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DEFINITION: A "natural process" which, smokers believe, makes cigarette butts magically disappear.
Verboticisms
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Tobackgo
Created by: Jabberwocky
Pronunciation: toe/bak/go
Sentence: As long as you smoke cigarettes made of pure tobackgo they will naturally go back into the atmosphere by natural buttbustion.
Etymology: tobacco + back + go
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COMMENTS:
And all these years I thought it was called "evapbuttration". - Kyoti, 2007-07-30: 09:32:00
I think you're describing Imodium or Peto Bismol - Jabberwocky, 2007-07-30: 12:11:00
oops - should be Pepto - Jabberwocky, 2007-07-30: 12:20:00
Danged silent p - Kyoti, 2007-07-30: 14:09:00
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Incigerate
Created by: remistram
Pronunciation: inn-sig-err-ate
Sentence: Thank goodness for incigerating cigarettes, she thought, now only if they could invent something to make the black sludge in her lungs disappear.
Etymology: incinerate + cig
Vanash
Created by: administraitor
Pronunciation: van-ash
Sentence: John didn't seem to realize that his partner vanashed their apartment every night. He seemed to feel the butt fairy looked after the mess.
Etymology: vanish + ash
Stickflicking
Created by: Kyoti
Pronunciation: Stik-flik-king
Sentence: Bobby and his buddies had a great time fishing at the lake, but when they got home, they discovered every fish they caught contained several cigarette butts, which made them yet again victims of inconsiderate stickflicking.
Etymology: Stick (cigarette) + flicking (launching a burning cigarette nub from an open car window, boat deck, observation tower, etc...)
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COMMENTS:
now I understand my aversion to smoked salmon - Jabberwocky, 2007-07-30: 11:20:00
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Ossmokis
Created by: frostycharlie69
Pronunciation: oss-MO-kiss
Sentence: The ciggarette butts dissappeared as if through the process of ossmokis.
Etymology: From "Osmosis" and "Smoke"
Dicigtegration
Created by: mplsbohemian
Pronunciation: dihs-sihg-tuh-GRAY-shuhn
Sentence: Alex's attempt at a romantic picnic failed miserably, as his idea of spreading out a picnic blanket collided with the beliefs in dicigtegration of previous picnickers.
Etymology: disintegration + cigarette
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COMMENTS:
Hmm- sorry a little boxlexia. See my comment on the main page. - petaj, 2007-07-30: 03:25:00
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Draggone
Created by: porsche
Pronunciation: drag/gone
Sentence: One of the marvels of modern science is the development of the draggone, a cigarette that disappears as soon as the butt is dropped.
Etymology: drag + gone
Abracadabutt
Created by: Stevenson0
Pronunciation: ab/ruh/kuh/da/but
Sentence: After his last drag, he flicked his smoke, said abracadabutt and it was gone for good.
Etymology: abracadabra + butt
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COMMENTS:
A little presticigitation hey! - petaj, 2007-07-30: 03:23:00
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Osmoksis
Created by: purpleartichokes
Pronunciation: oz-mohk-sis
Sentence: Thank goodness for osmoksis, otherwise the streets and beaches would be littered with cigarette butts.
Etymology: osmosis, smoke
Comments:
petaj - 2007-07-30: 03:22:00
They really decigrated the spot!
Kyoti - 2007-07-30: 14:10:00
Isn't decigrating when you shred ten blocks of cheese at the same time?