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verb - ambitransitive

• to join an online discussion and pretend to be an independent member of the community. In reality, the "astroturfer" is a a surrogate for some stakeholder - company, political faction, individual, etc. - who has something to gain or lose.

  I used to read that forum all the time, but it got taken over by astroturfing corporate shills.

  User BigUp doesn't contribute anything useful - he just astroturfs.

  Last edited on Apr 19 2013. Submitted by Jim K. on May 22 2009.

origin

• The term "astroturf" is a play on "grassroots". "Grassroot movements" arise organically through the people. "Astroturfing", then, is artificial grassroots.

  Last edited on Apr 19 2013. Submitted by Walter Rader (Editor) from Sacramento, CA, USA on Jul 11 2010.

expression

• absolutely futile; pointless, worthless, inept or absurd; good-for-nothing or idiotic. More commonly used in the southern US. See also worthless as tits on a boar hog.
  
  Refers to the effectiveness and biological necessity of nipples on a boar hog; "boar" being the general term for an uncastrated male pig therefore implies that because a boar hog lacks dairy-producing mammary glands, the nipples are rendered pointless and of no use.

  To convey a person's ineptitude, pointlessness or perhaps work ethic, one might say: "His teenage son is as useless as tits on a boar hog!"

  A two-wheel drive in the mud is as useless as tits on a boar hog.

  Last edited on May 23 2016. Submitted by M. Pearl Jones from Seattle, WA, USA on Sep 14 2015.

• the experience of some unpleasantness that one gives to others.

  Last edited on Aug 11 2009. Submitted by Walter Rader (Editor) from Sacramento, CA, USA on Aug 11 2009.

other

• "at your".

                                                                                                                                                                
  
  Citation from "Dungeons and Wagons", American Dad! (TV), Season 2 Episode 5 (2006) censored in hope of resolving Google's penalty against this site.

  Last edited on Mar 02 2013. Submitted by Walter Rader (Editor) from Sacramento, CA, USA on Mar 02 2013.

adjective

• stupid.

  Don't worry about what Steve says, he's ate up with stupid.

  Last edited on Jun 21 1997. Submitted by Pekka Pennanen from Finland on Jun 21 1997.

• First of all, dumb doesn't mean retarded. I see it as meaning that you're so sure of yourself that you take others for granted. Cockiness of a 'winner' toward a 'loser' would be considered "ate up with the dumb ass."

  Last edited on Jan 22 2014. Submitted by Anonymous on Jan 22 2014.

adjective

• strange / stupid. Origin: American rednecks.

  Don't pay any attention to him, he's ate up with the dumb ass.

  • See more words with the same meaning: crazy, insane, weird, strange.

  Last edited on Jan 12 2013. Submitted by Robert Wren from Round Rock, TX, USA on Mar 13 1998.