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DEFINITION: To enter a crowded public place such as a bar or restaurant, only to find it deserted within minutes of your entrance.
Verboticisms
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Pubandon
Created by: catgrin
Pronunciation: puh-ban-duhn
Sentence: After filling my soda, I turned to find the room pubandoned.
Etymology: combination of "pub" and "abandon"
Lonerator
Created by: jonobo
Pronunciation: yooooooo
Sentence: noooooo
Etymology: yeeeeeeees
Gastroevacuation
Created by: toadstool57
Pronunciation: gas-trO-evac-q-A-tion
Sentence: David's lunch consisted of chili, hard boiled eggs, and a tall glass of chocolate milk. Thinking he could secretly release his gas to relieve his stomach cramps, David noticed his guests exiting the party, due to gastoevacuation.
Etymology: gas/gastro/evacuation
Diasporate
Created by: Discoveria
Pronunciation: Die-ass-spore-rate
Sentence: "That's odd," said Fred, whose hazmattire was a bold fashun statement. "The place looks diasporated - it was full a minute ago!"
Etymology: Diaspora + evaporate. Diaspora: refers to the spread of the Jewish peoples all over the world before the creation of the state of Israel.
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COMMENTS:
good word~ - Alchemist, 2007-02-27: 02:57:00
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Expodorous
Created by: w5lf9s
Pronunciation: ex.poh.d.rous
Sentence: In his earlier years he had sometimes wondered about that expodorous effect he had on other people. He had completely changed his diet a couple of times, had driven home at lunch time to take a shower and put on a fresh shirt. It hadn't made the least bit of a difference. He pored over the injustice of fate while he chomped on yet another clove of fresh garlic.
Etymology: expel+odorous
Crowdispersing
Created by: allwise
Pronunciation: craw-dis-pers-ing
Sentence: People shunned Andrew, but it wasn't until he got a job in the police as a crowdisperser that he was happy about it.
Etymology: crowd + dispersing
Skeezadle
Created by: NohWoman
Pronunciation: sKEEz-adle
Sentence: Skunky the Skank was a party animal and loved company and a good time, but alas, wherever he went, he totally skeezadled everyone out of there and killed the party.
Etymology: Skeezy: sketchy, sleazy, skanky + Skedaddle: to leave hurriedly.
Vamooseffect
Created by: erasmus
Pronunciation: va moo see feckt
Sentence: it was astonishing how fast the vamoosefect took place when "smelly Simon" entered a crowded small room with the windows shut.
Etymology: from effect and vamoose
Closedman
Created by: adbern
Pronunciation: cloos-men
Sentence: When it's a pleasant affair and the bar has to close they always call the closedman, it takes a serveral minutes and the bar is complete empty
Etymology: closed and men
Socialosticlimation
Created by: igho1207
Pronunciation: so-shee-al-ost-icla-may-shun.
Sentence: Unfortunately, socialosticlimation happens to him a lot.
Etymology:
Comments:
Alchemist - 2007-02-26: 01:01:00
Strangely, this phenomenon has happened to me many times...
Today's definition was suggested by Alchemist.
Thank you Alchemist! ~ James