Someone who can listen to his iPod, read the newspaper, and even answer the phone while sitting on the toilet.
Bitchy wife: Demetri! Get down here right now and help me with these dishes!
Multitasker husband: Sorry Maud, I can't right now-- I'm multitasking
The act of doing two or more things at the same time.
Solving a Rubiks cube while playing Guitar Hero, such as the man in the YouTube video, The Multicolored Multitask (Guitar Hero + Rubik's Cube).
to use the restroom and brush your teeth at the same time
I was late for work today so I had to multitask!
The result of the mental reprogramming that occurs over time when people habitually try to tackle multiple tasks simultaneously.
His love for gadgets and gizmos led to severe multitaskalism by the time he was 30
doing more than one thing at once.
It is a common fallacy that women are good at multitasking, and men are bad at it. The actual truth is, that men like to do things properly, so they do them one at a time and give them their full attention. Women on the other hand, are happy to do a half-assed job.
'What happened to your car?'
'oh, that. my wife was multitasking - parking and talking on the phone at the same time.'
'oh, well i hope it was an interesting conversation, because she parked a bollard into the side of the car.'
'no, she was talking to me on the phone, and she was really distracted by trying to park.'
'oh. how efficient.'
a person who completes a multitude of tasks, or does many jobs; a factotum
My wife was the quintessential multitasker; she worked at the local sperm bank as a taste tester, worked street corners at night to supplement the family income, and polished my pork sword every night without protest!
The ability to multitask, available to be tasked with many
things, (taskable)
Jim must be multitaskable in order to run his business well.