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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)
Lubbit
Created by: imagica
Pronunciation:
Sentence: The woman's new purse was definitly a lubbit, must-have!
Etymology:
Kipcrat
Created by: thefreewheeler
Pronunciation: kip crat
Sentence: Everyday I kipcrat five songs and send them to un-enlightened heathens.
Etymology: Rudyard Kipling "Take Up White Man's Burden" + crat: advocate or partisan of
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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Giftliferation
Created by: katytee
Pronunciation: trips off the tongue
Sentence: in an act of unsolicited giftliferation,simon distributed handwritten copies of 'who moved my cheese' to his colleagues. Everyone hated Simon.
Etymology: (Proliferation + Gift)
Perfeocast
Created by: brucee10
Pronunciation: Pur-fee-o-cast
Sentence: That song is so tight I had to perfeocast it out to my peeps on Myspace.
Etymology: Perfect + Mimeograph + broadcast
Lamogrande
Created by: DavidShantz
Pronunciation: Lay-mo-gran-day
Sentence: This guy won't last a week, LamoGrande
Etymology: Lame (surf)+ Oh + Grande (Spanish) Meaning: ineffective and maladroit on a monumental scale
Porkbomb
Created by: 0xdeadbeef
Pronunciation:
Sentence: Market-terrorists porkbombed the student protest with free samples of smart drinks and soy snacks, infecting the naive who didn't read the retrovirally-enforced brand loyalty EULAs.
Etymology: from forkbomb - the catastrophic cloning of software processes, and the supposed main ingredient of Spam
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COMMENTS:
Oh noes! It won't let me submit another one! I thought of another one that skirts the definition a little. This one is limited to the sweet old ladies in your life as they discover the internet: gramspam - Deleting "Footprints", "sick kid wants cards", and "scary urban legend" for the n-millionth time, Oswald grimaces at "Otters holding hands", dreading the coming deluge of YouTube inspired gramspam. - 0xdeadbeef, 2007-05-08: 02:43:00
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Esteemulate
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: es teem yu late
Sentence: A lot of money and prestige was riding on it. How many other young comedians had gotten the chance to star on not just one hit series, but three at a time? How did he get his scripts memorized, rehearse and do all those press appearances for the media? People often wondered, until they met his large family, especially his twin brother, Larry. Larry had invented the Esteemulate Machine. Yes, you guessed it, he had esteemulated several copies of his famous brother, Drew Carey, so that he could star simultaneously on several hit shows. There was his own show, "The Drew Carey Show";his "Whose Line is it Anyway" show and now he was replacing Bob Barker on "The Price is Right". Not to mentioned all his appearances on "The Tonight Show"; "Last Comic Standing"; "Conan O'Brien";"Craig Ferguson" and "Oprah";"Ellen DeGeneres" and of course, "What Not To Wear"(...okay, he hadn't really been on that show, but he should have) Yes, Larry was so proud of his brother, he became a real Drew-Id!
Etymology: esteem(an attitude of admiration or esteem; a feeling of delighted approval and liking;regard highly; think much of) & take your pick: simulate;imitate;replicate;duplicate;emulate;recreate (all meaning to copy or reproduce)
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COMMENTS:
ESTEEMULATE by Nosila gets a very high ranking in my book.
As usual, we get a LOT of bang for our BUCK.....Thanks. - metrohumanx, 2008-07-07: 08:50:00
All those big bucks!! Impressive...that's a lot of esteemed clams. - Mustang, 2008-07-07: 19:03:00
Clever blend - OZZIEBOB, 2008-07-07: 19:33:00
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Philanthroplicate
Created by: ErWenn
Pronunciation: /fɪlənˈθɹɑpləˌkeɪt/
Sentence: The bootlegger justified selling his camrecorded copy of _Spider-man 3_ by convincing himself that he was just philanthroplicating.
Etymology: From philantropy + duplicate
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COMMENTS:
It's a long word, but I just love the sound of it. Try saying out-loud before not voting for it...now isn't that fun! - ErWenn, 2007-05-07: 13:46:00
I agree. Perfect for the defintion! - wordmeister, 2007-05-07: 21:43:00
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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