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DEFINITION: v. To instinctively answer your cell phone ring, even when caught in a somewhat compromising position. n. The instinct to answer your phone
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Communowait
Created by: ekath
Pronunciation: comune-no-wait
Sentence: Her boyfriend gets mad because she always commmunowaits during intimate moments.
Etymology: from communicate + no wait
Ringstantresponsereflex
Created by: jonobo
Pronunciation: rrrrrrrring + stant like in instant + re like in Re: + sponse like spongebob minus gbob plus s + reflex like in relax.
Sentence: My Ringstantresponsereflex (short RiReRe) plus my catlike curiousity made grab the phone immediately - anytime, anyplace. I am on Ringstandby, you'll always get my Ringstandreply.
Etymology: Ring + instant + response + reflex.
Phonepulsion
Created by: Osomatic
Pronunciation: phone + pull + shun
Sentence: No matter I'm doing, I gotta answer it when it rings - it's a phonepulsion.
Etymology: phone + compulsion
Communipulsion
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: kuh-myoo-ni-puhl-shuhn
Sentence: The minister thought he must have really hit a nerve with his sermon when one of his parishioners jumped up with a shout and ran out of the church on Sunday. His ego was slightly deflated when he later learned that the member of his congregation had been a struck by communipulsion - a vibrating cell phone in her pocket and not his masterful words.
Etymology: communication (a strong, usually irresistible impulse to perform an act) + compulsion (something imparted, interchanged, or transmitted)
Comproinstinctivringobsession
Created by: grasshopper
Pronunciation: compro-instinctive-ring-obsession
Sentence: I was diagnosed with comproinstinctivringobsession and all my phone were taken away at the intervention.
Etymology:
Nookia
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: nuu keee aaaaaaah
Sentence: His coitus was so regularly interrupted by the phone, he dubbed it his nookia
Etymology: nokia nookie
Phobsession
Created by: DaddiezGyrl
Pronunciation: fo-b-session
Sentence: It was his case of phobsession that made him answer the phone while they were making love.
Etymology: combo of phone+obsession
Calldating
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: kawl day ting
Sentence: George hated the fact that Lulu had that new feature on her phone, calldating. It meant that every time they had relations, she would answer every call. This was annoying, especially since their trysts only lasted an hour, until she had to handle her next client...
Etymology: Wordplay on Call-Waiting...Dating (having a steady, intimate relationship)
Comments:
Today's definition was suggested by duchessella. Thank you duchessella! ~ James
Today's definition was suggested by duchessella. Thank you duchessella. ~ James