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DEFINITION: n. An overbearing or pushy salesperson who makes you want to leave a store rather than look around and buy something. v. To aggressively sell something to someone who doesn't want it.
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Guestopo
Created by: whipspeak
Pronunciation: geh-stah-poh
Sentence: The dealership was crawling with Guestopo and I had to get out of there before I was spotted. They have ways of making you buy.
Etymology: Gestapo: the German state secret police during the Nazi regime + Guest: visitor or patron + stop: to interrupt, arrest, or check
Commisher
Created by: DaddiezGyrl
Pronunciation:
Sentence: The commisher bombarded me as I entered the store.
Etymology: Combo of commission and pusher
Salesgrater
Created by: serendipity9000
Pronunciation: SALES-grey-ter
Sentence: I was all excited to look at the latest styles they got in last week - but then their salesgrater started following me around and I had to get out of there.
Etymology: Sales (as in salesperson) + Grate (to annoy or rub the wrong way.. also a play on the standard 'sales-greeter' label for sales people charged with greeting every customer')
Servillain
Created by: Scattercat
Pronunciation: sehr-VILL-en
Sentence: I've never been so annoyed in my life! That servillain has ruined that store for me forever.
Etymology: Servile means behaving in a fawning, obsequious manner. A villain is one who performs evil acts. Driving away potential customers through misguided devotion to the sanctity of the store seems an adequate summary of those two traits combined.
Counterassistant
Created by: katytee
Pronunciation:
Sentence: Tired of being trailed round the store by counterassistants, Ed resolved from that moment to do all his shopping online in his underwear and eating pizza , free to scratch himself and 'look a bit too scruffy for Jenners' to his heart's content.
Etymology: Someone offering counter-productive assistance (Counter + assistance, with a nod in the direction of persistent)
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COMMENTS:
It rolls from the tongue lightly... - Scattercat, 2007-05-20: 19:34:00
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Rackwhore
Created by: yaknowmay
Pronunciation: rack-whore
Sentence: the rack whore in MACYS, did everything but drop to her knees, trying to get that sales commision
Etymology:
Pusherman
Created by: BemaSelf
Pronunciation: Push-r-man
Sentence: I can't stand that store. The pusherman always makes me rush to buy something.
Etymology: Pusher, Man
Shadohmizer
Created by: guesser
Pronunciation: shad-O-mizer
Sentence: Our Local Car Dealership is know to only hire shadohmizers.
Etymology:
Overlaud
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: oh-ver-lawd
Sentence: According to the clerk at the grocery everything in the store is simply wonderful. He seems able to overlaud just about anything he touches. Strangely, I only see him shopping at the up-grade store up the street.
Etymology: overload (to load to excess; overburden) laud (to praise; extol)
Comments:
Today's definition was suggested by iwasatripwire. Thank you iwasatripwire! ~ James
Today's definition was suggested by iwasatripwire. Thank you iwasatripwire. ~ James