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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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Ultracelloc
Created by: EBalser
Pronunciation: Ultra-sell-lock
Sentence: I was ultracelloc when i lost service while driving to school.
Etymology: ultra-extreme cell-cell phone loc-place A place of extreme cell phone stress.
Blackberiberi
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: blahk behree behree
Sentence: It was the worst case of blackberiberi ever seen, causing severe iphobia and naukea
Etymology: blackberry beriberi
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COMMENTS:
phonetically perfect! - Nosila, 2011-10-26: 07:20:00
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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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Cellulardysfunction
Created by: toadstool57
Pronunciation: sel-U-lar-dis-func-tion
Sentence: Jill's bars suddenly dropped to zero as they approached the tunnel. Jill started to shake and sweat. She suffers from cellulardysfunction and the thought of "no phone service" makes her blood pressure soar.
Etymology: cellular/dysfunction
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."
Potty
Created by: jockeymo
Pronunciation:
Sentence:
Etymology:
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COMMENTS:
? - stache, 2008-04-03: 01:36:00
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Cellphobiainterruptis
Created by: thebaron
Pronunciation: cell phobia inter rupt is
Sentence: Suddenly, she launched into a severe case of cellphobiainterruptis, while on the train!
Etymology: Latin- phobia -fear interruptis- Latin sudden attack
Acellularphobia
Created by: klee66
Pronunciation: a-cell-u-lar-phobia
Sentence: She suffers from acellularphobia
Etymology: Prefix: a-witihout cellular- having to do with mobile phone phobia- fear of
Cellparation
Created by: mrskellyscl
Pronunciation: cell-par-a-tion
Sentence: Kat experienced cellparation anxiety one morning when her blackberry died abruptly in the middle of a tweet. Realizing that she would have to communicate face to face with people, she began to panic and tried to call in a sick day. Unfortunately, she did not have a landline, so she spent the morning cowering in her cubicle until lunch when she could go to the mall for a new cell fix.
Etymology: cell+separation: wordplay on separation anxiety disorder
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COMMENTS:
funny - Jabberwocky, 2009-05-22: 13:10:00
Really good word. - splendiction, 2009-05-22: 21:54:00
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Phonecrashing
Created by: Suzanne112
Pronunciation:
Sentence: Your phone doesn't work, you can't help it. Your phone crashes, and you.
Etymology:
Comments:
stache - 2008-04-03: 01:35:00
?
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