A Term coined by Carl Benjamin (AKA Sargon of Akkad), which describes a people or a group of people who tend to thrive off of dishonestly smearing a person's character, through deceptive or misleading interpretations of their actions or words. Often by taking something they said out of context, and representing it as something completely different .
Someone who at a moments notice can pull an excuse for just about anything out of their ass. This happens often when defending a sports team or the reasons someone is dating busted girl. Everyone knows the usual list of excuses and weather they say it or not they are all thinking "man what an excuse merchant".
a person who can create and execute mind blowing guitar riffs
originally said by the prince of darkness himself Ozzy Osbourne when talking about Tony Iommi in an 1980's interview
ozzy osbourne - "..whatever I've said about Tony Iommi in the past, was a lot of anger, a lot of bitterness on both parts, but I've got to be truthful to you, he was one of the greatest all time riff merchants, I mean, he came up with some classic heavy metal riffs"
man: what track is this?, that riff is insane
man 2: it's sabbath!
man: who's the lead guitarist?
man 2: you idiot.. thats Tony Iommi, he's probably metals' best riff merchant!