genericide

A unique marketing predicament where a particular brand of a product becomes so common or dominant, its brand name becomes the generic term for the entire product category. Examples include Kleenex, Vaseline, Xerox, Windex and WD-40. Some trademarks have actually lost their legal protection in the U.S, including Aspirin, Thermos and zipper.

#1: "Hand me a Kleenex, would you please? I'm all stuffed up."

#2: "These are Puffs. Shouldn't you say 'facial tissue'?"

#1: "I just say Kleenex for all of them. The brand has committed genericide. Now just give me the damn Kleenex already, my nose is dripping!"

by drm310 September 23, 2011

genericide

The way people tend to want their homes or clothes to be like everyone else. Lack of individuality or self expression

I was at their new home last night, they committed genericide on their living room.

I just watched HGTV and saw seven consecutive shows committing genericide

They just installed granite countertops, another kitchen gone to genericide

by Joe Incao February 16, 2008

gendercide

The systematic or planned extermination of an entire group based on sex or gender.

The ultimate desire of a radical feminazi is male gendercide.

by tarelasi July 13, 2003

Genericizing

1) The act of generically defining a subject.
2) Software: the process of re-writing code so it is generic and re-usable for many projects. i.e. Forming a template.

The process of genericizing the myriad implementations of the project was long and arduous.

by IrishGeek November 3, 2010

gentrocide

Gentrocide-
the killing of the cultural creative communities when an environment becomes so infiltrated by the super rich that there is no more people with soft -hearted easy- going ways who can afford to live in the region. The region is then peopled by fast moving unhappy individuals driving their luxury cars with anger and attitude.

Marin County has suffered from gentrocide.

by Shakti Shen May 22, 2006

Generisize

The act of making something generic. Implies that it was non-generic before.

I've Generisized the algorithm

by Joel D. Martinez April 4, 2007

genericise

Verb - To make something generic.

We need to open up this script and genericise it.

by theShark July 1, 2004