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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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Vibraflinrin
Created by: idavecook
Pronunciation: Vibe + Flin + Rin
Sentence: Alright bro, I'm gonna vibraflinrin my cell, so shut your mouth already!
Etymology: Vibrate + Fling + Ring
Purscellual
Created by: remistram
Pronunciation: per-sell-yu-uhl
Sentence: The piles of clothes and junk made for a difficult purcellual, luckily his dad had a metal detector.
Etymology: pursual (search) + cell (phone)
Locaphoning
Created by: tuckerdognc
Pronunciation: Loca-fone, loca-foning
Sentence: Wait a sec. I'm locaphoning to find it right now. (Not to be confused with trying to locate your car: Locahonking.)
Etymology: Locating + the item or process: Locaphoning, Locahonking, Locabuzzing
Seafone
Created by: nhtbrink
Pronunciation: sea as in see, fone as in phone
Sentence: I'll try a seafone, perhaps I'll find it that way
Etymology:
Findbyringin
Created by: emilylind
Pronunciation: Say 'find' then ' by ' and finally , Ring and in "
Sentence: To track cellphones down , I like to findbyringin
Etymology:
Stolange
Created by: suchipatel
Pronunciation: Stoh - linj
Sentence: She spent the day stolanging in the hopes that she'd hear her ringtone in the clutter of her room.
Etymology: Stol - To send Angel - Message "To send a message"
Hiddaring
Created by: forlove169
Pronunciation: hid-a-ring
Sentence: When Jan could not find her phone, her last option was hiddaringing it to find its location.
Etymology: A combination of hidden and a ring.
Cryptomim
Created by: arandomperson97
Pronunciation:
Sentence: His phone was missing so he called it hoping to hear the ringtone.
Etymology: crypt-hidden o-song mim-to imitate
Reconnaiscelling
Created by: thebaron
Pronunciation: re-con-nais-cel-ling
Sentence: Jerry lost his phone again... So began the daily reconnaiscelling mission.....
Etymology:
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)
Comments:
Today's definition was suggested by kabloozie. Thank you kabloozie! ~ James'
Today's definition was suggested by kabloozie. Thank you kabloozie. ~ James