Tall Poppy Syndrome

What is Tall Poppy Syndrome?

Australian slang for the tendancy to criticise highly successful people (ie, tall poppies), and 'cut them down'.

Sam seemed to be suffering tall poppy syndrome when he described Kerry Packer as an evil man, merely because he was a billionaire.

See tall, poppie, poppy, syndrome, australian

Scoder

1. A mooch, bum or leach. Dude, you are such a scoder, you drank my last beer! See mooch, bum, leach, begger, scoder..

W1mbl3!

1. A german hacker who likes to force musical groups to file for chapter 11 Disaster! You've been hacked by ace german hacker W1MBL3!..

W00tnabe

1. (n), A wannabe 1337. May refer to people who speak poor 1337 or use 1337 in inappropriate situations. w00tnabe: 1'M l1k3 th3 gr34t..

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