Verboticisms

Created by: scrabbelicious

Pronunciation: smɑːtːʃɒt

Sentence: Buster became very swift with the old 1:2, or was it 4:3? It didn't matter, the smartshot was another knockout.

Etymology: Smart : Clever like a phone, ring like a good verbotomy word. Shot : Photograph, perhaps cheap. Also to strike a blow, esp. in boxing.

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Created by: jajsr

Pronunciation: In-cahg-foe-toe

Sentence: Any time Jane would see something she thought was odd, she would whip out her cell phone and snap an incogphoto.

Etymology: Combination of "Incog" from incognito - with one's identity sealed; and "photo".

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Excellent - TJayzz, 2009-02-06: 14:15:00

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Created by: wilburoinks

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Created by: silveryaspen

Pronunciation: ho cuss foh cuss

Sentence: Len's covert cell phone hocusfocus makes him a real shudderbug.

Etymology: Hocus Pocus, Focus. Hocus Pocus - a trickery. Focus - 1. Camera adjustment to obtain a sharper, clearer photo.

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Was difficult to chose between these two verbotomies. - silveryaspen, 2009-02-06: 00:37:00

Very clever...two for the price of one! - Mustang, 2009-02-06: 07:18:00

Wonderful play on words....hocusfocus or focuspocus....both say it all... - mweinmann, 2009-02-06: 08:14:00

very nice - Jabberwocky, 2009-02-06: 11:56:00

Good word...lens itself to many ideas. He may end up being framed if he has any more exposure! - Nosila, 2009-02-06: 22:27:00

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Created by: Nosila

Pronunciation: sello foto

Sentence: Now everyone who owns a cell phone has become a paparazzo. When they see a famous person, they quick use their cell phone camera to get a candid shot, which in turn they try to market to the newspapers and magazines. It is a cellophoto moment, where a picture of a cellebrity is something you can sellaphoto to the media.

Etymology: Cell (cellular telephone;a hand-held mobile radiotelephone for use in an area divided into small sections (cells), each with its own short-range transmitter/receiver) & Telephoto (a photograph made with a telephoto lens)

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Created by: Nosila

Pronunciation: kon sel ling

Sentence: Jane became concerned that she was being cyberstalked and that the stalker was concelling her all the time. The fact that her hunter only took pictures of her ear should have been her first clue that she had accidently hit a button and was stalking herself.

Etymology: Concealing (hiding;doing something coverly or secretly) & Celling (using a cell app)

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Created by: artr

Pronunciation: snapäpərätsē

Sentence: As a food-issue counselor, Joan was more than embarrassed to see a picture a picture of herself coming out of KFC. Some snaparazzi secretly snapped her picture because he (or she) thought her outfit was funny and posted on Facebook. She didn’t even know it existed until a friend of a friend tagged the photo with her name. So far she hasn’t been successful convincing anybody that the large bucket in the pic was just a convenient way to carry a number of salads.

Etymology: snap (an informal photograph taken quickly) + Paparazzi (a freelance photographer who pursues celebrities to get photographs of them)

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Created by: neljifer

Pronunciation: Just like the words sneak and shot.

Sentence: I was mortified when I caught my younger brother taking a sneakshot of me playing air guitar in my bedroom.

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Created by: Alysonia

Pronunciation: Cree-per-ta-grah-fee

Sentence: "Someone is stalking me and sending me some serious creepertography." Can also be: "Look at this picture I found on Ted's phone of the back of my neck! He is such a Creepertographer!"

Etymology: A "creep," someone who is really sketchy, in the action of being sketchy and stalking becomes a "creeper," combined with "photography" thus forms creep-er-tography.

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Creepertography/Creepertographers - Alysonia, 2009-02-06: 14:08:00

Reminds me of a line from an old fun song: 'Jeerpers! Creepers! Where'd ya get those eyes?' Great create - silveryaspen, 2009-02-06: 22:18:00

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Created by: TJayzz

Pronunciation: Mow-bial-gy-al

Sentence: Fiona used mobileguile to take a photo of the new manager at work (who she had the hots for) to show all her friends in the pub how gorgeous he was.

Etymology: Mobile(as mobile phone) + Guile(sly,cunning) = Mobileguile

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A rhyme is good anytime! Nice one - silveryaspen, 2009-02-06: 22:19:00

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