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DEFINITION: A "natural process" which, smokers believe, makes cigarette butts magically disappear.
Verboticisms
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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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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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Nixotine
Created by: rikboyee
Pronunciation: nix-oh-teen
Sentence: he happily dopped his butts on the ground because he knew that thanks to nixotine, it would disappear
Etymology: nicotine, nix
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COMMENTS:
darn silent r - petaj, 2007-07-31: 06:32:00
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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
Whiftosis
Created by: ChristopherAndersen
Pronunciation: wiff TOE sis
Sentence: Whaddya think, they just disappear by whiftosis?
Etymology: from "whiff," a puff of wind or smoke, or an odor; and "-osis," a process.
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
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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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"
Incignito
Created by: OZZIEBOB
Pronunciation: in-SIG-nee-toe
Sentence: Bob believed in reintarnation:tars and toxin had to go somewhere. Whenever he stomped on a fag-end with his shoe, biodegradation seemed to magically occur, or it must have become incignito. He supposed it was some part of the mystery of life's ongoing cycle. Bob felt proud for he was sure that he was taking cignificant steps in environmental care.
Etymology: Play on "incognito".
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?