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'If I don't get this stupid song out of my head...'

DEFINITION: A state of reduced mental capacity, caused by an inability to think of anything but an annoying pop song, which seems to be endlessly repeating itself in your mind.

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Tunestruck

Created by: purpleartichokes

Pronunciation: toon-struk

Sentence: Purpleartichokes got tunestruck when the Meatloaf tune "You Took the Words Right Out of My Mouth" literally did just that.

Etymology: moonstruck, tune

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COMMENTS:

Yep, that's the current song that has me dittywitted. - purpleartichokes, 2007-08-17: 06:47:00

Poor you...got my sympathy vote! - remistram, 2007-08-17: 09:22:00

I'm being tunestruck at this moment by that terrible tune by Kylie Minogue," I Can't Get You Out Of My Head". Great word- you get my vote. - OZZIEBOB, 2007-08-17: 19:22:00

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Dittyditzy

Created by: KristinA

Pronunciation: dit-E-ditz-E

Sentence: In a strange twist of events, Marcia became the top salesperson of the month at the Hummer dealership. Each time she would be with a customer and start to say "Hummer," she would break into a rendition of the Black Eyed Peas "My Humps," much to the delight of her mostly male customer base.

Etymology: dittty (song) + ditzy (scatterbrained)

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Incompoptence

Created by: sweetclarity

Pronunciation: In-com-pop-tence.

Sentence: They threatened to fire her for incompoptence when she spent her whole workday humming 'Oops, I Did It Again!' instead of answering the phone.

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Synapping

Created by: petaj

Pronunciation: sin-app-ing

Sentence: Sinead was synapping, her toes tapping and her fingers snapping to the cringeworthy pop tune. But no matter how hard she tried she couldn't snap out of it to work on her tax return.

Etymology: snap (your fingers to the beat) + synapse (connections in your brain) + nap (sleep)

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Npsych

Created by: loofarama

Pronunciation: en-sike

Sentence: I'm to N"psyched to do anything right now.

Etymology: N'sync + psych

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COMMENTS:

Is there supposed to be some apostrophe between the n and the p? because I at first I thought it was pronounced nip-sitch. - mythman, 2007-08-21: 13:53:00

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Repecancion

Created by: akvoD3

Pronunciation: REHP-eh-can-shun

Sentence:

Etymology: repeat + cancion (Spanish)

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Brainfartpop

Created by: remistram

Pronunciation: breyn-fart-pop

Sentence: She laid awake with the "Popcorn" song from her childhood repeating ad nauseum in her head, which was at least moderatley tolerable. Her boyfriend suffered from brainfartpop too, last week he was dealing with Falco's "Der Kommissar".

Etymology: brain fart (moment of dementia) + pop (as in pop music)

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Debassment

Created by: jesster

Pronunciation: de - base - ment

Sentence: As George scored the neurobiology exam, he discovered one of the most severe case of debassment he had ever seen. A student had answered every question only with the phrase "Insane in the membrane."

Etymology: debasement (to reduce in quality or value) + bass (guitar)

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