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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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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
Exomund
Created by: beardo
Pronunciation: As its spelled... Ex-o-mund
Sentence: I have been Exomunded ever since the satilite fell out of the sky.
Etymology: Exo-, outside -mund, world
Mobilegroan
Created by: Kazizzle
Pronunciation: moh/bull/grown
Sentence: Denise released a loud mobilegroan when she realized her cell phone didn't get service in Europe.
Etymology: "Mobile phone" - a portable telephone and "Groan" - a low, guttural sound of frustration.
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
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
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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Deringed
Created by: rombus
Pronunciation: dee - ring - d
Sentence: Cindy became positively deringed when her cell phone lost power during the thunderstorm.
Etymology: deranged, ring (as in phone call)
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
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:
Breakupphobia
Created by: LARRYHOOVER
Pronunciation: brak-ahup-fo-be-ah
Sentence: i have breakuphobia with my women when were on the phone and i have bad service (Verizon :p) #attalltheway
Etymology: breakup-self explanatory phobia-scared
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