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'Excuse me, but that's my button.'

DEFINITION: v. To push a push-button that has just been pushed by someone else because you "need" to push it yourself; common at elevators, traffic lights, and family meetings. n. A person who "needs" to push their own buttons.

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Reopus

Created by: willster

Pronunciation: re-o-pus

Sentence: It was intusive how reopus the woman was with everything she saw.

Etymology: re+or+push

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Elevatorgasm

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Created by: artr

Pronunciation: eləvātərgazəm

Sentence: It all started when, as a young girl, her father would allow her to push the button on the elevator at his office. She still gets a charge, an elevatorgasm, when she is able to push her own button.

Etymology: elevator (a platform or compartment housed in a shaft for raising and lowering people or things to different floors or levels) + orgasm (a climax of sexual excitement)

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libertybelle lolol cracked me up!! - libertybelle, 2011-03-16: 08:47:00

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Pushosis

Created by: hobodad

Pronunciation: pushosis

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Etymology: push + psychosis

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Repusher

Created by: Koekbroer

Pronunciation: ree-push-r

Sentence: "Just press this button in front of Doug and you'll see him follow suit. He can't help himself. He's a repusher."

Etymology: "re" as in "do again"+ push

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Redonedant

Created by: pinwheel

Pronunciation: re/dun/dant

Sentence: I know it was redonedant to press the button again but you never know, perhaps he didn't press it hard enough!

Etymology: redundant + done

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Needness

Created by: baicec

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Excessapress

playdohheart

Created by: playdohheart

Pronunciation: eck-ses-a-press

Sentence: He must be re-presssive compulsive, because he excessapressed the door close button right after he saw me do it.

Etymology: Excess + press

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He had OCDbutton. - purpleartichokes, 2007-04-10: 10:16:00

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Impatientitis

Created by: Tanik

Pronunciation: im-paa-shunt-eyetis

Sentence: Tony's impatientitis made it impossible for him to just wait. He had to push the button over and over.

Etymology: impatien (can't wait) and itis (disease)

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Pushcentric

Created by: mweinmann

Pronunciation: push - sent - trik

Sentence: Lolita was so pushcentric that she just went nuts if anyone else pushed the buttons. In the elevator, if someone else got there first, she pushed it too. It became complicated if she was playing a game where someone had to hit a timer button. When she was at her mom's house for dinner and mom hit the oven timer, Lolita pushed it too. She ended up in Therapy and diagnosed as a buttonphrenic with a hint of repressed anger...

Etymology: egocentric (selfcentered, push, centric (centered on)

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Prestivity

Created by: Niktionary

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Comments:

Verbotomy Verbotomy - 2007-04-10: 02:32:00
Today's definition was suggested by Osomatic.
Thank you Osomatic! ~ James

Mustang - 2008-06-19: 08:28:00
Being compushive isnt easy. It takes lots of energy and ingenuity.

Verbotomy Verbotomy - 2009-10-27: 02:10:00
Today's definition was suggested by Osomatic. Thank you Osomatic. ~ James