nor restorative. Frequently occurs during holiday trips when either work or family obligations affect one's ability to relax.

After our dog ate our host's couch, we were on fauxcation.

My mother's endless nagging turned our beach trip into fauxcation.

by The_Joneses September 28, 2008

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

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

fauxhawk

A full head of hair combed into the middle to fabricate the look of a mohawk.

Ladies want me because I got a fauxhawk.

by Vince Latello September 10, 2003

fauxcaine

Small amounts of baking soda or some other imposter substance, sold as if it was cocaine to unsuspecting or naïve buyers.

Poor Katy. She got ripped off by some dodgy street dealer who sold her $200 worth of fauxcaine. Everyone was so pissed - and now all I can smell is baking soda.

by Tom Terranova September 25, 2007

fauxcade

when the front of a building (let's say usually an apartment complex or a house that is now a rental property) is designed to look imposing or grand when viewed head on, but when viewed critically the rest of the building doesn't live up to the first impression.

Sure, the place I thought about renting had a nice fauxcade with decorative window guards, brickwork, flashy cornices, and elaborate drainspouts, but the sides of the place were covered in cheap, cracked vinyl siding.

by endtime34 April 18, 2010