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DEFINITION: n. A state of hyper-attentive focus combined with WBT (Whole Body Twitching) and IEE (Ignores Everything Else), which commonly afflicts video game players. v. To get so caught up in a video game that you cannot stop.

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Technerdalertology

Created by: Nosila

Pronunciation: tek nerd alert all ogee

Sentence: Sheldon was in the middle of an international on line video challenge and was determined to win. Only problem was that his Mom knew about his technerdalertology. That mattered not to her...what mattered in her world was that he had been in the same dirty underpants and clothes for over a week and had only eaten ten pizzas and 12 cokes to sustain him in that time. It was just about time to pull the plug on little Mr. Whinestein...after all, he was only 7 years old!

Etymology: Tech (Technical, characterizing or showing skill in or specialized knowledge of applied arts and sciences) & Nerd Alert (Term used to call attention to a social or societal outcast)& -Ology ( an informal word (abstracted from words with this ending) for some unidentified branch of knowledge)

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Simpnosis

Created by: ekath

Pronunciation: simp-no-sis

Sentence: Often when people are in a state of simpnonsis, they can respond to attempted interactions with grunts or autmatic answers but don't actually process what is being said to them.

Etymology: from hypnosis + the sims

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Induhzone

Created by: galwaywegian

Pronunciation: in duh zone

Sentence: she started to put her clothes back on knowing there wasn't much hope of anything happening when he was induhzone

Etymology: in the zone, Duh.

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Xtasy

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Created by: artr

Pronunciation: ek-stuh-see

Sentence: When Wendel kinects to his game console he is in xtasy. The only his mother can bring him out of it is to wave a large bag of Cheese Doodles in front of him.

Etymology: Xbox (Microsoft game console) + ecstasy (rapturous delight)

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Overcomplaystation

Mrgoodtimes

Created by: Mrgoodtimes

Pronunciation: Oh-ver-kom-pley-stey-shuhn

Sentence: Some called Timmy a geek while others would call the countless hours he spent on his gaming consule a waste of time, but no one could look away when his overcomplaystation was on full display.

Etymology: Overcompensation - playstation Would have also accepted: Wiidiculous or Xboxorcism

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Spaztwiitch

Created by: catgrin

Pronunciation: spaz-tweech

Sentence: After 18 hours playing WoW Jimmy'd entered a state of spaztwiich. He didn't even hear his girlfriend slam the door on the way out.

Etymology: spaz (spastic) + twitch + wii

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Xboxia

Created by: Sketchy

Pronunciation: X-box-E-Ah

Sentence: After hours of gaming xboxia has finally set in.

Etymology: X-box (Game console), Hypoxia (really bad).

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Joystickness

Created by: Nosila

Pronunciation: joy stik ness

Sentence: Zack played video games endlessly each evening after school, on the school bus, in class and all weekend long, without sleep or proper nuitrition. He was actually suffering from joystickness and his folks had to have an intervention to finally get him into a wiidrawal program.

Etymology: Joystick (a manual control consisting of a vertical handle that can move freely in two directions; used as an input device to computers or to devices controlled by computers and video games) & sickness ( impairment of normal physiological function affecting part or all of an organism; also a compulsion)

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Nintendzone

Created by: Osomatic

Pronunciation: nin + tend + zone

Sentence: I used to get so far into the nintendzone when I was playing Mario Brothers that I'd find myself thinking I *was* Mario.

Etymology: Nintendo Zone!

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Spaztego

Created by: bllsht2

Pronunciation: spaz-tee-go

Sentence: every game he played he went spaztego

Etymology: spaz,ego

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Comments:

Verbotomy Verbotomy - 2007-03-16: 00:01:18
Today's definition was suggested by Lucyof2009.
Thank you Lucyof2009! ~ James

petaj petaj - 2007-03-16: 04:35:00
wii - this is fun.

wordmeister - 2007-03-16: 08:35:00
Yes, it's exboxellent!

Discoveria - 2007-03-16: 14:26:00
Please, exercise some selfconsole!

Osomatic - 2007-03-16: 18:20:00
Nintendon't go there.

Verbotomy Verbotomy - 2009-10-02: 00:31:00
Today's definition was suggested by Lucyof2009. Thank you Lucyof2009. ~ James