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Refers to someone who selfishly/insensitively uses unfair "leveraging" techniques (guilt tripping, promises of windfall sales/profits, grandiose business-opportunity hyping, nepotism-type whiny pleading "But I'm your ___... surely you should want to help one of your own kin!", etc.) to pressure others into giving him "seed money" to start his own business, but then simply using the coerced funds for non-business-startup expenditures, while either totally abandoning his original aspirations to set up shop on his pwn, or at best unmotivatedly proceeding with his plans in an apathetic lackluster manner that almost guarantees failure... just like a crow who hungrily devours the corn kernels that the farmer has just planted, he simply "eats the seed money" to fill his tummy right away, rather than waiting to let the seed "germinate and flourish" into a much more bountiful harvest sometime in the future, where there would be corn galore on which to sate his appetite.
I never lend money to my indolent self-centered cousin --- some of my relatives may be taken in by his enthusiastic sales-pitches of business-optimism, but I think he's just being a crowbarrower, merely to avoid having to get a regular job like every other able-bodied soul has to.
crowbarrower by QuacksO October 1, 2017
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Any house/apartment/frat house/trailer/etc. which is used for individuals to crash (sleep, chill, hang out, lurk, etc.) for a period of time. In order to "crash", one must not actually live there (e.g. have their name on the lease, own said flophouse, etc.). Flophouses are typically used by college students, drug addicts, transients, vagrants, or other unsavory characters.
A flophouse may also be the home owned by the parents of a college student, who after being away at college, wishes to live as if he/she is still at college (e.g. staying out all night, returning just to crash at mom and dad's house, then leaving again), rather than conforming to the pre-college rules.
A flophouse may also be the home owned by the parents of a college student, who after being away at college, wishes to live as if he/she is still at college (e.g. staying out all night, returning just to crash at mom and dad's house, then leaving again), rather than conforming to the pre-college rules.
Example #1
Dude: (Talking to someone passed out face first on the floor of his college apartment) Hey man, who the hell are you? What do you think this is, a flophouse??
Bro: Sorry dude, I must have passed out for a minute.
Example #2
Mom: Where have you BEEN for the last three days? You come home just to sleep?? What do you think this is, a flophouse??!!
Son: What's your problem? I'm an adult now!
Dude: (Talking to someone passed out face first on the floor of his college apartment) Hey man, who the hell are you? What do you think this is, a flophouse??
Bro: Sorry dude, I must have passed out for a minute.
Example #2
Mom: Where have you BEEN for the last three days? You come home just to sleep?? What do you think this is, a flophouse??!!
Son: What's your problem? I'm an adult now!
Hate Sink
A person you hate intensely not because they deserve such hatred but because they serve as a focus for your general hatred. A healthy way to dispense with excess animosity.
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