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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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Incommanicado
Created by: dochanne
Pronunciation: In-com-man-ick-ar-doh
Sentence: Jane's heart raced as the bars dropped and she began to lose signal. She texted faster but just made more mistakes and had a sinking feeling she wouldn't know the answer before she lost network access again. "OMG u warin blu?" got through but then the ominous NO SIGNAL came up and she felt her eyes tearing up in frustration before she let out a wimpering shriek - "How am I supposed to know what to wear to the party?!" she screamed. "Aaaargh!" And as she looked at her shaking hands and tried not panic for the third time today, she had a vague recollection of her friend calling her "incommanicado", but the significance escaped her. How was she supposed to manage her life if her phone kept dropping out? Ridiculous.
Etymology: Incommunicado - colloquially used to mean unable to be contacted, usually due to distance, location and lack of communication equipment. Manic - colloquially used to mean frantic, such as running around unsure what to do, blubbering, agitated and stressing out.
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COMMENTS:
very cerebral - Jabberwocky, 2009-05-22: 13:09:00
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Nophonobia
Created by: diyan627
Pronunciation: no-fn-obia the accent is on OBIA. fn is barely pronounced
Sentence: Despite Lana's nophonobia, ironically, she's always one to lose her phone or accidentally destroy it in odd ways like when she dropped it in her water at Pei Wei as she passed it to Zack.
Etymology: no + phone + phobia (an intense, abnormal, or illogical fear of a specified thing)
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COMMENTS:
Great word! - Mustang, 2008-04-03: 18:59:00
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Cellohpain
Created by: purpleartichokes
Pronunciation: sell-oh-pane
Sentence: Passing through the cellyouvoid tunnel, Sue's cellohpain was plainly written on the furrowed lines of her face.
Etymology: cell (phone), oh, pain
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COMMENTS:
funny - Jabberwocky, 2008-04-03: 13:01:00
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Anite
Created by: Mclovin
Pronunciation: an.iht.
Sentence: i have anite. :)
Etymology: an-without ite-one connection too.
Tunnaphobia
Created by: sammyclark
Pronunciation: tun-ah-fo-bee-ah
Sentence: to feel distressed and panicy about losing cell phone reception in a tunnel
Etymology:
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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Ipanic
Created by: youmustvotenato
Pronunciation: eye-panic
Sentence: Demetri began to iPanic as the power bled dry from his iPhone in the middle of an Angry Birds battle.
Etymology: i - apple prefix for everything; panic - to panic
Blackedoutberry
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: blakd owt berree
Sentence: SONYa Ericsson went into Blackedoutberry mode, when her communicator failed to connect with the Mother ship. In her Qwest for an I-mate, she had gotten out of the Rover, and in one Cingular move had stepped on something Sharp, fell on her Acer, got a Gigabyte on her Vertu and did a Handspring back onto her Mitsubishi spacecraft, just before she ran out of O2. Over the Verizon, she spied a Cricket on a Palm and Samsung the praises of a Nokia No Kiss, NoTel policy before she Motorola'd back to Earth. When she landed safely in the Pacific, all the Siemens gave her a Boost Mobile, so she is now no longer a Virgin Mobile. Wit-DaeWoo! Wit-Daewoo!
Etymology: Blackberry ( a wireless handheld device which supports push email, web browsing, internet faxing, instant messaging, text messaging and other communication services.) & Blacked Out (a momentary loss of consciousness ;the failure of electric power for a general region;darkness resulting from the extinction of lights (as in a city invisible to enemy aircraft);a suspension of radio or tv broadcasting ;partial or total loss of memory)
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COMMENTS:
Wonder if you couldn't make a great pie from blackedout berries. - Mustang, 2009-05-22: 01:15:00
excellent - Jabberwocky, 2009-05-22: 13:08:00
clever! - splendiction, 2009-05-22: 21:56:00
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Cellabreak
Created by: torontorc
Pronunciation: sell-a-break
Sentence: I was talking to my mom when all of a sudden for no flippin' reason, I had a cellabreak and she was gone.
Etymology:
Nonconexaphobia
Created by: jboileau97
Pronunciation: NoN-Con-Ex-A-PhO-BiA
Sentence: My friend suffers noncenexaphobia.
Etymology: Non- not Conex-conecceted Phobia- fear of Fear of not being connected
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