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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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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
Xboxitis
Created by: Mustang
Pronunciation: ex-box-I-tis
Sentence: After a lengthy session playing games Delbert suddenly began to experience severe Xboxitis that included tremors, loss of motor skills and eventually resulted in his entering a catatonic state.
Etymology: Combination of Xbox with suffix 'itis - with nouns - denoting abnormal states or conditions, excesses, tendencies, obsessions, etc. ( telephonitis; baseballitis ).
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)
Nintendzone
Created by: Osomatic
Pronunciation: nin + tend + zone
Sentence: I used to get so far into the nintendzone when I was playing Mario Brothers that I'd find myself thinking I *was* Mario.
Etymology: Nintendo Zone!
Spaztego
Created by: bllsht2
Pronunciation: spaz-tee-go
Sentence: every game he played he went spaztego
Etymology: spaz,ego
Xboxia
Created by: Sketchy
Pronunciation: X-box-E-Ah
Sentence: After hours of gaming xboxia has finally set in.
Etymology: X-box (Game console), Hypoxia (really bad).
Levelupsy
Created by: Discoveria
Pronunciation: Lev-ell-up-see
Sentence: Patient S is the first documented case of fatal levelupsy. S had a history of chronic gaming; patient was discovered convulsing upon couch, ignoring symptoms of asphyxia while playing a common console game.
Etymology: Level up + epilepsy. Epilepsy: a chronic nervous system disorder causing seizures.
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COMMENTS:
Hope that fatalepsy count doesn't get too high. - petaj, 2007-03-16: 04:33:00
well done! - galwaywegian, 2007-03-16: 04:59:00
mwaa, levelupsy, or its curtainsy, mugsy. mwaa...(ok, after that bad impression, you definitely got my vote :) - Alchemist, 2007-03-16: 14:12:00
great word! - rikboyee, 2007-03-16: 17:14:00
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Virtitude
Created by: Koekbroer
Pronunciation: ver-ti-tyood
Sentence: Doug is on the last level of Moon Patrol. He is in serious vertitude, bro.
Etymology: Virtual, attitude
Squicy
Created by: Squicy31
Pronunciation: Squi-cee
Sentence: The jellyfish is so squicy.
Etymology: It means Squishy in a funnier way.
Twiiking
Created by: revolver23
Pronunciation: tweaking
Sentence: He was up all night, wasn't eating, wasn't bathing. Just playing video tennis. Dude was twiiking.
Etymology: Amphetamine addiction leads to twitchiness, paranoia, and obsession. Addicts are called tweakers.
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