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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.
Verboticisms
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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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Plastastrophy
Created by: alphabetapolothology
Pronunciation: plas-TAS-tro-fee
Sentence:
Etymology: plastic & catastrophe
Lacewrapper
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: las-uh-rap-er
Sentence: The doctor was very concerned at the state in which his patient arrived at the emergency room. His hands looked like they had been slashed with a broken bottle. Even his gums were bleeding. Turns out he was attempting to remove the lacewrapper from his newly-purchased e-gadget.
Etymology: lacerate (to tear roughly) wrapper (a covering or cover)
Awraposis
Created by: OZZIEBOB
Pronunciation: aw-rap-OH-sis
Sentence: Whenever Bob was needed to open skrink-wrapped items, it was not long before he began to wrapambulate wildly. A wraposcopy revealed that he had a severe case of awraposis. It was suggested that the condition was passed on to him from his father, but he refuses to take the rap. His "shrink" is still searching worldwide for a cure; and, hopefully, for Bob's sake, the matter will be wrapped-up soon.
Etymology: Blend of AWRY: disordered, disarranged, gone wrong; AWE: fear, dread, fright; WRAP: put something around, cover; & -OSIS: suffix usu. denoting a medical term or condition (pyschosis)
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COMMENTS:
your logic is very clear - Jabberwocky, 2008-08-18: 13:06:00
That's a Wrap for me...I'm in Wrapsody! - Nosila, 2008-08-18: 21:15:00
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Wrapscallion
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: rap skal leon
Sentence: The Cd's and Dvd's were so painful to open, that George suspected an unscrupulous wrapscallion plot was afoot. Yes after careful examination, he decided it was a nefarious scheme, the same one which kept the elderly from getting at their meds' bottles. Or the unenlightened to try and open a package of sticky notes. Why even the clever new knife designed specifically to open such hard plastic packages came in one...what was the world coming to???
Etymology: Wrap (packaging;the covering (usually paper or cellophane) in which something is wrapped) & Rapscallion (a deceitful and unreliable scoundrel)
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COMMENTS:
brilliant! - libertybelle, 2011-04-19: 08:10:00
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Shrincrap
Created by: ziggy41
Pronunciation: Shring-crap
Sentence: I felt that I grew dumber as I fumbled with the CD case trying to open it. Within minutes, I found myself smashing the case against my head in a failed attempt to open it. It wasn't until I tried using scissors, and damaging the CD, that I had known I had been truely shrinkwrapped.
Etymology: Shrinkwrap (annoying plastic on CD case) + crap (term of frustration; as in "Crap! I can't get this stupid plastic off.")
Peelandheal
Created by: surfstang
Pronunciation: peel/n/heel
Sentence: I wanted to open up my brand new memory card but the peelandheal stopped that from happening.
Etymology: peel + heal
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COMMENTS:
I wanted to add peel-n-heal, but wasn't allowed to. - surfstang, 2007-05-18: 00:09:00
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Plastistunned
Created by: serendipity9000
Pronunciation: PLAS-ti-stun-ed
Sentence: I was desperate to listen to my new CD, but after fifteen minutes of wrestling with the shrink wrap I just sat on the floor plastistunned for a while and stared into space.
Etymology: Plasti (from plastic) + stunned (shocked or knocked out)
Boobywrapped
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: boōbērapt
Sentence: Janet finally broke down and bought one of those devices that was made to open those horrible game packages only to realize that it too was boobywrapped.
Etymology: booby-trap (a thing designed to catch the unwary, in particular) + wrapped (cover or enclose someone or something)
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COMMENTS:
seriously clever - mweinmann, 2009-12-01: 07:49:00
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Incaplasticate
Created by: benjamin
Pronunciation: in-ka-plas-ti-kate
Sentence: Despite his PhD in mechanical engineering(and a terrible taste in music) Rory was unable to open his new Goo Goo Dolls CD.
Etymology: incapacitate + plastic
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COMMENTS:
I like it. - petaj, 2007-05-16: 01:54:00
thank you - benjamin, 2007-05-16: 11:14:00
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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