A term popularized in 2020 by an East Coast software developer to describe conducting business transactions illegal in one jurisdiction remotely from a location that is legal for such an activity.
Remote farming
Growing weed is illegal in Georgia. You need an autonomous software agent to remote farm the plants from a legal state, and still claim your product as locally sourced in Georgia.
Online gambling is illegal in America. Remote farm your website from Costa Rica.
Person with the remote when a group of friends and/or family is watching tv.
Has power over volume, muting, pausing, thing being watched, etc
Hey, remote jockey, put the volume up.
The opposite to the Urban Dictionary.
Remote dictionary
"You should not be defining this on the Urban dictionary!"
You know how you have to press a button really hard on a bad TV remote.
While having sex with a girl in the doggie style position, you press her butthole with your thumb like it is a button on a bad remote.
Guy 1: I gave that chick from the bar the bad remote last night.
Guy 2: The bad remote?
Guy 1: While nailing her doggie style I was pressing her butthole with my thumb like a bad remote!
When two people decide the station choice on the tv by wrestling over the remote control.
"Hey bro, stick HBO on Game of Thrones is about to start"
"Not until I've finished watching this"
"Right then, remote wrestling to decide!!!"
The lightning fast,cat-like reflex of grabbing the remote control to mute or change channels when an uber annoying commercial comes on the TV. Can be anything from a Jennifer Hudson Weight Watcher promo,to a hard-to-watch starving child,animal abuse or child with whooping cough spot.
My remote reflex has been timed at 15/100 of a second.
Level to which a job or task can be performed off-site or at home.
The leadership team was discussing the remote-ability of all positions in the office and reached the conclusion that only half could be performed from home.