The create-a-word game
Verbinition
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Proposed Definitions:
DEFINITION: An interjection that will convey a message of disappointment. Can be used in several instances (e.g. whenever you find out that the girl you chose in the dating show wasn't the hot babe but the "other" one or when you find out that you shouldn't have eaten those oysters at the buffet last night and should have stayed at home eating your mom's casserole.)
CREATED BY: ohwtepph - 2007-05-15
VERBOTOMY: Oh dear! Are you thinking of using a bad word?
DEFINITION: To feel lost in a city you've been to before. The idea that some enormous machine is lifting whole city blocks and setting them down somewhere else. You are in the right neighborhood, but those buildings certainly are not.
CREATED BY: geoamnesia - 2007-05-14
DEFINITION: The feeling of relief and lingering dread one experiences when there are unfinished projects on one's desk and one's boss approaches... and passes... and is only going out for coffee.
CREATED BY: cohenarie - 2007-05-14
VERBOTOMY: This is a game of hide and seek.
DEFINITION: The frustration encountered when an important email won't go through due to the recipient being over quota.
CREATED BY: iwasatripwire - 2007-05-14
VERBOTOMY: I guess it's really over.
DEFINITION: An overbearing or pushy salesperson who makes you want to leave a store rather than look around and buy something.
CREATED BY: iwasatripwire - 2007-05-14
VERBOTOMY: Are you just browsing? Or are you going to buy something?
DEFINITION: Conversations which consist solely of nonsensical, absurd gibberish, or otherwise convey no real ideas or meaning. Especially exchanges comprised solely of quotes from television or 'internet phenomena'.
CREATED BY: zrotv - 2007-05-14
DEFINITION: An odd thing or event that is surprisingly addictive
CREATED BY: ziggy41 - 2007-05-11
DEFINITION: A seemingly "sentient" and "living" computer; one that seems to become rebellious, especially after you put too much "work" on it in the form of programs, after which it will crash. Sometimes, you have to wait before you can "get through" to it and make it listen to your incessant refreshology.
CREATED BY: ohwtepph - 2007-05-11
DEFINITION: Poistimacy - Intimacy should be handled carefully as it is a poison to the weak. Sentence: "The uncontrollable anger was poistimacy in all of its foolishness".
CREATED BY: darwindot - 2007-05-08
DEFINITION: Lambatomy Lambada + lobotomy; Having to dull your brain to enjoy getting close to people. “As I slid from under the 17th century bureau, an empty tequila bottle to show, all in attendance seemed quite lovely, my Lambatomy had arrived.”
CREATED BY: darwindot - 2007-05-08
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