" monitor lizard "

 [ "monitor lizard" ]

1: Rare skin condition that affects one in seven geeks born before 1982* caused by unreliable CRT monitors exploding inexplicably in one's face. The resulting scabs often form in a regular pattern resembling scales, hence the moniker, Lizard.

  * e.g.,  ... "Y0 f00. Did you see that h4r|)c0r3 m0f0? H3 b 133" 

 [ "monitor lizard" ]

2: Monitor Lizards were generally regarded with fear and awe by the geek and hacking communities until the mid-nineties when it became fashionable to sport a 'monitor print' by deliberately exploding a monitor on a person's head.

  * e.g.,  ... "Fo shizzle mah nizzle. That was a gangsta monitor lizard fo' real." 

 [ "monitor lizard" ]

3: After the loss of its influence as a status symbol, the Monitor Lizard gradually faded from the annals of history and time past.

 [ "monitor lizard" ]

4: (*Information accurate as of June 1990. Although some dismiss the Monitor Lizard phenomenon as an urban legend, 72% of all seven year olds surveyed attested to the story's validity.)

 [ "monitor lizard" ]

1: One of those humans that sits in a room simultaneously monitoring multiple monitors arranged in a large panorama around the viewing chair, displaying a range of input sources such as the news, sports, cable tv shows, video games, porn, security cameras, etc.

  * e.g.,  ... We never see him outside in the day anymore, he won't answer his phone, his place reeks and is full of pizza boxes... he's turned into a monitor lizard. 

 [ "monitor lizard" ]

2: For those that prefer to not disconnect from one channel to surf to the next on a single screen, but "parallel process" all of it by flitting attention back and forth between a dozen screens, information overload to the point of total saturation.

 [ "monitor lizard" ]

3: Especially popular with media/news reporting and intelligence/security ppl.

 [ "monitor lizard" ]

4: Some do it for a career, some do it for entertainment, some need to be completely distracted from reality.

 [ "Monitor Lizard" ]

1: A person who spends too much time at the computer for frivolous reasons,gaming or aimless net-surfing. Same as Mouse Potato

  * e.g.,  ... That guy spends so much time playing Halo he's becoming a real monitor lizard. 

 [ "Dickie Licky Vickie; The Dandelion Deed Through The Crevices Of An Elephant, WHom Is Actually A Komodo Dragon <Monitor`~`Lizard>" ]

1: Dickie Licky Vickie; The Dandelion Deed Through The Crevices Of An Elephant, WHom Is Actually A Komodo Dragon <Monitor`~`Lizard>

  * e.g.,  ... Dickie Licky Vickie; The Dandelion Deed Through The Crevices Of An Elephant, WHom Is Actually A Komodo Dragon <Monitor`~`Lizard>