Institutionalised 

Use to describe someone or a something performed that has been taken very seriously and with lots of dedication. Name originated from elite sports people who live at an institution where they are bred to do things like robots.

Gav: "I eat right, sleep right, train everyday"
Alex: "That's pretty institutionalised of you"

Rego: "I had to study 5hours everyday for that test"
Gav: "Yeah you are pretty institutionalised"

Institutionalised by Gav800 September 22, 2005

Institutionalised Bullying

In US English it would be institutionalized bullying. It is what Will McKenzie had to go through on The Inbetweeners when he did his work experience at a garage instead of at a local newspaper. The guys at the garage would humiliate and degrade Will and eventually order him out for a pint. After they had the pint and left the pub they crept up behind him, pulled his trousers and shirt down so you could only see his underpants and placed him in the boot of their car. They then drove him to a pond and threw him into the water practically naked. Now thats some institutionalised bullying for you.

Will (as character): Please my allergies!!!
*SPLASH*
Garage worker: Bet you wasn't expectin' that was ye mastermind. See you t'morra.
Will (as naratar): Institutionalised bullying wasn't quite the work experience I had in mind. But I knew how to deal with bullies, I got my mum to tell the teacher.
Principal: HAHAHAHAHA

Institutionalised Bullying by TheFunnyGuy88 May 7, 2023

institutionalized incompetence 

When a dysfunctional institution teaches and embraces incompetence as though it is the pinnacle of competence because it is so embedded in its culture.

How does one truthfully explain something like the post office or the prison industrial system to a child without in some way making a reference to institutionalized incompetence?

institutionalized incompetence by Dr Bunnygirl June 21, 2020

Institutionalized

When you're sitting in your room daydreaming and your mom thinks you're on drugs, but all you want is a Pepsi and she won't give it to you and thinks you need professional help.

Institutionalized you're the one that's crazy

Institutionalized by RickyChanning September 17, 2018

institutionalized

1. What a military service person becomes when they've re-enlisted so many times, and have spent so many years in the service, they no longer feel they would be safe or can make a life outside the military installation's fence. They also can no longer relate to civilian life-style or understand it anymore. 2. What a convicted criminal becomes when they've spent so many years behind bars away from life outside the prison walls.

1. After 8 years in, we knew our son had become institutionalized when he expressed he didn't want to get out because he felt military service was the only guarantee to a secure and stable future. 2. After spending 20 years in prison, Lazy Eyed Larry was paroled, but he had a hard time adjusting to life on the outside because he had become institutionalized.

institutionalized by Vincent Trace July 27, 2008

institutionalized panhandling 

The act of an institution or charity hiring a staff of commissioned college students that stand in the street wearing branded shirts, passing out sympathy- or fear-inducing literature, and holding clipboards to forcibly solicit donations.

A: Aww man, the sidewalk is blocked up by 5 people all wearing the same green shirt, this can only mean Greenpeace is engaging in institutionalized panhandling again.
B: Quick, pretend you're on your cell phone and whatever you do do not make eye contact.

institutionalized panhandling by rion harmon June 19, 2008

institutionalist

a) someone who institutionalizes (i.e defines in a scholarly, convoluted terms a non-scholarly, common, ubiquitous concept

b) an offensive term for an academic scholar

boy a) was Karl Marx an institutionalist?

boy b) yes. he was an institutionalist in the fields of, if I am not mistaken, moral politics and political morality. And mind you, he was an academic scholar at a German university.

institutionalist by Uncle Dimma November 1, 2012