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DEFINITION: v. To injure oneself physically, or to be reduced to a state of mental incapacity, when attempting to open shrink-wrapped CDs, DVDs or software. n. Packaging that is painfully difficult to open.
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Cellopain
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: sell oh payn
Sentence: The cellopain was exacerbated by the broken Windows
Etymology: cellophane, pain
Shrinkcut
Created by: DaddiezGyrl
Pronunciation:
Sentence: I opened it carefully, to avoid getting shrinkcut.
Etymology: Combo of shrink+cut
Dewrapertate
Created by: wordguy120
Pronunciation: De-wraper-tate
Sentence: my fingers where derapertated by that stuff
Etymology:
Plastinjure
Created by: remistram
Pronunciation: plast-in-jer
Sentence: Biff was severely plastinjured whilst opening his High School Musical DVD.
Etymology: Plast (as in plastic), injure (to damage, impair)
Wrattack
Created by: weareallbeautiful
Pronunciation: r-ah-t-ah-k
Sentence: The monkey wrattacked himself.
Etymology: wrap+attack
Skinjury
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: skinn juhr eeeeeeeeeeeee
Sentence: He skinjured himself on Michael jackson's greatest hits. how is it? his mother called. Bar he replied
Etymology: injury skin
Shrapped
Created by: jonobo
Pronunciation: "Sh" like in *Sholy-Hit* + "rapped" like in *trapped* and/or in *shrinkwrapped*.
Sentence: He was bruce-absolute-lee trapped in shrinkophrenic autoaggression - he was "shrapped". He shrapped himself to death. She shrapped her nails off to ground zero.
Etymology: Evolved through several evolutionhairy steps from autopackaggressive over shrinkoscratchic, shrinkwrapautoaggression, pacgkgressive , shrinkophrene and autoshrappive into the final form of "trapped in shrinkophrenic autoaggression" - or short: "shrapped".
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COMMENTS:
verbotomy needs more words like this, words that are evocative of their definitions rather than just two words smooshed together. well done. - benjamin, 2007-05-15: 09:50:00
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Shrinkorrhage
Created by: Stevenson0
Pronunciation: shrink/orr/ige
Sentence: Shrinkorrhage is the the painful mental stress and sometimes bloody result of the twenty minute ordeal I go through every time I buy a new CD.
Etymology: SHRINKORRHAGE - noun - from SHRINKWRAP (a flexible film of plastic that, when exposed to a heating process, shrinks to the contour of the merchandise) + HEMORRHAGE (a profuse discharge of blood; any uncontrolled loss, including sanity, when dealing with shrinkwrapped CD's)
Comments:
Today's definition was suggested by two writers: mana1066 and autophile. Thank you mana1066 and autophile! ~ James
Today's definition was suggested by mana1066. Thank you mana1066. ~ James