When you are working out of town, in some place fun. This results in working in the morning and vacationing in the evening. AKA Working, but on vacation from the office.
I just spent a week in Las Vegas for the SEMA show. I celebrated with several beers at night, overall it was a good worcation.
Work remotely while doing the touristy things on weekend or after work.
Not always a good idea but sometimes is more practical.
Me: I wanna visit my brother in Austin and I don't have much vacation left for the rest of the year.
Wifey: Let's do a workation. We can spend more time in Austin in a relaxed way.
Anytime you bring work materials, laptops , paperwork or worse keep meetings, in a neurotic attempt to 'keep up' on what should essentially be personal or vacation time.
This is most acute when you realize you get more actual work done, on "vacation" than when in the office, because nobody is interrupting you.
Bob & Mary's workation to the Bahamas centered around both of them never leaving the WIFI hot spot of their hotel and working on and off and never seeing much of the island or doing anything away from their laptops.
A person or problem that refuses to go away and continues to WORRY the mind and cause stress.
My car is so old, it has become a worration; dealing with phone solicitors is just a worration; trying to get child support without the courts being involved is a worration; having to go to 3-4 specialists for a medical issue during working hours is what ... a WORRATION!
Nickname given to bales of marijuana thrown overboard or out of airplanes. Origin is reportedly from members of the US Coast Guard in the area of Southern Florida.
"Base we've got some square groupers floating outside of Miami harbor."