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DEFINITION: v. To feel stressed and anxious and when your mobile phone runs out of battery power, drops its network connection, or in the worst case, gets misplaced and lost. n. A panic attack caused by an interruption in your mobile phone service.
Verboticisms
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Hysterimissedcall
Created by: Jabberwocky
Pronunciation: hiss/ter/i/mist/call
Sentence: Sally became hysterimissedcall when her cell phone broke down just as she was about to accept a once in a lifetime job offer.
Etymology: hysteria + missed call + hysterical
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COMMENTS:
Good one...nightmare scenario. Don't you think they should call it histeria when it's a guy and hersteria when it happens to a girl??? - Nosila, 2009-05-22: 12:00:00
clever! - libertybelle, 2009-05-22: 14:24:00
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Cellphobia
Created by: Mustang
Pronunciation: sell-FO-bya
Sentence: Celine would suffer bouts of debilitating cellphobia whenever her cell phone service suffered even a momentary outage and as often as not she'd shriek or make other kinds of noises that gave those around her great concern.
Etymology: Blend of 'cell' (short name for cell phone) and 'phobia' (irrational fear)
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COMMENTS:
She needs to get weaned off cells gradually with some cell-you-light! Good Word. - Nosila, 2009-05-22: 11:54:00
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Potty
Created by: jockeymo
Pronunciation:
Sentence:
Etymology:
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COMMENTS:
? - stache, 2008-04-03: 01:36:00
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Cellulardysfunction
Created by: toadstool57
Pronunciation: sel-U-lar-dis-func-tion
Sentence: Jill's bars suddenly dropped to zero as they approached the tunnel. Jill started to shake and sweat. She suffers from cellulardysfunction and the thought of "no phone service" makes her blood pressure soar.
Etymology: cellular/dysfunction
Imservusphobia
Created by: moontopia
Pronunciation: im-ser-vus-fo-bee-a
Sentence: The crazy and wishing to be youthful woman was stricken with imservusphobia, when her cell phone made the undesirable beep when she was texting her 92-year old mom.
Etymology: im-not servus-sevice phobia-fear
Blackberiberi
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: blahk behree behree
Sentence: It was the worst case of blackberiberi ever seen, causing severe iphobia and naukea
Etymology: blackberry beriberi
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COMMENTS:
phonetically perfect! - Nosila, 2011-10-26: 07:20:00
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Calledsweat
Created by: petaj
Pronunciation: cawld-swet
Sentence: Madeleine broke out in a calledsweat every time her phone dropped out during a phone call. It started with a ringing in her ears, followed by strange mutterings about how could anyone be dialling when they are pressing buttons and there is no dial in sight. But the most dramatic effect of her calledsweat was the profuse secretion of perspiration from her ears.
Etymology: call + cold sweat
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COMMENTS:
great petaj - Jabberwocky, 2008-04-04: 15:48:00
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Roamophobe
Created by: Banky
Pronunciation: Rohm-ah-fobe
Sentence: Bruce, with his pink Razr phone and its several Hello Kitty charms attached, would openly weep in roamophobic terror when the bus would enter the Lincoln Tunnel. How was he supposed to watch reruns of Project Runway with no bars?
Etymology: roam - use of a cell phone outside of one's calling area, phobe - person who has a particular phobia
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COMMENTS:
very funny sentence - Jabberwocky, 2008-04-03: 10:58:00
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Flipanic
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: flipanik
Sentence: Marcia is known to flipanic whenever she loses the signal for her cell. Her friends know the signs. First there is the look of dread on her face, followed by the quivering lip and finally the wailing and gnashing of teeth. Before she starts pulling out her hair they just need to nudge or move her to a spot where she can get bars.
Etymology: flip phone (The flip phone or clamshell is an electronics form factor which is in two or more sections that fold via a hinge) + panic (sudden uncontrollable fear or anxiety)
Comments:
stache - 2008-04-03: 01:35:00
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stache - 2008-04-03: 01:37:00
to whom is credit for the definition owed, james?
Ah... Actually I made it up! Cheers ~ James
stache - 2008-04-03: 18:47:00
way to go.
holy smokes, half the universe gave a verboticism