Care-o-meter Edit Meaning

1.

A fictional object, normally sarcastically used in a situation where you could say "care" or "cares", too, but need something a little more unexpected/fresh.

Ben: We lost the softball game.

Justin: Oh, my care-o-meter's off the charts.

Janice: My grandmother just died.

Cody: Beep! Beep! Sorry, that's just my care-o-meter going off.

Janice: *quiet sobbing*

See care, cares, sarcasm, sarcastic, dick, dickish, nice, sensitive

2.

A scale of measurement from 0-10 used in theatres to measure how much a member of the technical crew cares about an element of the show.

Getting that actor coffee registers about a 0 on the care-o-meter, whereas getting their prop on stage at the right time ranks about a 9.

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