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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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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)
Plastislash
Created by: Mustang
Pronunciation: PLAS-teh-slash
Sentence: Just about every time Lucille tried to open any of the newfangled packages sealed in the hard plastic she'd end up with a bloody plastislash, either cutting herself with the knife or lacerating one of her digits on the sharp edges of the plastic itself.
Etymology: Blend of the words 'plastic' and 'slash'.
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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Boobywrap
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: boōbērap
Sentence: Jerry bought a new video game. It turned out to be a boobywrap. He cut up his fingers so badly getting the package open that he had to wait a week to try out the game.
Etymology: booby-trap (a thing designed to catch the unwary) + wrap (cover or enclose)
Cellopain
Created by: ErWenn
Pronunciation: /ˈsɛləˌpeɪn/
Sentence: It almost seems that as technology gets more advanced and everything else becomes better designed, packaging produces more cellopain, not less.
Etymology: from cellophane + pain
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COMMENTS:
very good!! - Jabberwocky, 2007-05-15: 12:29:00
I was just about to submit that one ... glad I saw that you'd already done so! Nicely done! - mjmlabs, 2007-05-15: 23:50:00
I've already used up my votes. But if i had one to spare... - petaj, 2007-05-16: 01:55:00
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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
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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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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Comments:
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 - 2009-11-30: 00:11:00
Today's definition was suggested by mana1066. Thank you mana1066. ~ James