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DEFINITION: v. To push a push-button that has just been pushed by someone else because you "need" to push it yourself; common at elevators, traffic lights, and family meetings. n. A person who "needs" to push their own buttons.
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Pressoccupied
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: presäkyəpīd
Sentence: Ever since she was little Tracy has been pressoccupied. Whenever she was in an elevator she wanted to be the one to press the button. Crossing a downtown street? **ME PUSH, ME PUSH!** It was so bad that she was banned from participating in the Take Your Child to Work program at the missle silo where her father works.
Etymology: press (move or cause to move into a position of contact with something by exerting continuous physical force) + preoccupation (a subject or matter that engrosses someone)
Mindtwist
Created by: josje
Pronunciation: mind twist
Sentence: doing things you need to because you have got a mindtwist.
Etymology: twisted mind.
Analpush
Created by: Pandora
Pronunciation: anal-push
Sentence: Although the crosswalk button was already lit, Jane noticed that the next man who arrived at the corner analpushed the button anyway.
Etymology: anal (obsessive) + push
Repushify
Created by: collinwashere2
Pronunciation:
Sentence: Did you just repushify my button?
Etymology:
Pushosis
Created by: hobodad
Pronunciation: pushosis
Sentence:
Etymology: push + psychosis
Rebutton
Created by: WhiteRhino
Pronunciation: Re-butt-on
Sentence: Linda rebuttoned the elevator switch nervously.
Etymology: Re - again Button - uh...button.
Plargitic
Created by: nuemj88
Pronunciation: plar-jit-ik
Sentence: That is MY plargitic button.
Etymology: Plarg - taken from plagiarize. Because you copy them when you push the button.
Impatientitis
Created by: Tanik
Pronunciation: im-paa-shunt-eyetis
Sentence: Tony's impatientitis made it impossible for him to just wait. He had to push the button over and over.
Etymology: impatien (can't wait) and itis (disease)
Elevatorgasm
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: eləvātərgazəm
Sentence: It all started when, as a young girl, her father would allow her to push the button on the elevator at his office. She still gets a charge, an elevatorgasm, when she is able to push her own button.
Etymology: elevator (a platform or compartment housed in a shaft for raising and lowering people or things to different floors or levels) + orgasm (a climax of sexual excitement)
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COMMENTS:
lolol cracked me up!! - libertybelle, 2011-03-16: 08:47:00
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Comments:
Today's definition was suggested by Osomatic.
Thank you Osomatic! ~ James
Mustang - 2008-06-19: 08:28:00
Being compushive isnt easy. It takes lots of energy and ingenuity.
Today's definition was suggested by Osomatic. Thank you Osomatic. ~ James