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DEFINITION: A state of extreme agitation developed after extended periods of non-stop video game participation; commonly affects males of all ages!
Verboticisms
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Severquest
Created by: purpleartichokes
Pronunciation: seh-vur-kwest
Sentence: Nine hours of gaming proved too much for Bob's delicate psyche. It was evident that his current state of videoverdrive had spiralled into a severquest when he insulted his grandmother and began systematically ripping the appendages off of members of a hapless ant colony.
Etymology: sever, Everquest
Nintendetatched
Created by: Kyoti
Pronunciation: nin-tend-uh-TATCHT
Sentence: After spending the money for the water bill on MetroidIV, playing it for 42 hours straight and gaining all the weapons and life status, Ernie was a little nintendetatched when his girlfriend asked him to take out the trash, and he emptied his quasar scatter cannon into the nearest droid to express his displeasure.
Etymology: Nintendo + detatched (unhinged)
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COMMENTS:
very clever! - galwaywegian, 2007-08-21: 05:26:00
This definition has made me idiopakmanic-- I think I'd rather be nintendetatched! Nice word. - OZZIEBOB, 2007-08-21: 23:40:00
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Fervideous
Created by: OZZIEBOB
Pronunciation: fer-VID-e-ous
Sentence: The tell-tale signs were ominious. Bob holing up in his room, ignoring kith and kin, even tucker, a shower and his job,playing video games for hours on end, while everthing plummetted around him. Forced to re-emerge into the real world, this pervideous pacuderm, with a fervideous fanaticism, threatened to become mozillian.
Etymology: Fervideous: of fervid, fer(al), video & ous. Pervideous: of perfidious, video & ous (griefer). Pacuderm: noisy, "thick skinned" chomper.
Xystop
Created by: mplsbohemian
Pronunciation: ehks-wye-STAHP
Sentence: As his girlfriend yanked the power cord of his XBox, Alex lept into a frenzied xystop that effectively ended the date.
Etymology: XY (male chromosome pair)[perhaps also the X and Y buttons on a controller] + why stop?
Wiintensity
Created by: KristinA
Pronunciation: ween-tins-ity
Sentence: Brad was in such a state of wiintensity after his mother took his Playstation away, he would show his anger by running face-first into walls and self-body slamming onto the floor.
Etymology: wii (personal gaming device) + intensity
Inconsoleable
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: inn conn soo lab ell
Sentence: she left him while he was on level seven, taking the car, the kids and the dog. He was inconsoleable. The batteries needed changing in the handset and it was a half hour walk to the store.
Etymology: inconsolable, console
Playstayshun
Created by: Osomatic
Pronunciation: play + stay + shun
Sentence: After playing Doom for 15 hours straight, I found myself playstayshunning my fellow humans - I kept ducking behind corners every time I saw someone.
Etymology: Playstation becomes play, stay, and shun.
Leveluproar
Created by: petaj
Pronunciation: level-up-raw
Sentence: Just then, the gaming lab erupted in pandemonium when all the players simultaneously reached 15000 points. The leveluproar seemed to go on for ages as screens flashed a riot of colour onto the ceiling and strange techno sound effects underpinned the hubbub of 20 students jumping up and down.
Etymology: level up (gain enough points/experience to move up to a new level in a computer game) + uproar
