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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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Videosyncrasies

artr

Created by: artr

Pronunciation: vidēəsingkrəsēz

Sentence: Most people have a particular way of playing their video games. For most it is subtle, maybe a tilt of the head or grunt that accompanies a certain action. For Andrew, it’s much more than that. His collection of videocyncrasies makes it almost impossible for anybody to play with him in person. The local video cafe once called 911 thinking he was having a seisure.

Etymology: video [game] (a game played by electronically manipulating images produced by a computer program on a television screen or other display screen) + idiosyncrasy (a mode of behavior or way of thought peculiar to an individual)

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love it - galwaywegian, 2011-02-21: 04:45:00

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Xtasy

artr

Created by: artr

Pronunciation: ek-stuh-see

Sentence: When Wendel kinects to his game console he is in xtasy. The only his mother can bring him out of it is to wave a large bag of Cheese Doodles in front of him.

Etymology: Xbox (Microsoft game console) + ecstasy (rapturous delight)

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Namm

screech

Created by: screech

Pronunciation:

Sentence: He's been stuck in a state of Namm retardedness all day.

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Mariopia

Created by: Nuwanda

Pronunciation: marr-ee-oo-pee-a

Sentence: Clyde suffered from Mariopia and it ruined his life. It started out with a simple Gameboy--black and white screen, bad graphics. Yet he was compelled to conquer it, and was willing to let his life fall into shambles around him. Today, Clyde is so destitute that he has taken to hanging around Best Buy looking for some kid who he can convince to "test drive" Mario Kart on the store's demo Wiis. The scene usually ends with the kid crying, Clyde taunting and security escorting him off the premises.

Etymology: Mario, the ubiquitous gaming brothers, combined with suffix "opia" which means affecting vision.

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A Mario made in Heaven...good word - Nosila, 2009-10-02: 23:32:00

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Overcomplaystation

Mrgoodtimes

Created by: Mrgoodtimes

Pronunciation: Oh-ver-kom-pley-stey-shuhn

Sentence: Some called Timmy a geek while others would call the countless hours he spent on his gaming consule a waste of time, but no one could look away when his overcomplaystation was on full display.

Etymology: Overcompensation - playstation Would have also accepted: Wiidiculous or Xboxorcism

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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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Clickeratic

Created by: Mobelia

Pronunciation: click-err-a-tick

Sentence: His intense focus on the video game he played removed any self-consciousness over the clickeratic dance he performed.

Etymology: from Click as in pressing buttons as on the controls for a video game from Erratic as in unpredictable idiosyncracies

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Loosearms

Created by: kiritkiran

Pronunciation:

Sentence: The twerp Arjun Sen is such a loosearms.

Etymology: A man whose thinness of character is reflected in his hanging muscle-bone structure he calls arms. A flashy individual who is as loose as the shirt hanging out of his belly, whether he is thin or fat.

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Technerdalertology

Created by: Nosila

Pronunciation: tek nerd alert all ogee

Sentence: Sheldon was in the middle of an international on line video challenge and was determined to win. Only problem was that his Mom knew about his technerdalertology. That mattered not to her...what mattered in her world was that he had been in the same dirty underpants and clothes for over a week and had only eaten ten pizzas and 12 cokes to sustain him in that time. It was just about time to pull the plug on little Mr. Whinestein...after all, he was only 7 years old!

Etymology: Tech (Technical, characterizing or showing skill in or specialized knowledge of applied arts and sciences) & Nerd Alert (Term used to call attention to a social or societal outcast)& -Ology ( an informal word (abstracted from words with this ending) for some unidentified branch of knowledge)

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Computerulsive

Created by: galwaywegian

Pronunciation: kum pew terr uhl siv

Sentence: He was so computerulsive that on regular occassions the excitement would make him wii himself

Etymology: compulsive computer

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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