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DEFINITION: n. The weird feelings that rise up when you notice that you are being followed by a police officer, or a cop car, or the Special Forces Anti-Terrorist Unit. v. To feel nervous, self-conscious and guilty whenever you see a police officer.
Verboticisms
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Poleeseyes
Created by: scissorlips
Pronunciation: Poh-LEE-siz
Sentence: It was an awkward, paranoid moment where the cops had surrounded the perimeter of the beach where I was sunbathing and a sickened state of poleeseyes that caused a sudden case of diarrhea.
Etymology:
Susspooked
Created by: purpleartichokes
Pronunciation: sus-spookd
Sentence: Seeing the cop car in her rear view mirror, Alice felt susspooked, recalling that just yesterday she had ripped off from her mattress the DO NOT REMOVE UNDER PENALTY OF LAW tag.
Etymology: suspect, spooked
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COMMENTS:
Not the mattress tag!? Oh, that's hilarious. - Tigger, 2008-03-20: 11:57:00
Great originality! It ssssssslides over the tongue and ends with a poke ... fun to say and a fun sentence ... Double Kudos to you today! - silveryaspen, 2008-03-20: 16:03:00
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Copprehension
Created by: OZZIEBOB
Pronunciation: COP-pre-hen-shun
Sentence: Whenever a police car approached Roxie, she always felt fuzzicky. And, despite watching hours of "Cops," she still couldn't figure out how to overcome her copprehension. Bob told her to stop squinching; her fears were silly; everything would be copasetic.
Etymology: Blend of COP: policeman; APPREHENSION :1. arrest 2.fear, anxiety, dread. Fuzzicky(Fuzz:police & panicky) SQUINCH: to watch and wait, hoping things will turn out one's own way; to anticipate ("Burgess Unabridged")
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COMMENTS:
Ooh, good one. - ErWenn, 2008-03-20: 01:06:00
nice - I like copasetic too - Jabberwocky, 2008-03-20: 11:04:00
Double Kudos for Doubly Great Creates. Copasetic is now in the dictionary and can be spelled either copacetic or copasetic. At least in the online Encarta dictionary and dictionary.com - silveryaspen, 2008-03-20: 16:27:00
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Coptick
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: kop tik
Sentence: whenever she say a panda car in the rear view, her coptick would start. a nervous twitch on the right side of her face that would work its way down to the accelerator foot within two blocks.
Etymology: coptic, cop, tic.
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COMMENTS:
Tip top word ... er tick cop word! - silveryaspen, 2009-01-12: 10:32:00
funny - Jabberwocky, 2009-01-12: 12:06:00
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Gendarmealarm
Created by: Jabberwocky
Pronunciation: jahn/darm/alarm
Sentence: I experience such acute gendarmealarm that I even break into a sweat when I see a hall monitor from a French immersion school.
Etymology: gendarme + alarm
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COMMENTS:
incroyable! - galwaywegian, 2009-01-12: 08:16:00
Bilingual Kudos! - silveryaspen, 2009-01-12: 10:57:00
immersion school...is that like a sensory deprivation tank? - metrohumanx, 2009-01-12: 17:52:00
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Copress
Created by: Anemeus
Pronunciation: [kɑːpres]
Sentence: Copress is the feeling that rise up being followed by policemen. Examples: "I am feeling copress" "It was copress for the police cars behind him"
Etymology: Cop, policeman Stress, be stressed
Narcojitters
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: nahrk-o-jit-erz
Sentence: Some twenty years ago, in college Marcia was at a party where somebody was smoking something that didn't smell like cigarettes. To this day she gets the narcojitters whenever she sees a vehicle that she thinks might be an unmarked police car.
Etymology: narc (a government agent or detective charged with the enforcement of laws restricting the use of narcotics) + jitters (nervousness; a feeling of fright or uneasiness)
Coughicer
Created by: simoneshin
Pronunciation: cough-icer
Sentence:
Etymology: a cough is a sudden and often repetitively occurring defence reflex which helps to clear the large breathing passages from excess secretions, irritants, foreign particles
Themanarrhea
Created by: Stevenson0
Pronunciation: the/man/ar/rhe/a
Sentence: Whenever Bev noticed a squad car in her rear-view mirror, an extreme nervous fear and paranoia overtook her, giving her an immediate case of themanarrhea.
Etymology: THEMANARRHEA - noun - from - THE MAN )Slang. an expression for the police) + DIARRHEA (an intestinal disorder characterized by abnormal frequency and fluidity of fecal evacuations)
Hulmos
Created by: Soyabaa96
Pronunciation: Hul` mos
Sentence: I get a feeling of hulmos when I see a cop.
Etymology:
Comments:
Today's definition was suggested by Nosila. Thank you Nosila. ~ James
mokelmoney - 2009-01-12: 12:32:00
copetrinoia
mokelmoney - 2009-01-12: 12:38:00
copetrinoia: cop/ e/ tri/ noia- to be petrified of the cops to the point of paranoia. Also, not change the subject [no pun intended] ,however I have made numerous contributions. Why are they being disregarded? Please check again...thats Bea Helfy or mokelmoney. Thank you
Today's definition was suggested by Nosila. Thank you Nosila. ~ James
DiplomatUfimskmef - 2018-05-27: 19:30:00
Уважаемые пользователи, друзья! Хотелось бы поделиться несложной и оч
GeorgeSib - 2018-05-27: 19:51:00
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