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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.
Verboticisms
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Findbyringin
Created by: emilylind
Pronunciation: Say 'find' then ' by ' and finally , Ring and in "
Sentence: To track cellphones down , I like to findbyringin
Etymology:
Crypthphon
Created by: ashrogers1734
Pronunciation:
Sentence: I must crypthphon quickly! My phone has been lost for days, try to listen for the ring!
Etymology: Crypth - hidden or secret Phon - sound or telephone
Tonely
Created by: earljw
Pronunciation: tohn-lee
Sentence: When I called my cell I could hear its tonely sound coming from the pocket of my jeans. Now if I only knew where I left my jeans.
Etymology: tone + lonely
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COMMENTS:
nice word. brings back bad memories though - leechdude, 2007-11-09: 20:50:00
Celp! - purpleartichokes, 2007-11-10: 05:12:00
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Hyperphonism
Created by: ysledd
Pronunciation:
Sentence: His hyperphonism was beginning to give me a headache.
Etymology: Hyper-, excessive phon-, sound, voice ism-, belief in
Cryptphon
Created by: JoshB
Pronunciation:
Sentence: Jimmy was cryptphoning all night looking for his lost phone.
Etymology: Crypt means hidden, and phon means phone.
Selfphone
Created by: purpleartichokes
Pronunciation: self-fone
Sentence: When rummaging through the dirty laundry, garbage, and refrigerator didn't work, Bob tried to selfphone his number in the hope that he could hear his lost phone.
Etymology: cel phone, self
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COMMENTS:
I dig it. - dubld, 2007-11-09: 09:40:00
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Blackdingleberry
Created by: Kyoti
Pronunciation: Black-DING-gull-bare-ree
Sentence: Ricky had to blackdingleberry his smartphone for 15 minutes before he finally found it in his pants pocket, in the laundry bin, in the basement, just before Hildegarde dropped it into the washing machine.
Etymology: Black: as in 'black hole' + Blackberry: a popular cell phone organizer gizmo + Ding: a vague and unspecific ringtone + Dingleberry: what you feel like when you can't find your cell phone.
Buzzterbation
Created by: thegoatisbad
Pronunciation: buz-ter-bay-shon
Sentence: Even though she knew it was a sin to spill her cell on the couch, Kimberly often fell asleep playing snake on her Nokia 5110 while watching Animal Planet. She often woke up and would buzzterbate frantically, searching through layer and layer of snuggie and slanket for the precious piece of pulsating plastic that once saved her life.
Etymology: buzz (to call) + -terbation (well, I'm a little embarrassed to say)
Hideandgobeep
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: hahyd-n-goh-beep
Sentence: Jerry is one of the few people under 30 who still has a land-line phone. He never calls anybody on it. None of his friends even know the number. He only uses it when he plays hideandgobeep to locate the cell phone he misplaces at least three times a day.
Etymology: hide-and-go-seek (one of a variety of children's games in which, according to specified rules, one player gives the others a chance to hide and then attempts to find them) + beep (a short, relatively high-pitched tone produced by a horn or electronic device)
Callphone
Created by: irving
Pronunciation:
Sentence: i'm try to find my callphone does anybody find it
Etymology: callphone is when you looking for something but you never find it
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COMMENTS:
cool - irving, 2014-04-30: 14:37:00
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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