When it seems like it has been there forever, or will be there forever, but in reality you know it's lasted a short while, or won't last forever. Fauxever.
Johana and I have known each other a couple of months, but she says, "It's like we've known each other forever!"
I reply, "No, you mean fauxever. f-a-u-x-e-v-a~"
I reply, "No, you mean fauxever. f-a-u-x-e-v-a~"
by Alexfeels May 26, 2008
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"Wow, Stacey's work load must be really heavy right now, she has been here since zero dark thirty this morning!" "No, she's just working fauxvertime because she hates her life and is generally just a miserable person."
by fauxreal May 7, 2015
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A “fauxverdose” occurs when someone sees fentanyl, panics, and faints. Symptoms often include rapid breathing, heart palpitations, and dilated pupils—none of which is consistent with opioid toxicity.
Fauxverdoses involving police are regularly misreported in the media as actual opiate overdoses. This leads the public to misunderstand the very real dangers posed by fentanyl and its analogs.
Fauxverdose is a portmanteau word derived from “faux,” meaning “not real or genuine” and “overdose.”
Fauxverdoses involving police are regularly misreported in the media as actual opiate overdoses. This leads the public to misunderstand the very real dangers posed by fentanyl and its analogs.
Fauxverdose is a portmanteau word derived from “faux,” meaning “not real or genuine” and “overdose.”
“Dude, NBC News reported that a Florida cop OD’d during a vehicle search just by getting near the stuff!”
“Naw, I watched the body cam footage with Dr. Smith—she says the cop just panicked and had a fauxverdose.”
“Naw, I watched the body cam footage with Dr. Smith—she says the cop just panicked and had a fauxverdose.”
by EMT-JD May 17, 2023
Get the Fauxverdose mug.When Jane was notified that she won the grand-prize of one nickel, she screamed and jumped for joy, but it was just a fauxver-reaction.
by Stan-The-Man April 1, 2015
Get the fauxver-reaction mug.an individual who will outwardly express that they exhibit anything form introversion, shyness, lack of confidence. Or any other number of traits which on paper seem negative but by modern standards have become fashionable attributes,
If you claim to be an introvert and are alone. It’s socially accepted, if you’re an extravert and you’re alone: you’re a failure. Same goes with lack of confidence, as stating this makes you seem humble and that you require assistance. So that when you act normal, it becomes something praise worthy. These people often will believe themselves to be telling the truth due to an inability to be honest with themselves, or in the cases of certain more predatory characters: it may be a conscious strategy to garner sympathy.
Etymology:
the term takes the Latin phrase 'faux' meaning false. and combines it with 'vert' which is latin for 'turn'. The word fits within the paradigm of introvert and extravert. meaning respectively 'inwards turn' and 'outwards turn'. So the 'fauxvert' would mean 'false turn'.
If you claim to be an introvert and are alone. It’s socially accepted, if you’re an extravert and you’re alone: you’re a failure. Same goes with lack of confidence, as stating this makes you seem humble and that you require assistance. So that when you act normal, it becomes something praise worthy. These people often will believe themselves to be telling the truth due to an inability to be honest with themselves, or in the cases of certain more predatory characters: it may be a conscious strategy to garner sympathy.
Etymology:
the term takes the Latin phrase 'faux' meaning false. and combines it with 'vert' which is latin for 'turn'. The word fits within the paradigm of introvert and extravert. meaning respectively 'inwards turn' and 'outwards turn'. So the 'fauxvert' would mean 'false turn'.
Lucy told me she was a shy introvert, but she's been partying 5 nights a week for weeks and had a debate with the tutor in front of the whole class yesterday. She seems like more of a fauxvert.
by Javier Juniper February 23, 2022
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by Princeb10 July 13, 2014
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The Highline in New York City is a great place to hang, it's open and airy, and really fauxvergrown so you feel like you are in the country.
by Costumegal July 22, 2012
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