Adjective: of a quality often acceptable to both professional and consumer users. Esp. referring to electronic equipment (camcorders, tape decks, etc.)
I wanted something nicer than a $500 consumer camcorder, but I couldn't afford a $50,000 professional camcorder, so I bought a $2,000 prosumer camcorder.
A professional consumer. Is a consumer (i.e. buys a lot of gear and equipment) but only buys professional standard equipment.
Not necessarily a professional themselves, for they may be punters rocking expensive, high quality gear.
Prosumer: I just bought a Canon MkIII 5D to take photos for facebook.
Mate: You're a dickhead. You really didnt need a camera that good just for facebook. ffs.
Prosumer: I'm looking for a new bike, any ideas?
Mate: Maybe go and get a Giant with 105 componentry; it should do the trick!
Prosumer: Mate, cmon. If i'm going to get a bike i'll prosume and get something with super record.
An amalgam of the words proactive and consumer. Literally a consumer who becomes active to help correct and better the goods and services found in the marketplace at any given time.
Also a consumer who helps design or customize the products they purchase.
Coined by Alvin Toffler in his book "The Third Wave" in 1980.
The design team tapped a keycustomer group of prosumers in seeking to understand the photography market's needs in the next 3 years.
PROducer/conSUMER. A fancy term used by Amway-type people to lure you into their money-making cult. A prosumer is basically a middle-link in their pyramids.
By franchising (consuming) from person A, and franchising to persons X,Y, and Z (producing), you can make billions and billions of dollars.
An absolutely foolproof way to keep minors from viewing content deemed "too mature" for them to watch.
Billy: "So I was trying to watch some videos for an M rated game, and I ran into an age gate, so I put in my real birthday. SOMEHOW it managed to figure out that I am 12. CURSE YOU AGE GATE!!!"
Bill: "Fucking age gate! *quick scroll* THERE! I was born on January 1, 1904. Fuck you age gate."
A)
The Crud that collects under the keys in a keyboard. Usually more severe in the keyboards of programmers and webmasters as they tend to spend a lot of time at the the computer and thus eat at their desk. Mainly affecting IBM Model M (clicly) style boards.
B)
Can also be used to gross out Non-Techie people
A)
Bill: want to go to the club?
Bob: No, I've got to clean out my board chow, keys are starting to stick.
B)
Bill: Want to go out to get a bite?
Bob: No, i am just going to have some of my board chow/
Bill: Whats' that?
Bob: The food scraps that collect in my keyboard; Want some?
Bill: *GAG* *HURL* *GAG*
West Midlands slang word for rockers, bikers, greasers etc. In the late 1980s it was used by the UK music press to refer to a specific scene centered around the bands Pop Will Eat Itself and Crazyhead. The term never found favour with readers of 'the inkies' (Sounds, Melody Maker and the still extant NME) and was soon dropped. Now often used in predominantly working-class areas of the midlands and the north to mean someone who listens to rock-derived music and/or dresses in a manner that suggests they affiliate themselves with rock music of some kind.
Some grebo passed with Sabbath playing on his stereo.
The Poppies are at no. 17? God, a grebo band in the charts!
They're playing nu-metal now, bloody grebos!
TikTok Farlands is a term to refer to videos that you see after scrolling for a long time. These videos can potentially be disturbing, or weird. Said videos can also have low likes, or low comments.