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DEFINITION: v. To turn up the volume on your ipod and zone out all exterior noise, chatter, distractions, and focus on what's really important - your own feelings! n. A person who is humming their own tune, and ignoring everything else.
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Dittydunce
Created by: remistram
Pronunciation: dittie-dunce
Sentence: She was acused of being a dittydunce when her tone-deaf humming made all the neighbourhood dogs run for cover.
Etymology: ditty (song, tune) + dunce (idiot, simpleton)
Intunent
Created by: EonaFrae
Pronunciation: in-two-nent
Sentence: With the music blaring and her arms shaking, Rebecca's intunent energy was contagious.
Etymology: In [prefix: in, into] + Tune [a succession of musical sounds forming a melody] + Ent [suffix: full of]
Buboomville
Created by: egonschiela
Pronunciation: bub-oom-vil
Sentence: It was useless shouting at Tracy; she was away in buboomville.
Etymology: buboom buboom buboom (you've all heard it) + ville (Fr.) area.
Obmusicate
Created by: Carla
Pronunciation: Verb: ob-mUs-i-kait Noun: ob-mUs-i-kuht
Sentence: Verb: Travellers on the London Underground frequently obmusicate. Noun: (Usually teenager) "Please turn off your music at the dinner table - you're such an obmusicate".
Etymology: From 'ob' (against).
Knoblivion
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: nob liv ee yon
Sentence: When Olivia hit the volume button on her ipod, she managed to enter her own little world, unaware of anything around her. She created a world of knoblivion, where nothing else existed but her. It was during this state of knoblivion that she failed to notice the red sports car that barely missed her and had to swerve into a big tree, flipping over the vehicle and trapping the driver. Calamities to others followed her until one day, she ignored the warning bells and the 4:15 downtown bus punched her ticket permanently.
Etymology: Knob (dial;button that controls volume) & Oblivion (forgetfulness;a state of being unaware)
Ituneout
Created by: celeron450
Pronunciation: "eye-toon-owt"
Sentence: On stressful Subway rides, Glenda would often ituneout.
Etymology: iTunes, tune out
Podaway
Created by: Adamson
Pronunciation: pod-a-way
Sentence: A nuke, no prob man, I'll just podaway from that sheed !
Etymology: Pod (iPod)+away
Inthezone
Created by: Flamechick911
Pronunciation: In-the-zone
Sentence: Later on they told me she'd been screaming my name for an hour, but I can't help it if I'm inthezone.
Etymology: from zoning out
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