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"I went window shopping the other day, and got me a Louis Vuitton bag priced at five thousand dollars for nothing. It was quite a deal". The term is based on the looting occurred during the latest riots across America in May 2020
When you keep looking at something that you want, but don't have the money for.
I can't stop window shopping for a car!
When bored guys rag on each other at work, with no actual harm intended.
shop talk example:
Person 1: "Need a hand carrying that box?"
Box Carrier: "Nah, I got it"
Person 2 (Usually shouted from a neighboring room): "He could use the exercise anyway"
Way back when I was just a little bitty boy living in a box under the stairs in the corner of the basement of the house half a block down the street from Jerry's Bait Shop.
You know the place.
Slang for an experienced bike mechanic.
It takes several years to become a shop rat. Only after spending thousands of hours building bikes, building wheels, rebuilding suspension forks and shocks, setting up derailleurs, replacing bottom brackets, rebuilding hubs, matching chainrings/cranksets/cassettes, and bleeding every type of hydraulic brake system does one become a shop rat.
A shop rat is the guy/gal you want to talk to about your bike's issues. They've seen every possible problem a million times over and know how to fix it professionally and quickly. They also know secret repair tricks that you'll never find in a service manual or on YouTube.
The opposite of a Tool Box Ted.
I spent 10 years as a shop rat in a Colorado bike shop.
The main Pinkbike guys all used to be shop rats for something like 10+ years before their current jobs.
Window shopping and posting it on social media.
I saw him/her pixel shopping in Gucci on Instagram
A bucket shop is a company that sells a coat of arms usually with the inaccurate name of "family crest" associated with the customer's surname nonetheless if the customer in question can claim a link to the original armiger. You can often tell if a coat of arms is from a bucket shop by looking if it has the customer's surname in the motto scroll instead of a real motto.
Tim Johnson unknowingly bought a bucket shop coat of arms associated with his surname Johnson off a family crest website.