Verboticism: Repulate
DEFINITION: v. To copy and share an idea, thing, or person because you think that it's so wonderful that everyone should have one. n. An open source clone.
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Copycatalyst
Created by: porsche
Pronunciation: caw/pee/cat/a/list
Sentence: Steve was a confirmed copycatalyst, constantly hogging the scanner
Etymology: copy cat + catalyst
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COMMENTS:
copycataclysmic word - petaj, 2007-05-08: 05:21:00
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Cloncausawe
Created by: grahaff
Pronunciation: klone cuz awe
Sentence:
Etymology: clon (clone) caus (because) awe (awesome)
Chainlitter
Created by: theCountess
Pronunciation:
Sentence: Edna was known for chainlittering, with her indiscriminate bulk forwarding of all trivial emails.
Etymology:
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COMMENTS:
nice - galwaywegian, 2009-11-23: 17:55:00
good one - Nosila, 2009-11-24: 01:13:00
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Loonux
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: loo nuks
Sentence: He used loonux to develop his huge network of loonies.
Etymology: loon linux
Freepimp
Created by: heb319
Pronunciation: free pimp
Sentence: Josh freepimped his car, his girlfriend, and the videogame he created, so he ended up bankrupt and living on skid row.
Etymology: free-at no monetary cost; pimp-charging a fee for use. Thus giving away which usually needs to be bought.
Plagiariffic
Created by: Stevenson0
Pronunciation: plag/are/if/ick
Sentence: Joe is plagiarific. As a salesman, he uses all of the latest and greatest ideas he "borrowed" from the business books on the 'Best Sellers List' and shares them with his clients to impress them.
Etymology: PLAGIARIFFIC - noun - from PLAGIARIZE (to take and use ideas, or passages from another's work)+ TERRIFIC (extremely good; wonderful)
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COMMENTS:
Welcome back, Stevenson0! - Nosila, 2009-11-24: 01:14:00
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Cheerox
Created by: mplsbohemian
Pronunciation: CHEER-ahks
Sentence: Alex vigorously cheeroxed his invention of the self-buttering waffle, but it never caught on.
Etymology: cheer + Xerox
Herox
Created by: libertybelle
Pronunciation: he-rocks
Sentence: Jason gave everyone herox duplicates of his trademark Cuban shirt for Christmas because he believed in the classic style. Grandma wasn't so sure...
Etymology: he + rocks = play on word Xerox - a genericized trademark
Linyucks
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: lie nnn yuks
Sentence: The twins were a pair of complete linyucks sharing programmes like mosquitos share germs
Etymology: linux, nyucks
Porkbomb
Created by: 0xdeadbeef
Pronunciation:
Sentence: Market-terrorists porkbombed the student protest with free samples of smart drinks and soy snacks, infecting the naive who didn't read the retrovirally-enforced brand loyalty EULAs.
Etymology: from forkbomb - the catastrophic cloning of software processes, and the supposed main ingredient of Spam
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COMMENTS:
Oh noes! It won't let me submit another one! I thought of another one that skirts the definition a little. This one is limited to the sweet old ladies in your life as they discover the internet: gramspam - Deleting "Footprints", "sick kid wants cards", and "scary urban legend" for the n-millionth time, Oswald grimaces at "Otters holding hands", dreading the coming deluge of YouTube inspired gramspam. - 0xdeadbeef, 2007-05-08: 02:43:00
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