Printer Friendly
Dictionary, Encyclopedia and Thesaurus - The Free Dictionary
1,801,689,324 visitors served.
forum mailing list For webmasters
?
New: Language forums
Dictionary/
thesaurus
Medical
dictionary
Legal
dictionary
Financial
dictionary
Acronyms
 
Idioms
Encyclopedia
Wikipedia
encyclopedia
?

tourist
(redirected from touristic)

    Also found in: Dictionary/thesaurus, Wikipedia, Hutchinson 0.04 sec.
tourist
the lowest class of accommodation on a passenger ship
(jargon)tourist - A guest on the system, especially one who generally logs in over a network from a remote location for comm mode, electronic mail, games and other trivial purposes. A tourist is one step below a luser.

Hackers often spell this turist, perhaps by some sort of tenuous analogy with luser (this also expresses the ITS culture's penchant for six-letterisms).

Compare twink, read-only user.


How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content.
?Page tools
Printer friendly
Cite / link
 Email
Feedback
? Mentioned in ? References in periodicals archive
 
Wildlife is a major source of income, either directly for consumptive or productive use value or indirectly for touristic and scientific values (6).
Wildlife, exotic pets, and emerging zoonoses (1) by Meslin, Francois-Xavier / Emerging Infectious Diseases
Most of the downtown bars are geared toward straight people, they reaffirm straightness and gender roles, and it's a touristic experience for people, a safe experience cast as something exotic and gay that really reflects comforting (straight) gender roles.
La Cueva: the oldest Latino drag club in the country has done much to ... by Lydersen, Kari / Colorlines Magazine
The title "Universal Experience" suggests the influence of John Urry's 1990 book The Tourist Gaze, which addresses how formerly distinct spaces, institutions, and activities are now increasingly staged and themed to conform to touristic modes of perception, thereby, in Urry's words, "universalizing the tourist gaze.
"Universal Experience": Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago by Relyea, Lane / Artforum International
More results
 
Encyclopedia browser? ? Full browser
 
 
Encyclopedia
?

Disclaimer | Privacy policy | Feedback | Copyright © 2009 Farlex, Inc.
All content on this website, including dictionary, thesaurus, literature, geography, and other reference data is for informational purposes only. This information should not be considered complete, up to date, and is not intended to be used in place of a visit, consultation, or advice of a legal, medical, or any other professional. Terms of Use.