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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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Sheiladixoned
Created by: yaknowmay
Pronunciation: sheila-dixoned
Sentence: I SHEILA-DIXONED THE HELL OUT OF MY HAND TRYING TO GET TO ALL THE GIFTS, THEE GIFT CARDS WERE USED TO PURCHASE.
Etymology:
Stinkwrap
Created by: libertybelle
Pronunciation: stink- rap
Sentence: After fighting the stinkwrap keeping me from my much sought after Sims game, I finally broke down and chewed the plastic off. I would have been more upset, but I did grow up during hte time when new CDs came in a plastic cage, making it impossible to listen to them before you could get home and cut away the plastic with bolt cutters. That was the 90s version of stinkwrap.
Etymology: stink (as in that stinks to voice displeasure) + shrinkwrap
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COMMENTS:
smelly good... - Nosila, 2011-04-20: 21:34:00
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Emestearrorize
Created by: ohwtepph
Pronunciation: ehm - ehs - TEH - roh - rayz
Sentence: After several surgeries on Jane, including allograft, blepharoplasty, hallus valcux correction, nail avulsion, hip hemiarthoplasty, imperforate anus repair, metacarpophalangeal fusion surgery, syndactyly repair, perineal anoplasty, transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt, and digit revascularization [all these otherwise known as hand surgery], Jane says she will never forget the day she was emestearrorized when she met that dastardly darn Windows Vista shrink-wrapped case.
Etymology: MS [expanded into em-es] [oh, come on! Microsoft and its dastardly darn software] [number one terrorist of the entire generation] + tear [to rip] + terrorize [to spread terror; to be filled with extreme terror; to be subject to a terrorist attack]
Shrinkgrapple
Created by: mplsbohemian
Pronunciation: SHRIHNGK-grap-puhl
Sentence: Alex sustained two bloodied knuckles from shrinkgrappling with his new DVD.
Etymology: shrink wrap + grapple
Cellopain
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: sell oh payn
Sentence: The cellopain was exacerbated by the broken Windows
Etymology: cellophane, pain
Wrapjured
Created by: geoamnesia
Pronunciation:
Sentence: Mary whimpered softly as she accepted the gift DVD, she was already wrapjured, but her friends were watching and she had to go through with it.
Etymology: Wrap - shrink-wrap + injure
Foil
Created by: whipspeak
Pronunciation: foil
Sentence: Fact: CD Foil is a leading cause of music downloading.
Etymology: foil: thin packaging material + foil: to prevent from being successful;thwart;frustrate
Selfmusication
Created by: heartnsoul
Pronunciation: self-mu-sik-a-shun
Sentence: It was the same horrific scene every Friday: bleary-eyed new-release addicts appeared with paychecks in their bandaged hands to feed their need for selfmusication. The packages always won, but the addicts kept coming!
Etymology: self + music / mutilation
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COMMENTS:
Come on. Admit it. You know you know I mean you! - heartnsoul, 2007-05-16: 01:42:00
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Plastuck
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: plah stuk
Sentence: he was severely plastuck as he attempted to get the covers off his lates piece of madonna.
Etymology: plastic, stuck as in "bleeding like a stuck pig"
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COMMENTS:
Love it! - purpleartichokes, 2007-05-15: 07:14:00
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Devolouchtion
Created by: mana1066
Pronunciation: devol-ouch-shun
Sentence: When i has the urge to sling my poop and eat a banana, i knew sever devolouction had kicked in.so instead of watching a movie, i slung it.
Etymology: devolution + ouch
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