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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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Mobilephobia
Created by: lindseyhamrick
Pronunciation: Mo-bull-pho-bia
Sentence: Anne went through mobilephobia for a week when she left her phone at her house when she went on vacation.
Etymology: Phobia- fear of
Exomund
Created by: beardo
Pronunciation: As its spelled... Ex-o-mund
Sentence: I have been Exomunded ever since the satilite fell out of the sky.
Etymology: Exo-, outside -mund, world
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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Cellyoufrightus
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: sell ewe freye tusss
Sentence: she had all the symptoms of cellyoufrightus, red face, hyperventilation, itchy finger and tunnel vision. They all cleared up once the train left the tunnel.
Etymology: cellulitus cell you fright us
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COMMENTS:
she should have remained cellyoubate! - Nosila, 2010-06-11: 11:55:00
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Blackedoutberry
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: blakd owt berree
Sentence: SONYa Ericsson went into Blackedoutberry mode, when her communicator failed to connect with the Mother ship. In her Qwest for an I-mate, she had gotten out of the Rover, and in one Cingular move had stepped on something Sharp, fell on her Acer, got a Gigabyte on her Vertu and did a Handspring back onto her Mitsubishi spacecraft, just before she ran out of O2. Over the Verizon, she spied a Cricket on a Palm and Samsung the praises of a Nokia No Kiss, NoTel policy before she Motorola'd back to Earth. When she landed safely in the Pacific, all the Siemens gave her a Boost Mobile, so she is now no longer a Virgin Mobile. Wit-DaeWoo! Wit-Daewoo!
Etymology: Blackberry ( a wireless handheld device which supports push email, web browsing, internet faxing, instant messaging, text messaging and other communication services.) & Blacked Out (a momentary loss of consciousness ;the failure of electric power for a general region;darkness resulting from the extinction of lights (as in a city invisible to enemy aircraft);a suspension of radio or tv broadcasting ;partial or total loss of memory)
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COMMENTS:
Wonder if you couldn't make a great pie from blackedout berries. - Mustang, 2009-05-22: 01:15:00
excellent - Jabberwocky, 2009-05-22: 13:08:00
clever! - splendiction, 2009-05-22: 21:56:00
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Nophonobia
Created by: diyan627
Pronunciation: no-fn-obia the accent is on OBIA. fn is barely pronounced
Sentence: Despite Lana's nophonobia, ironically, she's always one to lose her phone or accidentally destroy it in odd ways like when she dropped it in her water at Pei Wei as she passed it to Zack.
Etymology: no + phone + phobia (an intense, abnormal, or illogical fear of a specified thing)
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COMMENTS:
Great word! - Mustang, 2008-04-03: 18:59:00
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Telephonecellattack
Created by: balku4
Pronunciation: te=le-fown-cel-la-tac
Sentence: help she is having a telephowncellatack
Etymology: its in the word
Phonozmiac
Created by: Gidaio
Pronunciation: fon-oz-me-ak
Sentence: The phonozmiac screamed, "Stop the train!!"
Etymology: I dunno. Just something that sounded cool. I guess "phone" + "phobiac."
Cellophantism
Created by: biscuitbiter
Pronunciation: cell-o-fan-tis-sm
Sentence: She let loose her cellophantism with loud howls of horror when realised the little battery-shaped icon on her mobile phone display was blinking red.
Etymology:
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