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To fake listening to someone’s concerns and pretend you are giving consideration to their viewpoint. All the while plotting to take it out on them later if they dare agree to the new deal you propose without meaning what you said.
To fake listening to someone’s concerns and pretend you are giving consideration to their viewpoint. All the while plotting to take it out on them later if they dare agree to the new deal you propose without meaning what you said.
Dan reached a kompromise with Michelle when he agreed to "take things slow", even though he knew he would get some later that night.
by gtbarry November 5, 2008
Get the kompromise mug.Noun. To choke. To lose when you could have won. To not deliver when the pressure is on. Based on golfer Phil Mickelson's innate ability to choke when the pressure is on.
by gtbarry June 20, 2006
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a situation in which there is no chance of winning. See also....modern day version of this term is "iraq"
a situation in which there is no chance of winning. See also....modern day version of this term is "iraq"
"Honey, does this make me look fat?"
"I am so not answering that. You are NOT getting me into THAT vietnam."
"I am so not answering that. You are NOT getting me into THAT vietnam."
by gtbarry August 28, 2008
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The act of self-declaration via twitter or facebook of what you are currently "doing" (BESIDES typing into facebook or twitter - which is what you are ACTUALLY DOING!) in an attempt to publicly validate your social status and to make it look like you are not a loner or a loser that needs virtual validation to give yourself a sense of self-worth. (As my friend put it, posting that you are doing laundry is not a "status update" - it's a cry for help!)
See also: cyber-affirmation
The act of self-declaration via twitter or facebook of what you are currently "doing" (BESIDES typing into facebook or twitter - which is what you are ACTUALLY DOING!) in an attempt to publicly validate your social status and to make it look like you are not a loner or a loser that needs virtual validation to give yourself a sense of self-worth. (As my friend put it, posting that you are doing laundry is not a "status update" - it's a cry for help!)
See also: cyber-affirmation
Dan is totally into cyber-vanity. He updates his facebook status ten times a day. As if we really want to read a play-by-play of his laundry chore.
by gtbarry May 5, 2009
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***A combination of the words “apple” and “zealot” and therefore, pronounced like the word “applet”***
A member of a fanatical sect that is so partisan and overly enthusiastic that they have an uncritical and blinded devotion to anything made by Apple Computers. They are so intolerantly devoted to their own opinions and prejudices that they develop an elitist attitude and treat members of other groups with hatred or severe intolerance.
***A combination of the words “apple” and “zealot” and therefore, pronounced like the word “applet”***
A member of a fanatical sect that is so partisan and overly enthusiastic that they have an uncritical and blinded devotion to anything made by Apple Computers. They are so intolerantly devoted to their own opinions and prejudices that they develop an elitist attitude and treat members of other groups with hatred or severe intolerance.
Dan is such an Applot that he thinks the iPhone is “perfect.” But when I try to call him to convince him otherwise, he rarely has an AT&T signal and often his battery is dead.
by gtbarry December 9, 2008
Get the Applot mug.The act of changing your facebook status from "in a relationship with" to "single" and thereby notifying your known world that you are now officially single - since it is only official when facebook says it is.
(Not to be confused with face-to-face break up - which I have found possibly lethal in my past)
a.k.a. facebookup
(Not to be confused with face-to-face break up - which I have found possibly lethal in my past)
a.k.a. facebookup
by gtbarry June 17, 2009
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An energy vampire (or more commonly known as an "energy vamp") is a person that feeds off the life force or energy (or ch'i) of other living creatures - mostly other people. Can also be known as pranic vampire, empathic vampire, energy predator, psy-vamp, energy parasite, emotional vampire or one of my ex-girlfriends.
Basically, anyone who sucks the energy out of a room or removes (feeds from) the energy of others.
see also:
- Succubus or Incubus of Judeo-Christian mythology.
An energy vampire (or more commonly known as an "energy vamp") is a person that feeds off the life force or energy (or ch'i) of other living creatures - mostly other people. Can also be known as pranic vampire, empathic vampire, energy predator, psy-vamp, energy parasite, emotional vampire or one of my ex-girlfriends.
Basically, anyone who sucks the energy out of a room or removes (feeds from) the energy of others.
see also:
- Succubus or Incubus of Judeo-Christian mythology.
Dan is back to his old self now that he has broken it off with that energy vamp, Michelle, he dating that sucked his life force from him and drained the fun out of every room she entered.
by gtbarry March 23, 2009
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