A teenager or young adult who has never worked for their own livelihood and views the world through a lens of entitlement, often expecting their parents to finance their lifestyle. Workies typically struggle to understand or respect the value of labor, looking down on those who work for a living and failing to grasp the realities of financial independence.
"That kid is a total workie—his parents pay for everything, and he acts like having a job is beneath him."
"The workies at the coffee shop complained about slow service but have never worked a day in their lives."
girl 1: did you hear that fred is working rachel?
girl 2: I thought rachel was a red sox fan. isn't fred a yankees fan?
girl 1: I know, such a weird workie!
A phenomenon in film/television series, most notably streaming series, where the main premise is drawn out to such a point that it takes an entire season or more to get the parts of the series the audience is actually interested in seeing.
For example, if a series is titled "Surf Dracula," a majority of viewers would tune in expecting to see Dracula surfing by the first or second episode. However, the entire first season would instead be tedious padding and backstory before finally ending with Dracula surfing in the last five minutes of the season finale.
I watched "Smallville" on Netflix the other day. Dude, it was ten seasons of filler before he finally flew! Major Surf Dracula Syndrome!
Finding your way back to the truth by fixing on one verified fact and working out from there, the way you navigate by the North Star when everything around you is spinning.
Rumours were flying everywhere, so she went northstarring — one checked fact at a time.
A plate of brown consists of foods that have little to no nutritional value, and are typically deep fried. A true plate of brown will also be accompanied by a dark soda.