A bothersome creature that seems to appear out of nowhere sneaking up on people when they least expect it and ruin an otherwise perfect day by giving something to them not wanted and taking away something they need.

While trying to get to work, but running late, a driver didn't notice the ticket-troll tailing behind their vehicle, waiting for them to make a mistake, giving the creature a chance to pounce upon the unsuspecting victim.

ticket-troll by jpg3 December 8, 2013

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Nouveau Teche

Similar to nouveau riche, nouveau teche are non-tech companies that have very recently called themselves "a Tech Company".

They often talk loudly about buzzwords of the day like blockchain, AI, ML, Big Data, IoT. More prolific ones use chained combos to impress, like "we use Big Data IoT with Blockchained AI to drive our candle making business."

You got to be amused by the number of nouveau teche coming into the Bay Area these days.

Nouveau Teche by cre8destiny October 10, 2018

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meal ticket

(noun) A person, possibly a boyfriend, girlfriend, husband, wife, friend, etc. who is kept around and close in order to be used, monetarily.

Though they had dated for years, John was nothing more than a meal ticket to Betsy. He was just a dumb, naïve fool that was there to be used, nothing more. Stupid fool believed someone actually loved him.

meal ticket by Nikki Stixx September 25, 2019

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