Verboticism: Celelone
DEFINITION: v., To call your cellphone when you have misplaced it, hoping that it will ring so that you can locate it. n., The sound of a lost cellphone.
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Marcalporing
Created by: scola
Pronunciation: mar-CALL-poh-ring
Sentence: Having left his phone in a pants pocket, the muffled marcalporing sounded from the bottom of Steve's laundry pile.
Etymology: "call" and "ring" meet "Marco Polo", the classic call and response kids game.
Cellicit
Created by: Stevenson0
Pronunciation: cell/lis/it
Sentence: When Joe misplaces his phone, he cellicits it by relying on the cellhearular method of calling his own number and listening carefully for his personal and unique ring tone.
Etymology: CELLICIT - verb - from - CELL PHONE + ELICIT (to bring, draw out, or call forth)
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COMMENTS:
great word - Jabberwocky, 2008-10-08: 10:10:00
Cellicit is also when telemarketers for phone companies call you at home, during dinner, every night! - Nosila, 2008-10-08: 20:33:00
Excellent - Mustang, 2008-10-09: 05:17:00
Terrific - OZZIEBOB, 2008-10-09: 17:03:00
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Cellfing
Created by: hendrixius
Pronunciation: "selfing"
Sentence: I've been cellfing my phone for hours, to no avail...I must have left it at the pub.
Etymology:
Beacontone
Created by: Koekbroer
Pronunciation: bee-kon-tone
Sentence: Doug had specially programmed his cellphone to ring with a custom high-pitched tone when dialed from his landline. He called it a "beacontone" and was quite proud of it. The problem was that it was so high-pitched he couldn't hear it. He kept forgetting to reprogram it so whenever he lost the phone he would have to call the kid from next door to listen for it.
Etymology: beacon, tone
Callphone
Created by: irving
Pronunciation:
Sentence: i'm try to find my callphone does anybody find it
Etymology: callphone is when you looking for something but you never find it
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COMMENTS:
cool - irving, 2014-04-30: 14:37:00
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Cellulocating
Created by: dubld
Pronunciation: sel-yu-LOH-keyt
Sentence: "Hey Mike!" "Shutup, I'm cellulocating and it's on vibrate."
Etymology: Cellular + Locating
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COMMENTS:
I think I should have said Self-cellulocating. Because regular cellulocating would happen when you get someone else to call your phone for you. - dubld, 2007-11-09: 09:32:00
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Amneing
Created by: scaredboy617
Pronunciation:
Sentence: It's hard amneing where I put my phone.
Etymology: The act of remembering.
Cellapper
Created by: kabloozie
Pronunciation: sel-LAP-per
Sentence: Whenever my cell phone is misplaced, I cellapper it, and voila! there it is, aglow in the black hole of my purse, or singing within the sofa cushions.
Etymology: cell: short for cell phone. The Clapper: a sound activated invention that switches on and off lamps.
Cellectivehearing
Created by: Jabberwocky
Pronunciation: sell/ek/tiv/hearing
Sentence: Fortunately for Bill, who was forever misplacing his cell phone, his cellectivehearing was so finely tuned that he could pick out his ring tone in a hay stack.
Etymology: selective hearing + cell
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COMMENTS:
nice one JW - galwaywegian, 2008-10-08: 14:55:00
Good one! - TJayzz, 2008-10-08: 14:59:00
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Masturtweet
Created by: trademagrag
Pronunciation: mass-ter-tweet
Sentence: I found my phone, but it was a bit embarrassing when my roommate caught me masturtweeting.
Etymology: masturbate + tweet
