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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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Stubrub

Created by: EonaFrae

Pronunciation: stub-rub

Sentence: As the only nonsmoker, George watched the stubrub process in awe, thinking to himself what little it did for the sidewalk.

Etymology: Stub [the final remnants of a smoked cigarette] + Rub [To remove by pressure and friction]

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:) - galwaywegian, 2011-01-15: 07:00:00

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Buttodegradable

Created by: chofu67

Pronunciation: but oh de gray duh bull

Sentence: The median strip at the stop light has the look of a large ash tray, proof of the fallacy of buttodegradability

Etymology: butt = slang for cigarettes + degradability

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Tobaccorrosion

Created by: Discoveria

Pronunciation: Toe-back-co-roe-shun

Sentence: Benson said, "Duh! Everyone knows that cigarette ends tobaccorrode into natural substances. That's why the streets are so clean."

Etymology: Tobacco+corrosion. Tobacco: substance used to make cigarettes. Corrosion: dissolution by acid/alkali

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COMMENTS:

American spelling (perhaps more elegant) would be "tobaccorosion". I'd like to acknowledge ErWenn's "fagrosion" etymology which suggested this to me. - Discoveria, 2007-01-25: 09:16:00

Thanks. You got my vote. - ErWenn, 2007-01-26: 00:45:00

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Fagrosion

Created by: ErWenn

Pronunciation: /"fag-'rO-zh&n/

Sentence: Science has long studied the processes of erosion and corrosion, but the related phenomena of gumrosion and fagrosion are much less well understood.

Etymology: From fag (British slang for cigarette) + -rosion (to gnaw or eat away)

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Abracadabutt

Created by: Stevenson0

Pronunciation: ab/ruh/kuh/da/but

Sentence: After his last drag, he flicked his smoke, said abracadabutt and it was gone for good.

Etymology: abracadabra + butt

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COMMENTS:

very funny!!! - Jabberwocky, 2007-01-25: 09:09:00

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Confagation

Created by: Nosila

Pronunciation: kon fag ay shun

Sentence: When Virginia Slims started dating the Marlborough Man (Smoky to his friends), she worried not what would happen after they butted out their emberous reamains. She believed that the natural process of confagation would remove the reminders of their nicotine assignations. She was partly right, as often there would be a fire after they left the area and the coffin nails smouldered and flared up.

Etymology: Conflagration (a very intense and uncontrolled fire) & Fag (finely ground tobacco wrapped in paper; for smoking)

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Marlburrow

Created by: galwaywegian

Pronunciation: marl bur roh

Sentence: when the smokers go to sleep, the marlburrow bunny comes out of his marlburrow with his little broom to brush the naughty little butts down to middle earth.

Etymology: marlboro burrow

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