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'Some weirdo keeps taking pictures on my ear!'

DEFINITION: v. To secretly take a photo of someone with your cellphone. n. A cellphone photo, especially if it was taken surreptitiously.

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Hocusfocus

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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COMMENTS:

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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Creepertography

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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Photosecrosy

Created by: tripnfallpivot

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Sentence: I just hate People commiting Photosecrosy!

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Smartshot

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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Cellphimage

Created by: Jabberwocky

Pronunciation: self/imaj

Sentence: A new kind of paparozzo has emerged with self centered narcissists being able to check their makeup etc on the subway by means of cellphimage photos taken with their cellphones.

Etymology: cell phone + image

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COMMENTS:

I'm always looking forward to what you will think up next. Never thought of this aspect. Fun and Unique! - silveryaspen, 2009-02-06: 11:00:00

Another clever word! - TJayzz, 2009-02-06: 14:17:00

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Mobileguile

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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Photosinthisis

Created by: Mustang

Pronunciation: foe-toe-SIN-this-is

Sentence: Knowing she was once again committing an act of photosinthisis by sneaking a picture of Clayton while he showered, Lewellen nevertheless went ahead with the deed.

Etymology: Blend of PHOTO + SIN + THIS + IS Word play on the word photosynthesis. Dunno why, it just had a cool sound.

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Incogphoto

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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Shytterbuggy

Created by: kateinkorea

Pronunciation: SHY ter BUG gy

Sentence: Some freaky guy is weirding me out because he takes pictures of my hands, my ears, my lunch box, my feet, my everything. As soon as I turn around he starts to shyterbuggy me. He thinks I don't know. Yesterday I saw him sitting in the cafeteria admiring all of his pictures of me when he didn't realize I was standing behind him.

Etymology: SHY: nervous or embarrassed to come near someone SHUTTERBUG: a person who really likes to take photos BUGGY: slang for crazy

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Spiphone

Created by: galwaywegian

Pronunciation: sp eye fowhn

Sentence: Thanks to his spiphone, Veronica's secret no longer was.

Etymology: spy iphone

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COMMENTS:

ROFL! Supremely funny sentence wtih a superb verbote. - silveryaspen, 2009-02-06: 11:04:00

terrific - Jabberwocky, 2009-02-06: 11:57:00

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Comments:

Verbotomy Verbotomy - 2009-02-06: 00:01:01
Today's definition was suggested by silveryaspen. Thank you silveryaspen. ~ James

Verbotomy Verbotomy - 2010-08-23: 00:09:00
Today's definition was suggested by silveryaspen. Thank you silveryaspen. ~ James