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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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Shrinkyjinxed

Created by: purpleartichokes

Pronunciation: shrin-kee-jinksd

Sentence: He was bleeding profusely from a variety of gaping wounds, so there was no doubt in my mind that Mark had become shrinkyjinxed from attempting to open his new CD. Still, I couldn't help but plastize him for soiling my pretty white tablecloth and carpet.

Etymology: shrinkydink, jinxed

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Shrinkripped

Created by: porsche

Pronunciation: shrink/ript

Sentence: After losing 3 fingernails to the latest CD in my collection I felt completely shrinkripped

Etymology: shrink wrap + ripped

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Foil

whipspeak

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

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Dvdeplete

karenanne

Created by: karenanne

Pronunciation: dee vee dee PLEET

Sentence: After trying for 20 minutes to open my new movie, I was so dvdepleted when I finally got it open that I decided to skip the movie and just take a nap.

Etymology: dvd + deplete (to sap energy)

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Hmvanguish

Created by: scrabbelicious

Pronunciation: Hay/ch/EM/Van/gue/ish

Sentence: Promoting his newly rigged h-operating system, which he hoped to set sail at a press conference at HMV head quarters, Bob said, "I can't get the package out of the damn pack cage, I can't take this HMVanguish anymore."

Etymology: HMVanguish n. A 3-track splicing of 1. HMV, a moribund multi-national multi-media multiple. 2. HMS-Vanquish, a fictional warship of the British Navy 3. Anguish, mental suffering.

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Plastomasochiselize

Created by: readerwriter

Pronunciation: plas-toe-mas-o-chi-zel-ize

Sentence: Perhaps it was because she had found out there was no Santa Claus at the tender age of 14, but Gorzillia just loved opening presents she bought for herself. Being a lover of all things hi-tech and entertaining, a lot of the gifts to herself were secured in plastic which required patience as well as a chisel to open. She loved the process, even when it caused her to shed blood. What she didn't know, of course, was that the pleasure she derived from this adventure was called plastomasochiselization.

Etymology: From plastic, a synthetically produced molded material + masochism, a psychological disorder which produces pleasure from physical pain + chisel, a metal tool used to cut or shape

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Lacewrapper

artr

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)

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Shrinkatoma

Created by: petersn1

Pronunciation: shrink-a-toma

Sentence:

Etymology:

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Emestearrorize

ohwtepph

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]

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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

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Verbotomy Verbotomy - 2007-05-15: 02:19:00
Today's definition was suggested by two writers: mana1066 and autophile. Thank you mana1066 and autophile! ~ James

Verbotomy Verbotomy - 2009-11-30: 00:11:00
Today's definition was suggested by mana1066. Thank you mana1066. ~ James