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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.
Verboticisms
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Cyberspasm
Created by: jonobo
Pronunciation: cyberspasm
Sentence: Waves of heavy cyberspasm rolled through his body and mind - no one could help him anymore - he was totally gonline and soon to be uploadead.
Etymology: cyber + spasm
Nintendaze
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
ninthank you - swallowedbyafish, 2007-03-16: 11:49:00
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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
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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Namm
Created by: screech
Pronunciation:
Sentence: He's been stuck in a state of Namm retardedness all day.
Etymology:
Gamertose
Created by: rikboyee
Pronunciation: gay-merr-tose
Sentence: there was no point trying to contact Allan between 5 and 11 in the evening as he was always gamertose
Etymology: gamer, comatose
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COMMENTS:
Nice! - allwise, 2007-03-16: 04:43:00
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Nesmerization
Created by: Boyo461
Pronunciation:
Sentence: Jack was in a state of NESMERIZATION due to a particularly challenging game of Super Mario Bros.
Etymology: NES (Nintendo Entertainment System) + Mesmerization
Xtasy
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)
Electrifried
Created by: buck180
Pronunciation: e lek tra fryd
Sentence: Playing the game Johnny was so electrifried that he couldn't look away or drop the control.
Etymology: Electric - power source for any Wii, PS, or other vid-game. Added to ... Fried - as in burnt out, toasted, numb.
Comments:
Today's definition was suggested by Lucyof2009.
Thank you Lucyof2009! ~ James
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.
Today's definition was suggested by Lucyof2009. Thank you Lucyof2009. ~ James