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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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Need-dial
Created by: rikboyee
Pronunciation: need-diyul
Sentence: i find it helpful to put need-dial on speed-dial
Etymology: need, speed dial
Cowcell
Created by: jrogan
Pronunciation: cow-sel
Sentence: Not only do I keep losing my phone, but also keep forgetting where I am, so my wife tied a cellphone around my neck and told me to call it whenever I get lost. It works! 'Cause now I know where I am -- right here.
Etymology: Cowbell transformed by a cellular phone
Crypthesis
Created by: delanybug
Pronunciation:
Sentence: I lost my phone a few days ago, its now in a crypthesis place never to be seen again.
Etymology: crypt-hidden the-place a hidden place, no where to be found.
Awtellme
Created by: looseball
Pronunciation: awe tell me
Sentence: listen I hit the awtellme button
Etymology:
Cellfing
Created by: hendrixius
Pronunciation: "selfing"
Sentence: I've been cellfing my phone for hours, to no avail...I must have left it at the pub.
Etymology:
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)
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
Lostandphoned
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: lost and foned
Sentence: Stanley's swinging bachelor pad was always such a mess that he usually misplaced his cell phone. The only way he could ever find it was to call it from the land phone and trace it. He called it the lostandphoned method. Too bad they had not yet invented a similar idea for missing eyeglasses...like if you made a spectacle of yourself, they would come into sight. Maybe if Stanley cleaned his place he wouldn't always lose his stuff!
Etymology: Play on Lost & Found (A repository in a public place, as in a school or theater, where found items are kept for reclaiming by their owners.) & Phoned (called on the telephone)
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COMMENTS:
Good one - karenanne, 2010-03-08: 12:30:00
Good word. Just what I would have thought if I thought of it. - artr, 2010-03-08: 15:07:00
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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)
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
Comments:
Today's definition was suggested by kabloozie. Thank you kabloozie! ~ James'
Today's definition was suggested by kabloozie. Thank you kabloozie. ~ James