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DEFINITION: v. To secretly take a photo of someone with your cellphone. n. A cellphone photo, especially if it was taken surreptitiously.
Verboticisms
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Shytterbuggy
Created by: kateinkorea
Pronunciation: SHY ter BUG gy
Sentence: Some freaky guy is weirding me out because he takes pictures of my hands, my ears, my lunch box, my feet, my everything. As soon as I turn around he starts to shyterbuggy me. He thinks I don't know. Yesterday I saw him sitting in the cafeteria admiring all of his pictures of me when he didn't realize I was standing behind him.
Etymology: SHY: nervous or embarrassed to come near someone SHUTTERBUG: a person who really likes to take photos BUGGY: slang for crazy
Circumspicked
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: sir cum spikt
Sentence: Jolene circumspicked her subjects well. Her cellphone was full of sexy pictures of hot guys running past her, looking at her oddly and hurriedly hiding their faces with their hands. Apparently she was looking for her Prints Charming.
Etymology: circumspect (heedful of potential consequences) & Pic (picture)& picked (chosen, selected)
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COMMENTS:
ROFL! Adore Prints Chrarming. Circumspicked sounds so delightfully naughty! Great creates - silveryaspen, 2009-02-06: 11:12:00
like it - Jabberwocky, 2009-02-06: 11:58:00
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Spiphone
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: sp eye fohn
Sentence: her spiphone was directly linked to a see eye ay printer
Etymology: spy iphone
Hocusfocus
Created by: silveryaspen
Pronunciation: ho cuss foh cuss
Sentence: Len's covert cell phone hocusfocus makes him a real shudderbug.
Etymology: Hocus Pocus, Focus. Hocus Pocus - a trickery. Focus - 1. Camera adjustment to obtain a sharper, clearer photo.
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COMMENTS:
Was difficult to chose between these two verbotomies. - silveryaspen, 2009-02-06: 00:37:00
Very clever...two for the price of one! - Mustang, 2009-02-06: 07:18:00
Wonderful play on words....hocusfocus or focuspocus....both say it all... - mweinmann, 2009-02-06: 08:14:00
very nice - Jabberwocky, 2009-02-06: 11:56:00
Good word...lens itself to many ideas. He may end up being framed if he has any more exposure! - Nosila, 2009-02-06: 22:27:00
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Cryptpic
Created by: Stevenson0
Pronunciation: crypt/pic 
Sentence: Cryptpics are showing up all over MySpace and Facebook with the incredible improvement of cell phone cameras and the surreptitious manner in people are taking them.
Etymology: CRYPTPIC - noun from CRYPTIC (secret) + PIC (picture)
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COMMENTS:
like it... - mweinmann, 2009-02-06: 08:16:00
excellent - Jabberwocky, 2009-02-06: 11:55:00
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Kleptograph
Created by: splendiction
Pronunciation: KLEP to graf
Sentence: Kleptographing with a cell phone camera is very difficult, with the delay after pressing the shutter, the person will move and you'll end up with a fuzzy image of the wrong body part. To get a good frame of the body part you want, use an expensive digital camera, preferrably one with an image stabilizer. Practise! practise! will allow for stealth in sneaking your kleptographs.
Etymology: kleptograph n. or v. is from the words kleptomania (urge to take) and photograph.
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COMMENTS:
Wonderful etymoplogy and verbotomy - silveryaspen, 2009-02-06: 22:21:00
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Incogphoto
Created by: jajsr
Pronunciation: In-cahg-foe-toe
Sentence: Any time Jane would see something she thought was odd, she would whip out her cell phone and snap an incogphoto.
Etymology: Combination of "Incog" from incognito - with one's identity sealed; and "photo".
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COMMENTS:
Excellent - TJayzz, 2009-02-06: 14:15:00
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Spiphone
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: sp eye fowhn
Sentence: Thanks to his spiphone, Veronica's secret no longer was.
Etymology: spy iphone
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COMMENTS:
ROFL! Supremely funny sentence wtih a superb verbote. - silveryaspen, 2009-02-06: 11:04:00
terrific - Jabberwocky, 2009-02-06: 11:57:00
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Cellsnapped
Created by: abrakadeborah
Pronunciation: sell-snapp-d
Sentence: Deedra Directionless, cellsnapped her ears and face and sometimes body parts when she used her new iPhone. Her boyfriend, Sam Snickering was cellsnapping her while she slept, filling up her phone with all kinds of unusual images.
Etymology: Cell-short for cellular phone-(Electronics & Computer Science / Telecommunications) a portable telephone operated by cellular radio In full cellular telephone. Snapped-To take (a photograph).
Comments:
Today's definition was suggested by silveryaspen. Thank you silveryaspen. ~ James
Today's definition was suggested by silveryaspen. Thank you silveryaspen. ~ James