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DEFINITION: n. A state of hyper-attentive focus combined with WBT (Whole Body Twitching) and IEE (Ignores Everything Else), which commonly afflicts video game players. v. To get so caught up in a video game that you cannot stop.

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Induhzone

Created by: galwaywegian

Pronunciation: in duh zone

Sentence: she started to put her clothes back on knowing there wasn't much hope of anything happening when he was induhzone

Etymology: in the zone, Duh.

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Joystickness

Created by: Nosila

Pronunciation: joy stik ness

Sentence: Zack played video games endlessly each evening after school, on the school bus, in class and all weekend long, without sleep or proper nuitrition. He was actually suffering from joystickness and his folks had to have an intervention to finally get him into a wiidrawal program.

Etymology: Joystick (a manual control consisting of a vertical handle that can move freely in two directions; used as an input device to computers or to devices controlled by computers and video games) & sickness ( impairment of normal physiological function affecting part or all of an organism; also a compulsion)

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Consolepsy

Created by: urbanwookie

Pronunciation: kon-soh-lehp-say

Sentence: Janet could only hope that Michael would outgrow his juvenile consolepsy...even if, at 36, it seemed unlikely.

Etymology: console + epilepsy/narcolepsy

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Spaztego

Created by: bllsht2

Pronunciation: spaz-tee-go

Sentence: every game he played he went spaztego

Etymology: spaz,ego

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Zombwii

libertybelle

Created by: libertybelle

Pronunciation: zahmb-weee

Sentence: It takes mere minutee for Dale to become a Zombwii when he starts playing Call of Dookie. I tried to pry the controller from his hands and he started wailing, "Gaaaames!! I need gaaames!"

Etymology: Zombie + wii

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Nintendaze

swallowedbyafish

Created by: swallowedbyafish

Pronunciation:

Sentence: He had been trapped in an intense nintendaze for hours.

Etymology: nintendo + daze

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COMMENTS:

Nice! I guess the problem was never nintended to surface... - Discoveria, 2007-03-16: 04:15:00

ninterrific - galwaywegian, 2007-03-16: 04:58:00

He had always had latent nintendencies... - Alchemist, 2007-03-16: 11:23:00

swallowedbyafish ninthank you - swallowedbyafish, 2007-03-16: 11:49:00

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Gamertrance

Created by: jedijawa

Pronunciation: gay-mer-trance

Sentence: Corey was out of it, he had been playing the game for a long time and now he was in a gamertrace and unable to focus on anything else.

Etymology: gamer (one who plays games) + trance (a state of reduced aweness sometimes marked by intense focus)

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COMMENTS:

I wanted to suggest something like this, but I was way to slow ;) - allwise, 2007-03-16: 04:43:00

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Pwiioccupied

artr

Created by: artr

Pronunciation: pwēˈäkyəˌpī

Sentence: Wendell is pwiioccupied with gaming. He Eats, breathes and sleeps a video game life. He thinks his Wii Fit app has improved his wiiflexes, his wiiaction time. His friends think it has made him a social wiitard. Those friends are planning an intervention to get him into wiihab. It*s all wiidiculous.

Etymology: preoccupied (dominate or engross the mind of someone to the exclusion of other thoughts) + Wii (home video game console released by Nintendo)

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COMMENTS:

poifect - galwaywegian, 2009-10-02: 10:06:00

wiitty woid, you wiiascally wabbit! - Nosila, 2009-10-02: 11:01:00

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Videowiiality

Created by: mweinmann

Pronunciation: vid - eee - ooo - wee - al - et - ee

Sentence: No one could get Jonah's attention for the past two days. He was clearly in videowiiality and we were all worried. We thought he was becoming dehydrated and it looked like his game system had become his new hallucinogenic.

Etymology: video, wii, reality

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COMMENTS:

artr Don\'t tell me Jonah forgot his energy drink! - artr, 2009-10-02: 12:22:00

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Vigamania

Created by: Ahmad

Pronunciation: vega-maenia

Sentence: vigamania is an alarming threat to most of our young generation for they love to stuck with play station 24 hours.

Etymology: vi = video, ga= games, and mania means when some one is obsessed with something to an extent that he never thinks or talks about something else.

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Comments:

Verbotomy Verbotomy - 2007-03-16: 00:01:18
Today's definition was suggested by Lucyof2009.
Thank you Lucyof2009! ~ James

petaj petaj - 2007-03-16: 04:35:00
wii - this is fun.

wordmeister - 2007-03-16: 08:35:00
Yes, it's exboxellent!

Discoveria - 2007-03-16: 14:26:00
Please, exercise some selfconsole!

Osomatic - 2007-03-16: 18:20:00
Nintendon't go there.

Verbotomy Verbotomy - 2009-10-02: 00:31:00
Today's definition was suggested by Lucyof2009. Thank you Lucyof2009. ~ James