Saleathon (sale + marathon)
A "saleathon" or "sale-a-thon" (sale + marathon) is an event that retailers often hold featuring discounted products. "Saleathon" has been cited in print since at…
SAP (soon as possible)
"SAP" stands for "soon as possible." "Sap -- Soon as possible" was printed in the book The Phillips Code: A Thoroughly Tested Method of Shorthand, Arranged for…
Scissors and Sawbuck (Sears, Roebuck and Company nickname)
The department store chain Sears, Roebuck and Company, founded in 1893, has had several nicknames. "Rears, Sawbuck & Co." was printed in the Jamestown (ND) Weekly Alert on May 11,…
Seagull Manager (Seagull Management)
Ken Blanchard, author of The One Minute Manager (1982) and other books, said in 1984: "A British friend of mine calls it the seagull-type of management. The big guy flies in, dumps on…
Sears, Sawbuck & Co. (Sears, Roebuck and Company nickname)
The department store chain Sears, Roebuck and Company, founded in 1893, has had several nicknames. "Rears, Sawbuck & Co." was printed in the Jamestown (ND) Weekly Alert on May 11,…
Sellabration (sell + celebration)
A "sellabration" or "sell-a-bration" (sell + celebration) is an event that retailers often hold featuring discounted products. "Sell-abration" has been cited in print…
Sellathon (sell + marathon)
A "sellathon" or "sell-a-thon" (sell + marathon) is an event that retailers often hold featuring discounted products. "Sellathon" has been cited in print since at…
Seven Year Itch
The "seven year itch" (also "seven-year itch" or "seven years itch") is an attack of scabies, said to keep the victim scratching for seven years or more. "Seven…
Sexretary (sex + secretary)
Entry in progress -- B.P. Urban DictionarysexretaryA reporting female that the boss primarily uses for sex in and around the office, similar to a secretary, but provides the additional…
Shamsung (Samsung nickname)
Samsung is a South Korean multinational conglomerate company, known for its consumer electronics products. The Samsung nickname of "Shamsung" (sham + Samsung) has been cited in print…
Shears, Sawbuck & Co. (Sears, Roebuck and Company nickname)
The department store chain Sears, Roebuck and Company, founded in 1893, has had several nicknames. "Rears, Sawbuck & Co." was printed in the Jamestown (ND) Weekly Alert on May 11,…
Shitcan
Entry in progress -- B.P. WiktionaryVerbshitcan (third-person singular simple present shitcans, present participle shitcanning, simple past and past participle shitcanned)1. (vulgar, transitive) To…
Shop-and-Frisk (shop + stop-and-frisk)
"Stop-and_frisk" is a controversial New York City program that stops and frisks citizens, usually at random; there usually is no specific crime that is being investigated. The…
Shopaholic
A "shopaholic" is someone who loves to shop. The joke word formation implies that a "shopaholic" is addicted, like an "alcoholic." Similar words include…
Shopdropping (reverse shoplifting)
"Shopdropping" (also called "reverse shopping") is when someone adds a product to a store. Although any sale of the product not in a store's computer system generally…
Shopocalypse
Entry in progress -- B.P. Wikipedia: Reverend Billy and the Stop Shopping ChoirReverend Billy and the Stop Shopping Choir is a radical performance community with an Elvis-like preacher based in New…
Shoppertunity (shopper + opportunity)
"Shoppertunity" (shopper + opportunity) is a term that has been used in many retail store advertisements. "Shopper-tunities" has been cited in print since at least 1939 and…
Shopportunity (shop + opportunity)
"Shopportunity” (shop + opportunity) is a term that has been used in many retail store advertisements. "Shopportunity" has been cited in print since at least 1939 and…
Showrooming
"Showrooming" is when a potential customer examines a product in a brick and mortar retail store, but then purchases that product online -- where it may be cheaper (with a possible…
Slime Warner (Time Warner nickname)
For those who don't like their Time Warner cable/internet service, "Slime Warner" has been used as a company nickname.…