The Week's Best Invented Words

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The week's best invented words

Published On Sun Mar 21 2010


Alfred Holden

Shirculate:
Shirking your duty by forwarding a task by email to your colleagues, hoping they'll pick up your slack. (Jennifer Ramsay, Toronto).

Singletasker:
Opposite of multitasker, a singletasker is someone who takes up only one task at a time, and follows it through to completion. Bobby: "Today I'm only going to focus on finishing my TPS reports and not to answer the phone, email, text, IM, staple, and make breakfast simultaneously." (urbandictionary.com)

Nerd bird:
An airliner that flies between two high-tech cities. It is likely that the majority of the passengers will be nerds. "I'm taking the Nerd Bird from Toronto to Boston." (urbandictionary.com)

Business-buzzed:
an acceptable level of intoxication for business situations. "There was an open bar but my boss was there so I could only get business buzzed." (urbandictionary.com)

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