multibasking (mŭl’tē-bās’kĭng)
I came up with the term “multibasking” a few years ago. It came to me when someone I worked with seemed to take credit for every project going, whether or not they had worked on it or had any meaningful input. I quite liked the idea that calling someone a multibasker in a corporate setting would be a damning insult.
At the time I googled it, and there were no results. I then told various groups about it, to see if it would get “out there”.
Two years on, and googling it gives you 293 results – still not a huge number, but the word has landed. Sadly, it’s not along the lines of my definition – it’s been used to mean “doing several pleasurable things at once”, which is predictable and dull.
Anyway, I’ve submitted my definition to Urban Dictionary, so we’ll see what happens.
UPDATE:
They accepted it! We’re off. Now wait till you hear it at work.
