Over the last decade a new car phenomenon has taken place. The explosion of the sport compact car market and more importantly, the aftermarket. People should've invested in this sector rather than the tech bubble that popped a few years back, we would've all been voting Republican by now.

So anyways, the sport compact car market blew up much in the same way as the muscle car era had its time in the 60's through the 80's (until the Energy Crisis). Thousands of companys have sprung up over the years saturting the market with parts like exhausts, body kits, lighting effects, power-adders, rims & tires, and much much more. What resulted is as follows: Idiots inevitably got their hands on this stuff and virtually ruined every car they could touch by going way over the top or doing retarded shit to their retarded cars. As Honda's popularity with the Pepsi Generation approached its peak, and idiots of all kinds began massacring their mom's Civics, a term was adopted to stigmatize these morons: "rice-burners". I don't know exactly why they chose this phrase, I'm guessing it has a reference to the Japanese culture and negatively connotates the Japanese car invasion of the late 80's early 90's, but now it has been shortened down to a subtle yet deadly phrase:

Rice (n) - referring to an automobile in which customization has been way, way overdone or that none of the customization is tasteful but rather ghetto, retarded-looking, non-functional, and/or possibly performance & reliability reducing overall.
"I'm not going to that stupid car show, there's nothing but rice in there."

Ricey (adj) - a subjective derrogatory connotation towards an automobile that expresses characteristics of Rice.
"Don't put that ricey exhaust on your Kia, you'll just be making noise for no reason"

Rice-boy(girl) (adj) - describes a person who performs ricey behaviors on a regular basis.

Unfortunately, these definitions vary from observer to observer. For instance, a true amateur or professional racer typically feels that any modifications to a car must be to improve performance, even if it sacrifices the overall look of the car. They'll strip out the radio, door panels, carpets, put smaller & wider wheels to take advantage of traction and acceleration, install power adders, and other things even if the car looks like junk later. So long as its faster.

The street user, however, appreciates some parts of the racers attitude (the power adders, for instance), but will not usually sacrifice the look of the car since they will be driving this car often and trying to show off as much as possible. Oh they'll do the turbo-kit for power, but they'll put the 19" huge rims on it to look good as well, even if they know the smaller 16" wheels spin faster and weigh less.

The moron will take random samplings from both the racer and the street user, as well as retarded suggestions made by burnout friends and idiots trying to take their money, to compile an automobile that looks, drives, sounds, and feels like total crap. But they think they're cool. Because someone lied to them.

Here are some examples of ricey behavior:
1) Installing one of those annoying ass exhausts that serve only to make noise on your mom's Accord.
2) Swapping the badges of your car with another totally different car so that people think you have some kind of "special" model or something, but you don't... because you're an idiot.
3) Stickers of Japanese characters on your car, but you don't know what they actually mean.
4) Installing more than 1 set of foglights on your car.
5) Installing a huge ass wing on your trunk even if your car doesn't break 70mph on a good day.
6) Putting vinyl stickers on your car of several different manufacturers that have nothing to do with each other because you think that will make your car faster.