Combination of "faux" and "hygiene" meaning when you half-heartedly wash your hands in a restroom. Your motivation is not actual hygiene but rather the social pressure to appear as if you actually do care.
I rinsed my hands with water and didn't use any soap: That's fauxgiene for you.
Refers to forensic-based t.v. shows that have (for the most part) no basis in truth. They are, in other words, false (hence the “faux”). Found to be highly irritating to actual forensic scientists.
As an actual forensic scientist, I find all of the glaring inaccuracies in those fauxrensic shows to be highly irritating.
Someone that you were in a relationship with but it wasn't quite a relationship. It could have been that:
1) You acted like you were in a relationship, except for lacking the physical.
2) You had the physical aspects of a relationship but outside of the bedroom you were just friends.
3) Almost a relationship except that one of you were in an actual full-blown relationship at the time, and the two of you couldn't quite get over that fact.
We had been sleeping together for three months and hung out together all the time but something was missing when were out on the town. I realized what was missing when we bumped into his boyfriend, which I guess made me his fauxfriend.