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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.
Verboticisms
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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)
Elevatorgasm
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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COMMENTS:
lolol cracked me up!! - libertybelle, 2011-03-16: 08:47:00
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Buttonomy
Created by: lynne61
Pronunciation: butt-aw-no-me
Sentence: His buttonomy forced him into pushing the third floor button although it was still warm from the woman's touch.
Etymology: button and autonomy
Obstresselector
Created by: lumina
Pronunciation: ob/stres/selector
Sentence: Jim was gorgeous, funny and just a blast to hang out with. The first time Danielle invited him up to her apartment, she found that he was an obstresselector! No way was she going down THAT road again. So she quickly changed her mind and pushed the first floor button, TO WHICH Jim obstresselected!...and told him it was just not going to work out. Can you believe, after he got out of the elevator and CLEARLY saw Danielle push the "close door" button, he OBSTRESSELECTED YET AGAIN! She definitely made the right decision.
Etymology: ob:obsess as in obsessive compulsion stres: stress; tend to get stressed easily selector: THEE one who selects
Prodprietary
Created by: bookowl
Pronunciation: prod/pry/e/tary
Sentence: To be prodprietary one must establish prodprietary rights over all things pushable.
Etymology: prod + proprietary
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COMMENTS:
Good word, I nearly voted for this, except its not a verb. - justinchau, 2008-06-23: 06:01:00
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Rebutton
Created by: WhiteRhino
Pronunciation: Re-butt-on
Sentence: Linda rebuttoned the elevator switch nervously.
Etymology: Re - again Button - uh...button.
Pushwhacked
Created by: toadstool57
Pronunciation: push-wackd
Sentence: Although it was already pressed, Jill pushwhacked the buton continuously until the elevator arrived.
Etymology: push, bushwhack
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COMMENTS:
Jill was a pushover. - purpleartichokes, 2007-04-10: 09:21:00
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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
Redbuttonsyndrome
Created by: jonobo
Pronunciation: red button syndrome
Sentence: simply your words ;) every human has the redbuttonsyndrome - best documented in ren & stimpy "space madness" ... where stimpy has to guard a red button but doesn't know why and what the button does... so he starts thinking about it... until he can't resist anymore... . monkey see, monkey do. simple - everybody wants to push the button.
Etymology: red + button + syndrome = redbuttonsyndrome
Comments:
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.
Today's definition was suggested by Osomatic. Thank you Osomatic. ~ James