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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.
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Potty
Created by: jockeymo
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COMMENTS:
? - stache, 2008-04-03: 01:36:00
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Necellrosis
Created by: Stevenson0
Pronunciation: nuh/cell/ros/is
Sentence: Because of Jenny's complete and utter reliance on her phone, she goes into a state of necellrosis when there is any type of service interruption.
Etymology: cell + necrosis (from Greek nekrosis - becoming dead, state of death) + neurosis
Telecomaddict
Created by: CanadianAndyCapp
Pronunciation: Tell-eh-kom-add-ikt
Sentence: Such is the addictive and intrusive nature of the personal telecommunications explosion that it seems one cannot travel on public transit, walk in the street, sit in a park, visit a museum or art gallery without being assaulted by the jarring noise of someones cell phone or crackberry and the absolute insistence of the owner to immediately stop whatever they are doing to answer it. These telecomaddicts even get agitated or offensively angry if it is suggested they turn off these electronic devices and soon begin to exhibit classic symptoms that were previously associated with alchohol and drug withdrawal. Perhaps the story "Caves of Steel" is not so far fetched as it appeared when it was first published. THE LUDDITES WERE RIGHT!!!!!!
Etymology: Telecommunication- The subversive intrusion of electronic brainwashing and individual isolation through the disguise of increased freedom of communication. / Addict- The recipient of telecommunication
Celladdict
Created by: stephboo43
Pronunciation: cell-add-ict
Sentence: she is such a celladdict, she can't go 5 minutes without cell phone service.
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Distelephobia
Created by: lauram22
Pronunciation: dis-tell-eh-fo-b-ia
Sentence: Jenny was overcome with distelephobia when she couldn't find her cell phone
Etymology: dis- lost tele- phone phobia- fear of
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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Tunamobphobia
Created by: valevans
Pronunciation: ton-a-mo-bee-fo-bee-a
Sentence: Sally suffered from tunamobphobia when she was on a train about to go into a tunnel
Etymology: mob-move phobia-fear
Cellyell
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: sel yel
Sentence: Pansy would always have a cellyell when the train went into the tunnel and suspended her connection.
Etymology: Cell (cellular phone) & Yell (shout,cry)
Ipanic
Created by: youmustvotenato
Pronunciation: eye-panic
Sentence: Demetri began to iPanic as the power bled dry from his iPhone in the middle of an Angry Birds battle.
Etymology: i - apple prefix for everything; panic - to panic
Antivocaphobia
Created by: ttime77
Pronunciation: an-tie-voke-a-fobe-e-a
Sentence: the woman that was very excited about the conversation that was being held on her phone. When the train she was on went into a tunnel, her phone lost service thus she was diagnosed with antivocaphobia.
Etymology: anti- not voc- to call phobia- to be afraid of
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COMMENTS:
this word sucks.. - sjacksonnnn4, 2011-10-26: 15:15:00
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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