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DEFINITION: v. To copy and share an idea, thing, or person because you think that it's so wonderful that everyone should have one. n. An open source clone.
Verboticisms
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Replipeat
Created by: Mustang
Pronunciation: REP-leh-peet
Sentence: Using his latest copying software on his computer Newton felt no guilt whatsoever when he'd take the ideas and theories of others and replipeat them as if they were his own.
Etymology: Blend of words "Replicate" (to duplicate, or reproduce) and "Repeat" (to do, make, or perform again)
Appropirate
Created by: mrskellyscl
Pronunciation: ap-pro-pirate
Sentence: Fred would appropirate anything he found on the internet to use and share with his social network friends. He would download and copy apps, music, documents, photos and even books. Unfortunately, he ran into real trouble when he shared an app he had pirated with the person who created it.
Etymology: app:software applications used on mobile electronics such as iphones or tablets; appropriate: to take or obtain; pirate: one who steals and plunders - to copy and distribute software without permission
Ripoffligate
Created by: metrohumanx
Pronunciation: RIPOFF-LIH-GATE
Sentence: The despicable Professor Mindell purloined my original nutty ideas and shamelessly touted them as his own in a sickening display of the worst kind of RIPOFFLIGATE behavior ever seen in the halls of macadamia.
Etymology: RIPOFF+profLIGATE; RIPOFF-Late 20th century term meaning to steal PROFLIGATE-1. Openly and shamelessly immoral; dissipated; dissolute. 2. Recklessly wasteful
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COMMENTS:
A true story from Bogus Community College... - metrohumanx, 2008-07-07: 07:14:00
Funny - TJayzz, 2008-07-07: 08:55:00
That's ONE DISTURBING buzz-cut in the illustration. - metrohumanx, 2008-07-07: 08:58:00
shades of Watergate - Jabberwocky, 2008-07-07: 11:31:00
Professor Mindel is clearly just another macadamia nut. Great word....sounds so Washington DCish. - Mustang, 2008-07-07: 19:01:00
The nutty professor strikes again:good word. - OZZIEBOB, 2008-07-07: 19:27:00
Ripoffligate - abrakadeborah, 2009-03-25: 14:18:00
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Mimeoexstatic
Created by: serendipity9000
Pronunciation: mim-eo-exstatic
Sentence: She loved those tiny purple flowers so much, that she went all mimeoexstatic on them and 10 minutes later they were in every yard on her street.
Etymology: mimeograph + exstatic
Plagiariffic
Created by: Stevenson0
Pronunciation: plag/are/if/ick
Sentence: Joe is plagiarific. As a salesman, he uses all of the latest and greatest ideas he "borrowed" from the business books on the 'Best Sellers List' and shares them with his clients to impress them.
Etymology: PLAGIARIFFIC - noun - from PLAGIARIZE (to take and use ideas, or passages from another's work)+ TERRIFIC (extremely good; wonderful)
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COMMENTS:
Nice one! - airlie, 2008-07-07: 07:00:00
PLAGARIFFIC is good, and it holds closely to the definition.... - metrohumanx, 2008-07-07: 08:55:00
Very apt. - OZZIEBOB, 2008-07-07: 19:32:00
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Splenditto
Created by: Tigger
Pronunciation: /splen-DIT-oh/
Sentence: Whenever Ryan stumbled onto something he thought was new and hip, he'd try to get his friends and people around him to splenditto him. He liked to think of himself as a trendsetter, but usually those people would ignore his suggestions, or pretend to be interested just to humor him.
Etymology: Splendid - excellent, fine, or very good (from L. splendidus "magnificent, brilliant") & Ditto - to duplicate or repeat an action or statement (from Italian, detto, pp. of dire "to say")
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COMMENTS:
I like SPLENDITTO, Tigger!
It's a lot of fun to pronounce.
It implies adulation with just a smattering of sarcasm.
- metrohumanx, 2008-07-07: 08:41:00
ditto - Jabberwocky, 2008-07-07: 11:33:00
Great! A word I can use myself....mega-splendittoes.....oops, I did it, didn't I? - Mustang, 2008-07-07: 18:59:00
Splenditto, faditto, elfadoraditto, ditto-ditto - I like it; great word. - OZZIEBOB, 2008-07-07: 19:25:00
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Psychiclone
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: sy kik klone
Sentence: Roger had gotten his grant to further study the likelihood of mass-cloning an individual. It had taken lots of persuasion and hard work on his part to convince the powers that be that this could be a worthwhile pursuit. He had sold them with ideas like, "Imagine being able to psychiclone the Queen or The President or any other famous leader so that governments remained stable and economies did not suffer through misfortunate events". They had bought it and now only he knew how to achieve this miracle. He got busy and psychicloned one hundred new clones. The only trouble was that the one he psychicloned was himself and then he immediately disappeared, so that the authorities never knew which one to arrest...Bring on the clones!
Etymology: Psychic (pertaining to forces or mental processes outside the possibilities defined by natural or scientific laws;affecting or influenced by the human mind) & Psyche (that which is responsible for one's thoughts and feelings; the seat of the faculty of reason) & Clone (an unauthorized copy or imitation;make multiple identical copies of) & Sounds like Cyclone (a violent rotating windstorm)
Overdostrescuatro
Created by: Jabberwocky
Pronunciation: oh/vur/dohs/trez/quatro
Sentence: Be careful about how much you imitate someone because you might overdostrescuatro
Etymology: overdose (over supply)+ spanish 2 3 4 dos tres cuatro
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COMMENTS:
he he. Sounds like drugged out musicians playing from the same songbook! - petaj, 2007-05-07: 06:21:00
Very creative!! - purpleartichokes, 2007-05-07: 13:08:00
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Mainstreamify
Created by: bpc99149
Pronunciation: main/stream/if/eye
Sentence: He was horrified to hear his favorite indie band on the radio, for fear that they were trying to mainstreamify themselves.
Etymology: Verb form of "mainstream."
Copycatalyst
Created by: porsche
Pronunciation: caw/pee/cat/a/list
Sentence: Steve was a confirmed copycatalyst, constantly hogging the scanner
Etymology: copy cat + catalyst
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COMMENTS:
copycataclysmic word - petaj, 2007-05-08: 05:21:00
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Comments:
Today's definition was inspired by Cory Doctorow's short stories "Printcrime" and "I-Robot" which are both appear in Overclocked. Thank you Cory! ~ James
I absolutely LOVE the illustration on the homepage... gorgeous. Who did it?
Hi inkvision, Thanks for positive review on the drawing. Glad you like it! It was created by me (James Gang), or one of my clones, I'm not sure which. But really, it was nothing, we just copied Cory. ~ James
Today's definition was suggested by doctorow. Thank you doctorow. ~ James