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DEFINITION: v. To arrange with a friend to phone you with a "crisis" during a blind date, in case you need to make an emergency exit; n. A fake "emergency" phone call that is used to end a blind date.
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Pseudodatend
Created by: verbotobard
Pronunciation: pseudo date end
Sentence: Charlotte asked her friend for a pseudodatend, just in case she needed a quick finish to her blind date gone wrong.
Etymology: pseudo + date + end
Araccknophonya
Created by: Mustang
Pronunciation: Arr - accck! - na - fon - ya
Sentence: When her blind date, Delbert, showed up looking like some kind of insect, Phoebe had a major case of araccknaphonya and hovered near the phone awaiting a phonus interruptus call from her friend, Alberta offering an escape 'clause'
Etymology: Blend of arachnophobia, Acck! and phone.
Catrastrophoney
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: kuh-tas-truh-foh-nee
Sentence: Joan was not at all sure about going out on a date with a guy she met through an online dating service. Even though one of her girlfriends swore by it, Bubba's Buds didn't feel quite right to her so she arranged for June to give her a catastrophoney call just to be safe.
Etymology: catastrophe (a sudden and widespread disaster) + phone (telephone) + phoney (not genuine; fake )
Dialiverance
Created by: Rutilus
Pronunciation: dial-iver-anse
Sentence: "This guy was a creep" thought Gemma. Then the mobile went off. "Hi Lisa...Oh my god, you're joking...look I'll be right over!" "I'm really sorry but I've got to dash, I'll ring you, bye!" Thank God for Lisa, she'd kept to the plan and given Gemma dialiverance from this awful blind date.
Etymology: dial - to make phone call; deliverance - rescue from danger
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COMMENTS:
exellent word - Jabberwocky, 2008-05-28: 10:51:00
Hits it on the head. - OZZIEBOB, 2008-05-28: 21:36:00
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Ringormorsos
Created by: Jabberwocky
Pronunciation: ring/or/mors/us
Sentence: Since Julie wasn't sure if she could let her phone ring or simply vibrate during the date she pleaded with her friend to ringormorsos her so she could make her escape if necessary.
Etymology: ring + morse (as in morse code) + SOS + take on rigor mortis
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COMMENTS:
Good etymology - OZZIEBOB, 2008-05-28: 21:38:00
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Callrescyou
Created by: splendiction
Pronunciation: call res cue
Sentence: Deana and her close friend Diana arranged for Diana’s callrescyou if her blind date was a disasster. Diana’s signal that the date required intervention was simply to say ‘HELLo’ instead of ‘hi’.
Etymology: From CALL and RESCUE and YOU.
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COMMENTS:
Your callrescyou is important to us... - Nosila, 2009-07-09: 11:08:00
thanks for your immediate response, but please hold the line... - splendiction, 2009-07-09: 11:10:00
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Phonexit
Created by: Redrover
Pronunciation: fone-exit
Sentence: Darlene had made specific arrangements with her friend Marsha to call 20 minutes into her blind date with Richard. She had met him online but when he pressed her for a live meeting she just had a nagging suspicion that he wouldn't be everything he professed to be. So she told Marsha that she needed a phonexit opportunity in case her intuition had been correct - and boy was it ever! She could smell him before he even approached the table and she wished she had arranged for the call the moment he arrived.
Etymology: phone + exit
Liephone
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: līfōn
Sentence: Jill and Heather have a standing agreement. If either is out on a blind date the other is to liephone to report an emergency as an out from a bad evening. It’s amazing how many times Jill’s grandmother has been rushed to the hospital this year.
Etymology: lie (an intentionally false statement) + phone (short for telephone)
Fallbackcallback
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: fôlbakkôlbak
Sentence: When Cindy's blind date turned out to be a screaming bore, she resorted to a fallbackcallback, secretly texting her roommate, Gloria who called her to report an "emergency". Gloria may need some practice at this. The best crisis she could muster was a lost sock.
Etymology: fallback (an alternative plan that may be used in an emergency) + callback (a telephone call made to return a call received)
Comments:
Today's definition was suggested by doseydotes. Thank you doseydotes. ~ James
Today's definition was suggested by doseydotes. Thank you doseydotes. ~ James