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(see·too·bee·too·SEE). adj. acr. Client To Business To Client. 1. A business model which uses a business as an intermediary for sales between two consumers; analogous to employing an estate agent to act as checkout clerk at a garage sale. 2. A means of conducting transactions between two consumers who lack mutual trust, in which both buyer and seller protect each other by employing a neutral third party who determines which of them will be ripped off.
(ca·shay·too·KLEE·shay). adj. phr. 1. Process by which a phrase or concept progresses from being despised by a select few to being despised by an entire culture. 2. The natural growth process of a buzzword or pop culture concept; paradoxically, also its natural decay process.
(KAYR·wayr). n. Software which requires payment of a license fee not to the author or publisher, but to a cause or charity whose mandate is persecution of a particular minority of which the licensee is a member.
(cash·EER). v. To fire or terminate an employee. etym. From the traditional retail post-firing ritual of emptying one's pockets in the presence of a company cashier for the purpose of recovering cash and office supplies stolen by the employee in anticipation of being fired.
(kuh·SEE·no·kul·chur). v. To grow a business or venture by attracting agents, employees and clients through the use of reimbursement schemes based on gaming principles derived from dot-com employment. rel. casino culture n. 1. A business or employment model in which a wage scale is replaced with a roulette wheel (i.e. stock options). 2. Social environment in which one's ability to rise beyond subsistence is dependent solely on one's effectiveness at bribing the organizational equivalent of the croupier.
(kass·turz UP) adj. 1. Asleep, laid off, injured, suffering from equipment failure, or otherwise engaged in creative problem-solving. 2. Of a device or person, dead from overwork.
(kaz·yoo·ul·y·ZAY·shun). n. 1. Relaxation of workplace dress codes; ostensibly a surreptitious technique for allowing management to more easily infiltrate and spy upon workers. 2. Conversion from the use of full-time employees to employment of casual labor for the same tasks; a means of enhancing the efficiency of the termination process.
(KAT·skan·ung). n. 1. archaic Channel-surfing during television commercials as a means of finding more entertaining programming. 2. common Channel-surfing during television programming as a means of finding more entertaining commercials. etym. Com·merc·ial A·void·ance and Ter·min·a·tion
(SEE·ling art) n. phr. 1. The psychedelic patterns and designs hallucinated by creative workers, typically caused by staring for prolonged periods at a blank wall or ceiling while straining to overhear theft-worthy ideas in adjacent cubicles. 2. A visual concept or representation which is attractive only when one is flat on one's back and unable to compare it to anything else.
(KLEE·vur·uj) n. 1. Of an individual, one's capacity to exert influence through sexual suasion. 2. Of a venture, a measure of indebtedness approaching the point where said venture splits apart at the seams. 3. Extreme indebtedness which reproduces itself so that it may borrow money from its children.
(clix·und·MOR·tur) adj. phr. 1. Descriptive of a company, typically a retailer, which is equally inept at both online and offline marketing. 2. Descriptive of a company, typically a retailer with a strong offline customer base, which is capable of launching well-targeted online volleys in its market niche and/or leveling explosive charges at its pure-play competition.
(CLY·unt·mynd) adj. phr. 1. Descriptive of a database model which gives clients access to frustration and hopelessness previously available only to the host company's sales department. 2. Descriptive of an information provision model which allows clients to free access to the core asset of the company in the naive belief that giving away the company's core information product will somehow be viewed by investors as a productive step toward profitability.
(KAW·nuh·kull) adj. 1. Of intellectually inferior design or origin etym. from the shape of headgear suggested as appropriate attire for the designer or originator.
(KAWN·tent free) adj. 1. Devoid of redeeming value or meaning. 2. Entertaining, possibly possessing addictive qualities. 3. Popular, profitable, or critically-acclaimed.
(kun·TOO·mur) adj. derog. Client or customer whose parasitism grows to the point where it requires excision using legal surgery. alt. sp. con·tum·or, cus·tum·or
(CRAP·lut) n. 1. Small application with capacity for damage and error comparable to a large application. 2. Web page gadget, usually programmed in Java, used to transform valueless web content into awesome valueless web content.
(CRASH val·yoo) n. phr. 1. The lowest possible value of a stock before it is essentially worthless. 2. The actual value of any given stock.
(krit·ik·ul MASS) n. The degree of physical size a venture must attain to break through an arbitrary symbolic barrier of growth, market penetration or revenue, and still retain enough forward momentum to insure self-destruction on impact with the barrier which lies just beyond the first.
(kurv·uh·LIN·ee·ur) adj. 1. Descriptive of a line representing the shortest distance between two opinions, both of which are wrong. 2. Descriptive of a path or process which follows the shortest vector between point A and point 2.
(SY·bur·skwaw·tur) n. 1. Malevolent individual or organization which acquires the rights to an Internet domain with the intent of holding that domain for ransom. 2. Benevolent individual or organization which acquires the rights to an Internet domain, and who kindly holds this domain on the trademark owner's behalf until ordered by the courts to surrender it.
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