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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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Clusterduck
Created by: purpleartichokes
Pronunciation: kluh-stur-duk
Sentence: Minutes after her arrival in the crowded bar, Stacey found herself in a clusterduck. During her state of wonderwent, she pondered the wisdom of her limburger cheese diet.
Etymology: cluster, duck (and rhymes with the opposite meaning)
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COMMENTS:
I like these word-definitions that has a completely different approach by sounding right without neccesserily combining two normal words ;) - allwise, 2007-02-26: 07:20:00
Me too! Very creative purple-a - wordmeister, 2007-02-26: 09:00:00
Thanks! (aw, geez. they've left the room now.) - purpleartichokes, 2007-02-26: 20:15:00
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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
Presperse
Created by: ErWenn
Pronunciation: /ˈpɹiˌspɚs/
Sentence: Sam would always presperse the office lounge, except when he'd postsperse the room, often a result of his odor arriving a good minute before he did.
Etymology: From pre- + disperse
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COMMENTS:
Sounds like Sam was always well-prepared! - wordmeister, 2007-02-26: 01:42:00
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Barsmell
Created by: paintergrl1313
Pronunciation:
Sentence: Dude, get a load of that barsmell, let's leave.
Etymology: Bar + Smell
Decrowderize
Created by: bettyann9
Pronunciation: dee-kraud-er-ize
Sentence: The funk on him was so strong he could decrowderize a room in a nanosecond.
Etymology: de(undo) + crowd + erize(make into)
Egressivate
Created by: jedijawa
Pronunciation: e-gres-si-vate
Sentence: Moe often caused the other patrons of the bar to egressivate not long after his arrival.
Etymology: egress - the act of exiting
Restaurout
Created by: Osomatic
Pronunciation: rest + arr + out
Sentence: We pulled a restaurout the other day, which is what we get for showing up for dinner at 10:45 PM.
Etymology: restaurant + out
Publicenema
Created by: toralora
Pronunciation: pub/lik/eh/neh/mah
Sentence: He had a case of publicenema when he went to the local bar last night. Everyone left within minutes of his entrance.
Etymology: public + enema
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COMMENTS:
Kind of like public enemy - toralora, 2007-03-04: 21:12:00
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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
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