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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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Redundafied
Created by: br0wn
Pronunciation: rĭ-dŭn'dă-fīd
Sentence: Once you upload your kitten photo it'll be copied, pasted and redundafied to death.
Etymology: redundant, -fied
Herox
Created by: libertybelle
Pronunciation: he-rocks
Sentence: Jason gave everyone herox duplicates of his trademark Cuban shirt for Christmas because he believed in the classic style. Grandma wasn't so sure...
Etymology: he + rocks = play on word Xerox - a genericized trademark
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)
Adoropy
Created by: Jeaneai
Pronunciation: Ah-door-oh-pee
Sentence: Frank was so completely entranced by Melanie's good looks that he created fifteen thousand full sized, cardboard cut-outs of her picture and placed them all around his office.
Etymology: Adore, copy
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)
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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Repligate
Created by: autophile
Pronunciation: rep-li-gate
Sentence: This app is hot, I repligated it on my share!
Etymology: Portmanteau of replicate (to copy) + propagate (to spread)
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COMMENTS:
Alternative spelling: replagate - autophile, 2007-05-07: 19:39:00
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Plagiarific
Created by: Stevenson0
Pronunciation: plag/er/if/ick
Sentence: Teddy was a plagiarific salesman of the latest and greatest ideas he "borrowed" from the business books on the 'Best Sellers List'.
Etymology: plagiarize + terrific
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COMMENTS:
rolls off the tongue. - teleolurian, 2007-05-07: 19:11:00
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Praegorian
Created by: Peepeedance
Pronunciation: pray-gore-ee-uhn
Sentence: The CIA denies involvement in assassinating Mister Wiggles, but the circumstances surrounding his death were rather praegorian.
Etymology: Praetorian + gory
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COMMENTS:
Hehe, whoops, does not correspond to the definition...Pretty nifty anyway, eh? - Peepeedance, 2007-05-07: 21:28:00
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Propulate
Created by: Pasicheio
Pronunciation:
Sentence: A good song, given file sharing capabilities, will quickly propulate until everyone has a copy
Etymology: Propagate
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