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DEFINITION: A state of hyper-attentive focus combined with WBT (Whole Body Twitching) and IEE (Ignores Everything Else), which commonly afflicts video game players.
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Fraystation
Created by: Jabberwocky
Pronunciation: fray/stay/shun
Sentence: The squeels and the jumping meant that he had entered the dangerous zone of fraystation
Etymology: fray (frazzle) + station (sphere) + playstation
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COMMENTS:
Has a great ring to it! - Scrumpy, 2007-09-13: 07:14:00
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Notential
Created by: FreeToys
Pronunciation: no - ten' - shul
Sentence: I'm sorry Mrs. Jones, since Bobby has been unable to grasp anything but joystick skills, we're afraid he has notential.
Etymology: no / potential
Gamernaut
Created by: japfilsk8er
Pronunciation: gamer not
Sentence: keeps his momentum going and stay focus to the game
Etymology: game and juggernaut
Autogamenchorea
Created by: MrDave2176
Pronunciation: au-to-gam-en-KOR-ee-ah
Sentence: Mike's autogamenchorea prevented him from hearing the timer on the pot stickers that were cooking on the stove and soon the apartment was filled with smoke.
Etymology: auto-(Greek: self, same, spontaneous; directed from within. Used as in autism). gamen (Old English: root of Game) -chorea (Greek: dance; in medicine, it is used to denote a nervous disorder)
Wiiggle
Created by: Stevenson0
Pronunciation: wee/ig/gle
Sentence: He transforms completely and falls into the state of wiiggle when he plays his video games.
Etymology: wii + wiggle
Hafowhobytyigevel
Created by: staggolee
Pronunciation: HAF-o-woh-bih-TIE-g'v'l
Sentence: OMG--I'M HAFOWHOBYTYGEVEL!!!
Etymology: adj. origin unk.
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COMMENTS:
Unsubstantiated rumors accredit this as a Bushism. - staggolee, 2007-09-13: 00:33:00
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Gadgetation
Created by: Scrumpy
Pronunciation: gaj-it-a-shun
Sentence: After 12 hours of Quake, John's whole body vibrated with advanced gadgetation.
Etymology: gadget + agitation
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COMMENTS:
excellent! - Jabberwocky, 2007-09-13: 11:56:00
I'm not certain why - but I'm locked in. Top word! - OZZIEBOB, 2007-09-13: 20:16:00
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Watasadik
Created by: leomar
Pronunciation: watas-adik
Sentence: a word that shows a "state of hyper-attentive focus = ADIK" with the "IEE (Ignores Everything Else)= WATAS"
Etymology: the watas adik
Twiiking
Created by: torpid
Pronunciation: tweeking
Sentence: After buzzing Billy's apartment five times, the pizza deliveryman returned home, not realizing that Billy was there, but twiiking, and thus unable to hear the doorbell.
Etymology: tweak/tweaking (meth and other drug user's hyperactivity) + wii
Xboccupation
Created by: Pseudonym
Pronunciation: ex-bock-u-pay-shun
Sentence: "Sorry about the accident; I forgot to go during my xboccupation."
Etymology: xbox + occupation
Comments:
OZZIEBOB - 2007-09-13: 20:07:00
Suddenly I'm become pixi-led. Nice word.