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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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Nintendaze

swallowedbyafish

Created by: swallowedbyafish

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Sentence: He had been trapped in an intense nintendaze for hours.

Etymology: nintendo + daze

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COMMENTS:

Nice! I guess the problem was never nintended to surface... - Discoveria, 2007-03-16: 04:15:00

ninterrific - galwaywegian, 2007-03-16: 04:58:00

He had always had latent nintendencies... - Alchemist, 2007-03-16: 11:23:00

swallowedbyafish ninthank you - swallowedbyafish, 2007-03-16: 11:49:00

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Cyberspasm

Created by: jonobo

Pronunciation: cyberspasm

Sentence: Waves of heavy cyberspasm rolled through his body and mind - no one could help him anymore - he was totally gonline and soon to be uploadead.

Etymology: cyber + spasm

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Wiiiriness

Created by: mickey666

Pronunciation: wee ree ness

Sentence: Mind body and soul combined perfectly with the consol as he displayed exceptional wiiiriness

Etymology: wiii - the ultimate game challenge riness - creating the noun

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Wiivulsion

erasmus

Created by: erasmus

Pronunciation: wee vull shun

Sentence: Terry was in a full state of wiivulsion which nobody was going to be able to get him out of for several hours.

Etymology: from the wii and convulsion for the twitching and compulsion for the not being able to seperate from it.

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Simdrone

petaj

Created by: petaj

Pronunciation: sim + drone

Sentence: The original diagnosis was acronymosis, but it became clear from his concentration on the console that he had simdrone brought on by extensive use of Sims for PS2, manifesting in a constant moaning about the characters and game commands accompanied by tics.

Etymology: Syndrome (a set of symptoms) + Sims (simulation video game) + drone (continuous noise)

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Wiiwee

mrskellyscl

Created by: mrskellyscl

Pronunciation: wee-wee

Sentence: Herman earned his nickname, Wiiwee Herman, when he was playing a game with his friends and wouldn't stop for anything -- even nature. He wiggled and writhed and danced in place until he finished his game, much to the delight and amusement of his fellow gamers.

Etymology: wii: a game system + weewee: in babyspeak -- to have to urinate (PeeWee Herman, played by actor Paul Reubens, was a popular comic character in children's television from 1986 to 1991. He enjoyed tremendous success until he was discovered engaging in some compulsive behavior of his own)

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COMMENTS:

Excuse me...have to see a man about a horse! - Nosila, 2009-10-02: 23:40:00

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Xboxitis

Created by: Mustang

Pronunciation: ex-box-I-tis

Sentence: After a lengthy session playing games Delbert suddenly began to experience severe Xboxitis that included tremors, loss of motor skills and eventually resulted in his entering a catatonic state.

Etymology: Combination of Xbox with suffix 'itis - with nouns - denoting abnormal states or conditions, excesses, tendencies, obsessions, etc. ( telephonitis; baseballitis ).

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Videosyncrasies

artr

Created by: artr

Pronunciation: vidēəsingkrəsēz

Sentence: Most people have a particular way of playing their video games. For most it is subtle, maybe a tilt of the head or grunt that accompanies a certain action. For Andrew, it’s much more than that. His collection of videocyncrasies makes it almost impossible for anybody to play with him in person. The local video cafe once called 911 thinking he was having a seisure.

Etymology: video [game] (a game played by electronically manipulating images produced by a computer program on a television screen or other display screen) + idiosyncrasy (a mode of behavior or way of thought peculiar to an individual)

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love it - galwaywegian, 2011-02-21: 04:45:00

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Loservision

Created by: lauramy

Pronunciation: loo-zer-vizh-uhn

Sentence: Who needs a girlfriend when you've got tons of video games combined with serious loservision.

Etymology: loser + vision

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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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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