by Tuua Mater May 29, 2007
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Get the Gregification mug.When "urban renewal" of lower class neighbourhoods with condos attracts yuppie tenants, driving up rents and driving out long time, lower income residents. It often begins with influxes of local artists looking for a cheap place to live, giving the neighbourhood a bohemian flair. This hip reputation attracts yuppies who want to live in such an atmosphere, driving out the lower income artists and lower income residents, often ethnic/racial minorities, changing the social character of the neighbourhood.
It also involves the "yuppification" of local businesses; shops catering to yuppie tastes like sushi resaturants, Starbucks, etc... come to replace local businesses displaced by higher rents.
The term was coined by sociologist Ruth Glass, who is quoted below.
It also involves the "yuppification" of local businesses; shops catering to yuppie tastes like sushi resaturants, Starbucks, etc... come to replace local businesses displaced by higher rents.
The term was coined by sociologist Ruth Glass, who is quoted below.
"One by one, many of the working class quarters of London have been invaded by the middle-classes—upper and lower. Shabby, modest mews and cottages—two rooms up and two down—have been taken over, when their leases have expired, and have become elegant, expensive residences .... Once this process of 'gentrification' starts in a district it goes on rapidly until all or most of the original working-class occupiers are displaced and the whole social character of the district is changed."
-Ruth Glass (1964)
-Ruth Glass (1964)
by Black_Lotus June 20, 2006
Get the Gentrification mug.Sexual gratification is the feeling of satisfying one's sexual desires for something. e.g. fulfilling, indulging, or quenching.
Guy A: "Man me and my girlfriend were in the sack last night."
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A: "Nah. I've never even gone down on my girlfriend before, actually."
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B: "Because women crave sexual gratification too, not just us dudes, bro."
A: "For reals?"
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A: "Nah. I've never even gone down on my girlfriend before, actually."
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B: "Because women crave sexual gratification too, not just us dudes, bro."
A: "For reals?"
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The person who licks the most envelopes, today, will get a coffee mugs with your boss' picture. Isn't that awesome?! See? We're all about gamification.
by Manylaughs July 12, 2012
Get the Gamification mug.originating in the urdu word for a white person i.e. gora, gorification refers to the progressive erasure of indian cultural traits from a person of indian origin in favour of american or british cultural traits.
signs of gorification include the pronounciation of a traditionally indian name in such a manner that it almost sounds like an english name! very low tolerance levels for spices, especially chilli, decline or absence of any knowledge of the names of the various dishes that made up your staple diet until you were 16, the declining ability to eat with your hands and the absolute inability to eat rice with your hands, the idea that bollywood movies still don't show kissing and the notion that watching a bollywood movie is akin to a novel cultural experience.
"you can't eat rice with your hands, aisha? (who prefers to call herself asia) your gorification is almost complete!"
to become gorified is to simultaneously be de-desified. ones levels of gorification are inversely proportional to ones levels of desfication/desication
gorification is a synonym for de-desification/de-desication
"you can't eat rice with your hands, aisha? (who prefers to call herself asia) your gorification is almost complete!"
to become gorified is to simultaneously be de-desified. ones levels of gorification are inversely proportional to ones levels of desfication/desication
gorification is a synonym for de-desification/de-desication
by evolvepast8 January 25, 2010
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