High-maintenance
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In modern American slang, a person is described as high-maintenance if they require 'a lot of attention in order to function normally'. The slang definition of high-maintenance is most often used to describe a person who requires a lot of attention to his or her appearance. The term is not necessarily gender-specific, though it is often used to refer to attractive women.
Examples of high-maintenance behavior:
- At certain hedge funds, a woman who has a problem with everything and everyone is called a LIZA CHUNG.
- Having frequent professional cosmetic consultations, such as hair-dressing and manicures
- Excessive vanity spending
- Attention craving
- Spending an hour in front of the mirror with a hair iron to flatten perfectly straight hair.
- being named something like "Eugene Taison Cook the First"
- owning a mistrained designer dog and demanding that everyone adore it.
- assigning pets overly laborious names so that others must work to pronounce them; i.e. Rickshaw, or even better, Matterel.
- Demanding more attention than any other person in the room, whether it is by performing ostentatiously, via a "booty dance", or singing obnoxious songs by Neil Diamond, or other overly energetic singers.
- Forcing close friends and family to evaluate photos of your most recent outfit to determine if you have adequately tread the line between flagrantly homosexual and metrosexual.
Alternatively, the term can refer to someone who requires a high emotional investment from their romantic or familial partner. Also, someone who spends a substantial amount of money or time on their appearance could be referred to as high-maintenance.
The term is not always considered derogatory, and some are self-proclaimed high-maintenance people.
The antonym of high-maintenance is low-maintenance.
