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'Wow, you haven't changed since high school!'

DEFINITION: v., To seek out old acquaintances even though you never really knew them that well, or liked them very much, in the first place. n. An old and unwanted friend who has suddenly reappeared.

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Dejadupe

Created by: Stevenson0

Pronunciation: deja/dupe

Sentence: Joe was a victim and total loser in high school and fifteen years has passed. He discovered Face-Book and began seeking out and contacting "old friendships and acquaintances" only to find he was dejaduping and renewing old hostilities toward himself.

Etymology: DEJADUPE - verb - from DEJA VU (an impression of having seen, or experienced something before) + DUPE (a person who is easily deceived, or victimized)

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Memorylame

Created by: Scrumpy

Pronunciation: mem-uh-ree-leyn

Sentence: Ken caught the memorylame bug. He was feeling insecure and imagined all of the people from his past were more succesful than him. He soon found that he was doing being better than most, being retired at forty.

Etymology: memory lane + lame

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COMMENTS:

Excellent! - OZZIEBOB, 2007-10-01: 18:24:00

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Dejadupe

Created by: Stevenson0

Pronunciation: deja/dupe

Sentence: Tommy was a victim and total loser in high school and fifteen years has passed. He discovered Face-Book and began dejaduping his way through all the names seeking old friendships and acquaintances to renew hostilities toward himself.

Etymology: deja vu + dupe

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Reunidiotion

Created by: remistram

Pronunciation: ree-yoon-id-ee-uht-yuhn

Sentence: Because he was bored, he poked her back and accepted her friend request. He realised that she would take this as his reunidiotion so to annoy her he posted her grad picture which was the most horrendous thing ever.

Etymology: reunion + idiot

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Whycq

Created by: kearstin

Pronunciation: why-seek-you

Sentence: Sometimes when I am bored at work I will whycq and waste time looking for old crushes or cheerleaders - it makes me happy to know which ones got fat and which ones are in jail.

Etymology: why+seek+you a bad mashup that touches on the all important question one always asks AFTER contacting old acquaintances...why?

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Reunionsult

Created by: Mustang

Pronunciation: re-YUNE-yin-sult

Sentence: Germond loved to go back to his hometown each year to meet up with old classmates, and he'd invariably seek out his former detractors to hammer them with reunionsults and to boast about the great success he'd achieved in his life.

Etymology: Blend of the words 'reunion' and 'insult'.

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Panaseeya

Created by: porsche

Pronunciation: pan/a/see/ya

Sentence: Panaseeya is a common occurence in a middle age crisis.

Etymology: pan (as in Peter)+ see ya + panacea

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Peeplechase

petaj

Created by: petaj

Pronunciation: people-chase

Sentence: Leanna had faced a number of hurdles along the way. Her computer had crashed when she added the Friendster ap and 6 of her ex-friends from school had blocked her friend requests. But she now had a grand total of 630 'friends' in her social network and felt that her peeplechase had been a huge success.

Etymology: steeplechase (a foot race run on a cross-country course or over a course having obstacles, as ditches, hurdles, or the like, which the runners must clear) + peeps (as in people)

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COMMENTS:

MrDave2176 I keep imagining little marshmallow chicks jumping over wicker hurdles when I see this word. - MrDave2176, 2007-10-01: 13:29:00

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Masonostalgimeet

Created by: Nettle

Pronunciation: may-so-nos-tal-gee-meet

Sentence: Mary shook her head as she watched Alex searching for people on Facebook. His periodically rose-tinted view of his school days had driven him to masonostalgimeeting again, a path filled with nothing but the painful memories of past humiliation.

Etymology: masochism + nostalgia + meet, although I've twisted the meaning of masochism a little bit because masonostalgimeeting is rarely the kind of pain anybody's going to enjoy.

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Lackquaintance

Created by: Nosila

Pronunciation: lak kwayn tans

Sentence: When Cyndi went to her high school reunion, she still dressed in her best 80's attire. Of course everyone else had dressed in modern day fashions, including the guy she always had a crush on...Seymour Modes. Seymour was now a Magazine Editor and tres moderne! As she later told her geeky friends who were too scared to go to the reunion, she and Seymour had a relationship whereby they were each's lackquaintance. As the night and free booze wore on, they found a cozy corner to re-lackquaint themselves. Luckily it worked out for them. They are now an item and she writes a great retro column for his magazine and he dresses more and more with an eighties influence. Their acquaintenceship no longer lacks anything!

Etymology: Lack ( the state of needing something that is absent or unavailable; be without) & Acquaintance (a relationship less intimate than friendship;personal knowledge or information about someone or something)

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heh - galwaywegian, 2010-01-29: 08:08:00

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Verbotomy Verbotomy - 2007-10-01: 00:01:00
Today's definition was suggested by OZZIEBOB and Karuma. Thank you OZZIEBOB and Karuma! ~ James

Nettle - 2007-10-01: 08:42:00
I've done exactly this myself. It rarely seems to lead to anything good, other than the occasional moment of smug satisfaction which comes from knowing that you're much more successful than the people who used to bully you at school (but it's not really satisfaction, because didn't you know, deep down, that they'd never amount to anything anyway?)

galwaywegian - 2008-09-01: 07:42:00
like it !

Verbotomy Verbotomy - 2010-01-29: 00:05:00
Today's definition was suggested by OZZIEBOB. Thank you OZZIEBOB. ~ James