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'Excuse me, but that's my button.'

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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Obpress

libertybelle

Created by: libertybelle

Pronunciation: ahb-PRes

Sentence: Rick became enraged when he thought I was intentionally trying to oppress his need to obpress the buttons in the elevator. I didn't realize that me standing infront of the control panel would send him into such a tizzy. What made it worse was the twenty-three story ride in the small enclosed elevator and listening to him rant about how he needs to press the button. I am not sure whether to be sorry for him or appalled by his childish tantrum.

Etymology: obsession + press (a play on the word oppress)= obpress

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Mindtwist

Created by: josje

Pronunciation: mind twist

Sentence: doing things you need to because you have got a mindtwist.

Etymology: twisted mind.

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Compresilicate

Created by: Crabtime

Pronunciation:

Sentence: Staring obsessively at the nuclear control panel, she couldn't help but compresilicate every last button that her instructor showed her.

Etymology:

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Repushify

Created by: collinwashere2

Pronunciation:

Sentence: Did you just repushify my button?

Etymology:

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Nexpress

Created by: mplsbohemian

Pronunciation: nehks-PREHS

Sentence: Alex nexpressed elevator buttons just like a three-year-old.

Etymology: next + press + express (oneself)

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Autodepressant

Created by: galwaywegian

Pronunciation: aw toe dehp ress ant

Sentence: the autodepressant could feel her self coming down again

Etymology: auto depressant

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Repressgallery

Created by: Nosila

Pronunciation: re press gall eree

Sentence: Simon's repressgallery button on his phone was working overtime...I mean if you pushed again, would something magically appear? Well, only if you are in a theatre or other place where contact was awkward! Right?

Etymology: repress: (put out of one's consciousness or to press again) & Press Gallery (an area (sometimes in a balcony) set aside for reporters (especially in a legislative hall)

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Digicompulsion

Created by: Kreaper

Pronunciation: /dih-GEE-com-pul-shun/

Sentence: Robert had to push the button again; he had digicompulsion.

Etymology: digit + compulsion

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Digiredoo

Created by: purpleartichokes

Pronunciation: dih-jih-ree-dew

Sentence: The button was lit. Clearly, someone had already pushed it. So why did I feel the need to digiredoo?

Etymology: digit, redo, and didgeridoo (An aboriginal wind instrument that has absolutely nothing to do with this word.)

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COMMENTS:

Of course if you restrained yourself, that would be digiredidnt! - pinwheel, 2007-04-10: 07:20:00

petaj One of my favourite entertainments is a magic trick using an Aboriginal wind instrument - prestididgeriduation - petaj, 2007-04-10: 07:23:00

Digging Rolf's wobble board meself, sport. All together now "tie me kangaroo down, sport, tie me kangaroo down". - Bulletchewer, 2007-04-10: 07:46:00

Aw geez. Another song to get stuck in my head. - purpleartichokes, 2007-04-10: 08:21:00

So we tanned his hide when he died, Clyde, and that's it hangin' on the shed. - Osomatic, 2007-04-11: 17:13:00

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Recapushulate

Created by: PythianHabenero

Pronunciation: re-ca-push-yu-late

Sentence: Notwithstanding the fact that Jack had just pushed the button, Jill had to recapushulate it anyways.

Etymology: recapitulate, push

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Comments:

Verbotomy Verbotomy - 2007-04-10: 02:32:00
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.

Verbotomy Verbotomy - 2009-10-27: 02:10:00
Today's definition was suggested by Osomatic. Thank you Osomatic. ~ James