to use the restroom and brush your teeth at the same time
I was late for work today so I had to multitask!
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 polite way of telling someone you haven't heard a word they said. Commonly used on long conference calls, when the speaker is monotonous, boring, or couldn't make a point of one were drawn for them.
Joe: "Blah, blah corporate office blah, blah, leverage proactively blah, blah human capital and grade-A synergy, blah, blah. Do you agree, Jim?"
Jim: "I'm sorry, Joe, I was multitasking, can you repeat that?"
A nice way to say that you're doing many different things at the same time. And since no one can divide by 0, that means you're doing many different things half-assed.
Joe thought that he would multitask by doing his physics homework during his math class. His multitasking, however, got him a detention and a failed homework grade instead.
A person who deals with more than one task at the same time.
John is reading a book as well as cooking food for his son and cleaning the refrigerator. he is a multitasker.
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).