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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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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)
Cellicitous
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: sel is it us
Sentence: Every time Jeanine's train came near a tunnel on her daily commutes, she was overwhelmed with that cellicitous feeling akin to panic. Her fear was that once she lost connection to whomever she was speaking, she would never regain it. Her doctor finally prescribed her with some phonazepam, as much to assist her with her attacks as to improve the quality of her fellow travellers commutes.
Etymology: Cell (cellular phone) & Solicitous (full of anxiety and concern)
Cellxiety
Created by: Lauren19
Pronunciation: cell-ex-ziedy
Sentence: The woman has major cellxiety and couldn't let anything happen to her phone. She could not part from it.
Etymology: cell- mobile device exiety- to keep at all times.
Anite
Created by: Mclovin
Pronunciation: an.iht.
Sentence: i have anite. :)
Etymology: an-without ite-one connection too.
Appattack
Created by: Mustang
Pronunciation: ap-ah-tak
Sentence: When her Iphone failed for reasons beyond her ability to discern, Muriel had a major appattack from losing her connection to Facebook, GPS and other services.
Etymology: Blend of 'app' (software designed to help the user to perform specific tasks) and 'attack' (a period of being strongly affected by something (as a desire or mood)
Cellophobia
Created by: mwgloe21
Pronunciation: Cell-O-Phobia
Sentence: Jane suffered from cellophobia when she went through a tunnel.
Etymology: cell, -phobia-fear of
Anthrophobiaectoclaacu
Created by: roulouken331
Pronunciation: AnthrOE- Phobia- EctOE- ClAH- AHcu
Sentence: Her Anthrophobiaectoclaacu was so bad she had to live only where there was service from her cell phone company.
Etymology: Anthro- Human Phobia- Fear of Ecto- outside Cla- to break Acu- To hear
Nonconexaphobia
Created by: jboileau97
Pronunciation: NoN-Con-Ex-A-PhO-BiA
Sentence: My friend suffers noncenexaphobia.
Etymology: Non- not Conex-conecceted Phobia- fear of Fear of not being connected
Acellularphobia
Created by: klee66
Pronunciation: a-cell-u-lar-phobia
Sentence: She suffers from acellularphobia
Etymology: Prefix: a-witihout cellular- having to do with mobile phone phobia- fear of
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