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'Thank goodness these things are biodegradable!'

DEFINITION: n. A "natural process" which, smokers believe, makes cigarette butts magically disappear. v. To clean up someone else's butts.

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Buttodegradable

Created by: mweinmann

Pronunciation: butt - oh - dee - graa - d - abel

Sentence: Melissa threws hundreds of butts a week on sidewalks, streets, curbs and driveways; all in the belief that they were buttodegradable. She did not think that she was contributing to the trash heap that is forming beneath and beside us.

Etymology: butt, biodegradable

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Dislittigation

Created by: santasassassin

Pronunciation:

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Etymology: The taking away of litter.

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Smotheritigration

protothor

Created by: protothor

Pronunciation: smuh-thur-it-uh-gray-shun

Sentence: Lucky that cigarette butts smotheritagrate , or else we might be polluting the environment. =o

Etymology: Smother it; a semi-common command directed at smokers who recently dropped their cigarette butts on the ground. igration; coming from 'desinigration', or the natural process by which things decay.

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Buttbustion

Created by: Jabberwocky

Pronunciation: but/bust/shun

Sentence: Buttbustion is the naturally occurring process by which cigarette butts magically disappear down sidewalk cracks

Etymology: butt + combustion

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COMMENTS:

protothor A bit too common for my tastes. - protothor, 2007-01-25: 16:47:00

cockup tease is too racy and now buttbustion is too common - can't please everyone protothor - Jabberwocky, 2007-01-25: 18:21:00

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Buttinhole

jonzerofourteen

Created by: jonzerofourteen

Pronunciation: buh-tin-hohl

Sentence: Bob’s determination to give up smoking was admirable. He took a final draw of his cigarette and threw it to the ground theatrically. This, for sure, would be his last buttinhole.

Etymology: Butt (stub of a cigarette) + in (situation or place with respect to space) + hole (an opening through something)

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COMMENTS:

brilliant :) - galwaywegian, 2011-01-14: 04:26:00

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Combuttstion

petaj

Created by: petaj

Pronunciation: com-butt-styun

Sentence: When your discarded cigarette ends just suddenly burn themselves away to nothing -- that's called spontaneous combuttsion

Etymology: combustion (burn) + butt (cigarette end)

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Noifsorbutts

Created by: rikboyee

Pronunciation: no-ifs-or-butts

Sentence: after studying the science behind noifsorbutts, Kevin was suitably satisfied that this process was indeed 'natural' and 'magical' at the same time

Etymology: [cigarette]butts, no ifs or buts

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Disinterette

Created by: SkyTheWolf

Pronunciation: /duh sint uh reht/

Sentence: John thought the Disinterette would disappear into the ground as soon as he left.

Etymology: Disinte is short for Disintegrate, and ette is short for ciggerette.

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Tobacgo

Created by: Nosila

Pronunciation: to bak go

Sentence: Virginia Slims reckoned that the cigarette butts she chucked would blow off into the air and recycle themselves. That's why they were actually known as tobacgo leaves.

Etymology: Tobacco (leaves of the tobacco plant dried and prepared for smoking) & Go (stop operating or functioning)

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Fagic

erasmus

Created by: erasmus

Pronunciation: fadge ick

Sentence: and as if by fagic it was stuck to the bottom of her shoe and Mary thought it had disappeared.What she forgot to notice was that her shoes had been slowly getting taller and now had a 3 inch platforms of butts.

Etymology: from fag an English word for a cigarette and magic

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COMMENTS:

protothor This made me laugh. I think the sentence could use a bit of work, but it's a great word. - protothor, 2007-01-25: 16:50:00

Yeah, it is great word! - wordmeister, 2007-01-26: 00:52:00

erasmus English born and bred but still I can't get a hold of the language properly. There is no hope for me as a writer. - erasmus, 2007-01-26: 04:05:00

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