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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.
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Anthrophobiaectoclaacu
Created by: roulouken331
Pronunciation: AnthrOE- Phobia- EctOE- ClAH- AHcu
Sentence: Her Anthrophobiaectoclaacu was so bad she had to live only where there was service from her cell phone company.
Etymology: Anthro- Human Phobia- Fear of Ecto- outside Cla- to break Acu- To hear
Serviceinterruptus
Created by: Jamagra
Pronunciation: sur'/vis/in/tuh/rup'/tus
Sentence: Lucy became quite anxious whenever she was without cell phone cabability. What if her friends were trying to reach her? What if there were an emergency at home? How would she ever know the correct time?? Serviceinterruptus always left Lucy feeling lonely and unsatisfied.
Etymology: service - the supplier or supplying of commodities demanded by the public (water, gas, cell phone usage) + coitus interruptus - interruption of sexual intercourse
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COMMENTS:
Ha! I was gonna do callitusinterruptus. - purpleartichokes, 2008-04-03: 18:45:00
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Appattack
Created by: Mustang
Pronunciation: ap-ah-tak
Sentence: When her Iphone failed for reasons beyond her ability to discern, Muriel had a major appattack from losing her connection to Facebook, GPS and other services.
Etymology: Blend of 'app' (software designed to help the user to perform specific tasks) and 'attack' (a period of being strongly affected by something (as a desire or mood)
Roamophobe
Created by: Banky
Pronunciation: Rohm-ah-fobe
Sentence: Bruce, with his pink Razr phone and its several Hello Kitty charms attached, would openly weep in roamophobic terror when the bus would enter the Lincoln Tunnel. How was he supposed to watch reruns of Project Runway with no bars?
Etymology: roam - use of a cell phone outside of one's calling area, phobe - person who has a particular phobia
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COMMENTS:
very funny sentence - Jabberwocky, 2008-04-03: 10:58:00
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Necellrosis
Created by: Stevenson0
Pronunciation: nuh/cell/ros/is
Sentence: Because of Jenny's complete and utter reliance on her phone, she goes into a state of necellrosis when there is any type of service interruption.
Etymology: cell + necrosis (from Greek nekrosis - becoming dead, state of death) + neurosis
Cellphonia
Created by: Mustang
Pronunciation: sell - FONE - ya
Sentence: The thought of not having contact with the 'outside' world for even a minute or two would cause Daphne to have fits of cellphonia bordering on outright hysteria.
Etymology: Blend of cell phone with phobia OR paranoia.
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COMMENTS:
And, dyspnonia, which is Diane Rehm's affliction. - stache, 2008-04-03: 18:48:00
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Phonozmiac
Created by: Gidaio
Pronunciation: fon-oz-me-ak
Sentence: The phonozmiac screamed, "Stop the train!!"
Etymology: I dunno. Just something that sounded cool. I guess "phone" + "phobiac."
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
Gophoneoff
Created by: splendiction
Pronunciation: go PHONE off
Sentence: Matty would gophoneoff! completely stark raving mad that her cell momentarily would lose service. Were subways SUPPOSED to go underground!
Etymology: A combination of “GO OFF” or to go mad, and phone.
Tranxiety
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: trang zye it ee
Sentence: Cella was experiencing it again. That feeling of tranxiety that she only felt while travelling on a train and losing her cell connection. Even if it was only momentarily, she was so addicted to her connections, that being without them, even temporarily, made her feel like a druggie without a fix. The truly sad part was that she was only calling the Weather station to find out the local temperature. It was seriously time for Cella to talk to her tranxichologist about her dependency. What the heck did people do before the onslaught of mobile communications???
Etymology: Transit/transport (to make a passage or journey from one place to another/a state of being carried away by overwhelming emotion;move something or somebody around; usually over long distances)& Anxiety ( a vague unpleasant emotion that is experienced in anticipation of some (usually ill-defined) misfortune;a relatively permanent state of anxiety occurring in a variety of mental disorders)
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