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DEFINITION: v. To feel stressed and anxious and when your mobile phone runs out of battery power, drops its network connection, or in the worst case, gets misplaced and lost. n. A panic attack caused by an interruption in your mobile phone service.
Verboticisms
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Anite
Created by: Mclovin
Pronunciation: an.iht.
Sentence: i have anite. :)
Etymology: an-without ite-one connection too.
Cellomanic
Created by: Cilly
Pronunciation: sel-o-MA-nic
Sentence: Woah. That chick's lookin' really cellomanic. Hopefully it won't be too long 'til we're outta here or she's gonna need help.
Etymology: [self explanatory]
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COMMENTS:
Very good! - Mustang, 2008-04-03: 19:01:00
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Cellinervosa
Created by: mweinmann
Pronunciation: sell - eh - nerv - oh - sa
Sentence: Judy had a severe attack of cllinervosa when she realized that she had left her phone charger at home and her battery was almost run down. How would she live without live chat, mobile social apps, games and her tunes. These things were what allowed her to survive her workday.
Etymology: Cell (cell-phone) + Nervosa (a nervous disorder)
Cellyoufrightus
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: sell ewe freye tusss
Sentence: she had all the symptoms of cellyoufrightus, red face, hyperventilation, itchy finger and tunnel vision. They all cleared up once the train left the tunnel.
Etymology: cellulitus cell you fright us
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COMMENTS:
she should have remained cellyoubate! - Nosila, 2010-06-11: 11:55:00
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Fatalmobia
Created by: ziggy
Pronunciation: fay-tal-mo-bia
Sentence: A panic arising from the threat of imminent disconnection whilst holding a conversation on your cell phone.
Etymology: fatal-dead mo-mobile bia-from phobia
Blackberror
Created by: TimTheEnchanter
Pronunciation: BLACK-bare-er
Sentence: It wasn't bad enough that Gwen was running late for the meeting, but all hell broke loose when she suffered another BlackBerror and wasn't able to find out that the location had changed.
Etymology: BlackBerry + Error
Antivocaphobia
Created by: ttime77
Pronunciation: an-tie-voke-a-fobe-e-a
Sentence: the woman that was very excited about the conversation that was being held on her phone. When the train she was on went into a tunnel, her phone lost service thus she was diagnosed with antivocaphobia.
Etymology: anti- not voc- to call phobia- to be afraid of
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COMMENTS:
this word sucks.. - sjacksonnnn4, 2011-10-26: 15:15:00
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Loconnection
Created by: libertybelle
Pronunciation: lo-co-neck-shun
Sentence: Debbie was having a peaceful morning until she realized that she forgot to charge her cell phone. She went into a fit of pure loconnection as she panicked over not being able to send texts or make calls for the 2 hours while it charged.
Etymology: loco - spanish for crazy + connection also it is pronounced as "low connection" which could also set off a wave of panic in the cellular dependent
Comments:
stache - 2008-04-03: 01:35:00
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stache - 2008-04-03: 01:37:00
to whom is credit for the definition owed, james?
Ah... Actually I made it up! Cheers ~ James
stache - 2008-04-03: 18:47:00
way to go.
holy smokes, half the universe gave a verboticism