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DEFINITION: v., To call your cellphone when you have misplaced it, hoping that it will ring so that you can locate it. n., The sound of a lost cellphone.
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Locataring
Created by: Tigger
Pronunciation: lō-kā'-tə-rĭng
Sentence: Instead of burrowing through the dozen or so piles and clothes and other junk in his room to find his cellphone, Kevin just picked up his home phone and pulled off a locataring, successfully homing in on the muffletone coming from the pocket of the jeans he wore yesterday.
Etymology: locate (Latin. locāre, locāt-, to place, from locus, place.) + a + ring (Old English. hringan)
Hyperphonism
Created by: ysledd
Pronunciation:
Sentence: His hyperphonism was beginning to give me a headache.
Etymology: Hyper-, excessive phon-, sound, voice ism-, belief in
Cellflocation
Created by: petaj
Pronunciation: self-location
Sentence: Miranda had misplaced her mobile phone so many times that she had downloaded a special ringtone of Kelly Clarkson's song "you found me" for those cellflocation calls. At last she had really found herself.
Etymology: cell (as in cellphone) + self + location (the act of finding something)
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COMMENTS:
If it were only so easy to "find one's self"... Kudos for working Kelly Clarkson into your sentence. "Aaah, Kelly Clarkson!! -- Steve Carell, from 'The 40 Year Old Virgin' - Tigger, 2007-11-09: 02:56:00
good one petaj - Jabberwocky, 2007-11-09: 10:20:00
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Lostone
Created by: vmalcolm
Pronunciation: /lɔ:stəʊn/
Sentence: Shh, shh, please, allow me to lostone my cell... Try to locate its lostone, can you hear it?
Etymology: LOSTONE. From Lost (No longer in the possession, care, or control of someone or something) + Ringtone (A ringtone or ring tone is the sound made by a telephone to indicate an incoming call)
Clutterring
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: klətərring
Sentence: Charley is quite poor at keeping track of things. He never sets things down in the same place twice. Things end up in the strangest places. He is still trying to figure out how one of his socks ended up in a mayonnaise jar in the fridge, but that*s a different story. His current challenge is to not loose his company-issued Blackberry. He has tried several unique techniques. First there was the gecko location which involved rubber-banding the phone to his pet lizard. FAIL! Mr. Green Britches just shed a tail and went off to sell insurance. Then he tried the string theory. He tied a string around his finger and one around the phone with the thought that like things attract. FAIL! He attached a cookie with a thought that somehow his computer would help him. FAIL! Following the ants only worked for a short time. Finally he has a method that works, clutterring. He bought a tiny, cheap cell that he keeps on a cord around his neck and calls the Blackberry when he needs it. If it is dark, the light on the phone acts like one of those **as seen on TV** specials, the Clapper.(clapperring)
Etymology: clutter (a collection of things lying about in an untidy mass) + ring (of a telephone; produce a series of resonant or vibrating sounds to signal an incoming call)
Masturtweet
Created by: trademagrag
Pronunciation: mass-ter-tweet
Sentence: I found my phone, but it was a bit embarrassing when my roommate caught me masturtweeting.
Etymology: masturbate + tweet
Calltrawl
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: kawl trawl
Sentence: When Fred's room got so messy that he'd lose his cellphone, he made a calltrawl from his landline to find it.
Etymology: Call (a telephone connection) & Trawl (to fish for something;search)
Gronkdialing
Created by: milorush
Pronunciation: (n.) grŏngk'dīl-ĭng; (tr. v.) grŏngk'dīl
Sentence: Gronkdialing is a useful technique up until the cellphone battery dies.
Etymology: gronk = (a fool or idiot) + [drunk]dialing
Blackberring
Created by: mrskellyscl
Pronunciation: black-bear-ring
Sentence: My blackberry gets blackburied in my purse so I have to blackberring it to find it.
Etymology: blackberry: smart phone + ring: phone sound
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COMMENTS:
blackburied...love it - Nosila, 2010-03-08: 23:47:00
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Comments:
Today's definition was suggested by kabloozie. Thank you kabloozie! ~ James'
Today's definition was suggested by kabloozie. Thank you kabloozie. ~ James