To create a threat or a problem in the office, server, process, production, or design, and then gain notoriety, kudos and/or rewards for its reduction.
Office Racketeering: Arguing that several aspects of a safe and sound design will fail if certain conditions exist. Then after tasked with solving the problem, he/she goes on to prove that the problems have been resolved through some redesign that never occurred or re-evaluation, showing the conditions will never materialize. Given the time lag, he/she came up first as someone who found the problems, and later the one who solved them. He/she is nominated employee of the month.
The act when felons, who have been convicted of racketeering, take raquets (either tennis, raquetball, or others) and try to sell them to professional athletes in order to confuse those who label them 'racketeers.'
Mike Vick: "Hey Andy Roddick, want to buy some spalding tennis raquets from me? I can sell them to you on the real cheap. You in?"
Andy Rodick: "No, I don't want to help you to further your raqueteering"
verb To intentionally engage upon a topic or situation, either solely or collectively, of which may normally be viewed as, "objectionable," thus, reacting in such a way otherwise viewed as, "extraordinary," with the intent of the racketeerers' amusement. Racketeering is therefore, generally, a deviant behavior for the sole purpose of entertainment.
Somebody must have been racketeering on me when they served me this chicken. I'd say it's dryer than the Sahara Desert on leap year; situational, at best.
The measure of an emotional and over zealous consumer in an upwardly charging market, also known as a bull market. It's characterized by rising asset prices, increased investor confidence, and favorable growth in the markets, bro.
The frothability was evident as over-zealous consumers eagerly engaged in bidding wars, drivingproperty prices to unsustainable levels reminiscent of previous speculative bubbles.
A man who dates women with the sole purpose of exploiting their time, energy, and labor while he sucks the joy and happiness from their lives.
"That guy's a soul digger. He'll expect you to work full time, but you'll be doing all the cooking, cleaning, laundry, shopping, and childcare while he plays video games or watches TV."
A person pretending to be something they aren't, or an impostor. This is inferred because of the old alien movies where alien pods appear on earth and the "pod people" dispose of the humans and slowly reproduce the bodies, pretending to be humans.
The pod person was pretending to be my father, but I knew that he was an alien when he acted differently than my father ever would have.
A dead drop is a location used to secretly pass items between two people, without requiring them to meet.
Spies have been known to use dead drops, using various techniques to hide the items and to signal that the drop has been made. Drug dealers use this as well.
A common place is to duct tape the item to the underside of a toilet cover in a public restroom.
A signal is sometimes used as well to indicate there is something to pickup, like a pile of stones in a certain formation. After checking the drop the signal is removed.
"The dead drop is the restroom toilet at the Gulf station at the corner of Commercial Ave. and GeorgesRd."
A "No Surprises Wedding," or NSW, is a wedding invitation designation that tells attendees that there can be no unplanned announcements, engagements, events or speeches at the wedding - all actions must be pre-approved by the couple. Anyone who performs an unapproved "surprise" will be asked to leave the wedding early.
This designation comes from Reddit, where so many stories of bad wedding behavior indicated a need to communicate expectations for the wedding behavior of attendees.
You are cordially invited to the nuptials of Brian and Tom on October 31 at noon.
Please note that this wedding is child-free (under 10) and a No Surprises Wedding (NSW). Reach out to wedding planner Sami Smith to request approvals or exceptions; please note that exceptions will be rare. Limited child care for under-10s will be available. All approvals will be noted and included in planning. Unapproved, or surprise exceptions, will result in guests being asked to leave.
Ulzzang true definition is "best & "face" = best face in korean. They are basically people with above average looks, sometimes with the use of photoshop and haduri who post their pics online, some becoming internet celebrities.
"Hey, see that chick over there? She's pretty enough to be an ulzzang. :D"