Verboticism: Digintrance

'Yeah, I do have a lot of online friends.'

DEFINITION: v. To be so immersed in a virtual world that you forget about your responsibilities to the physical world -- like your job, your family, or even feeding and washing yourself. n. A person who lives exclusively in their imagination.

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Digintrance

Created by: whatley

Pronunciation: Di-jin-trance

Sentence: JP sat digintranced by the game, his eyes glazed over and dully staring at a monitor surrounded by cigarette butts, Mountain Dew cans, and filth.

Etymology: From Eng. Entranced by the Digital. 1993. Growing availability of digital cable and high grade cannabis in the early 1990s entranced America with hundreds of new channels of mindless programming.

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