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A "Garmin" is a short guy who feels inferior to taller people and so he tries to please them by behaving in ways to show that he's "one of the good ones". A short guy who is not going to complain about his place in society. A short guy who draws attention to his height in engages in buffoonery in order to make taller folks feel comfortable in the notion that short people aren't to be taken seriously and that heightism isn't really a social problem.

He's characterized as having a "fun-loving, not-too-serious" demeanor, and he doesn't mind being looked at as a fool - so long as people don't see him as a short man who tries to challenge his social station or other negative stereotypes about short people.

tl:dr - a short man "Uncle Tom".
"What's your problem?! Why can't you relax and know your place? Why can't you be more like Garmin over here?" (Gestures to a narrow chested short guy wearing an oversized suit and suspenders, dancing a jig in a circle while spinning the propellor on his beanie).
garmin by AndrewLiver May 25, 2016
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Verb.
To garmin. To lose one's data irrevocably, and pay handsomely to either retrieve it or recreate everything from scratch
Oh no, my S3 bucket has been garmined.
garmin by anonymous September 16, 2020
Garmin is a US-based company specializing in GPS Prodcuts including: Car GPS Hiking GPSs and more
garmin makes GPS
Garmin by lanmor2013 August 19, 2023

Garmin Farming 

The act of farming garmin points in cheap, unfair or unofficial ways such as setting step goals and going for impossibly short runs in order to rise on the Garmin point leaderboard.
Respectful Garmin user: “Hey Aidan how do you always hit your step goal?”
Aidan: “well I just set my step goal to 100!”
Respectful Garmin user: “Hey! That’s Garmin Farming!”
Garmin Farming by Elliud Kipchoge January 29, 2020

Garmin Bitch 

the annoyin ass bitch that trys to tell you how to drive on your gps (also found on iphone)... 69 69 69 69 me right now
That fuckin garmin bitch keeps talkin.
Garmin Bitch by apkim January 12, 2010

garmin hickey 

Small circular impressions on the inside of automobile windshields, left by the suction cup mounting device of a portable Global Positioning System unit.
"The inside of the rental car's windshield looked as if it had been attacked by a large amorous octopus. It was a mass of spittle-flecked Garmin Hickeys: remains of numerous renter's GPS units on the unwashed glass."
garmin hickey by gt1jimi July 16, 2009

reprogramming the garmin 

Masturbating; masturbating in a car or vehicle
Q: What is that guy doing in the red car over there?

A: He's just reprogramming the garmin
reprogramming the garmin by play746 September 10, 2009
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