To promote as fact information that is patently wrong, and comes from an unreliable or suspect source.
Don't believe anything John says about pop music. He doesn't have a clue, but will wikiate at every opportunity. Last week he said the Guess Who split off from the Who.
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v. When a corporation screws people - shareholders, employees, other companies - over at an extreme level.
Sue's company sat on stock options under some pretext, then laid off everyone at her location once the stock price had crashed. Then they only gave the minimum severance, and cut out all bonuses. The company does it all the time - it is the corporate fisting champ.
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n. A firing, or purge (multiple-firings), at an office. The act of forcibly removing someone from his/her cubicle or office space.
The third quarter report at Brad's company was terrible, and everyone is expecting a round of cubicle abortions.
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n. A person who may have an aptitude regarding technology, but is both ignorant and/or annoying about everything else.
Dirk is a great programmer, and can answer any question about hardware and software, but he doesn't know who Seinfeld, Obama or Angelina Joli are. And he cannot boil water or pump gas. He is probably the king of the technotwits.
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n. An office worker who treats his cubicle or office as a safe and secure place. In his mind the safety and security of the cubicle is only surpassed by the time he spent in his mother's womb. The cubicle foetus displays anxiety when others are in his space, or when he is required to be elsewhere in the office.
Ralph is such a cubicle foetus that when he gets back to his desk after a meeting he actually sighs and even makes soft cooing and baby noises while working.
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