What the Hell is a Biter?

Not long ago, I considered myself still tapped into popular vernacular. I am a people and culture junkie, after all. But today, three barbers showed how clueless and out of touch is this 55 year-old man. I’m not sure which depresses more, the realization or confessing it.

My barber personalizes his workspace with Jack Daniels jars and other signature items described but I couldn’t see. Hey, he takes off my glasses to cut what little hair I have, and my vision blows without them. His coworker in the next chair complained about another guy who comes in to buy hair-cutting supplies and selfies in front of my barber’s chair space. The evidence is on Instagram. 

“He’s such as biter”, the accuser complained. All three agreed, calling the dude a biter. What the freak is that? I didn’t know and wasn’t go to say. The conversation eventually drifted to something else, with my wondering what a biter could be.

Does it refer to a snake? Someone who is deceptive and bites others? Or is a biter someone with great teeth that he or she shows off shamelessly. I couldn’t guess.

According to Urban Dictionary:  “Someone who copies off someone else constantly and when confronted about it, deny it and convince themselves that they were the ones to come up with the idea first”.

Biter indeed. The guy takes credit for what’s not his.

I know another version of the word without the “r”. Son of a bitch, my sense of popular culture bites.