DEFINITION: n., The wondrous, and the "wonder how I'm going to pay for it" feelings of the holiday shopping season. v., To stumble through a shopping mall like a zombie on a buying binge, grabbing anything and everything that will fit on your credit card.

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Generiousity: /jen err eye owe you sitee/ by about 3.00pm on the 20th of december, his generousity became generiousity Etymology: generousity. IOU Created by: galwaywegian.

Presentension: /pres ent ten shun/ You know the feeling of presentension in the store, when you cross your fingers at the till in the hopes that your purchase of gifts won't be declined by your credit card company. It is followed by the relief of the sale actually going through. (Hopefully) Etymology: presents & tension Created by: Nosila.

Storpor: /store-per/ A state of deep storpor had been induced among the shoppers. They were defeated. The cheery elves and the bawling infants, the fluorescent lights and grotesque displays, the relentless rasping tannoy urging them to 'buy before it's gone', had triumphed. The shoppers dully storpored out their pin codes, vainly attempting to salvage some vestige of self-purpose. Etymology: store + torpor (a state of motor and mental inactivity with a partial suspension of sensibility) Created by: Carla.

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