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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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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)
Buttsumption
Created by: ahwinters
Pronunciation: but-sum-shun
Sentence: If it weren't for buttsumption, the lawn outside the hospital would be made up of cigarette remains entirely.
Etymology: cigraette butt + consumption
Fagicide
Created by: Acostell
Pronunciation: fag-i-side
Sentence: Alright, well I'm done smoking this are you? (guy nods) alright let's commit some fagicide and get the hell outta here"
Etymology: Fag(british slang for cig)+ -icide (from latin -cidium "a killing")
Biodegradabutt
Created by: Javeson1
Pronunciation: bah-yoh-dee-grayd-ah-but
Sentence: Contrary to popular belief, cig butts are most def NOT biodegradabutt.
Etymology: biodegradable + (cigarette) butt
Cigerase
Created by: jbricandy
Pronunciation: Cig-erase
Sentence: She dropped her cigarette and expected it to cigerase by itself.
Etymology:
Fagistination
Created by: Maureen
Pronunciation: fag-is-ti-nay-shun
Sentence: Don't worry about finding a bin once you stub them out fagistination will take care of them.
Etymology: fag -colloq. cigarette. istine- from phillistine-someone lacking in refinement. ation- suffix for action or process.
Disintokration
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: disintōkrāshən
Sentence: Just about every car sold in America is equipped with an ash tray. Many go unused because smokers believe in disintokration, that magic process by which their butts, wrappers and even packaging go up in smoke just like the cigs themselves. A quick flick of the wrist and all responsibility is done.
Etymology: disintegration (the process of coming to pieces) + toke (the drawing of a puff from a cigarette or pipe)
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COMMENTS:
Sadly, too true! Good Word. - Nosila, 2009-08-27: 15:21:00
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Stubfuscate
Created by: ArsMajika
Pronunciation: STUB-fews-KATE
Sentence: "Don't worry about that cigar butt... it will totally stubfuscate in a few days."
Etymology: Stub - end of the cigarette; Obfuscate - to hide, to disappear.
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COMMENTS:
This one I like! - allwise, 2007-01-25: 02:58:00
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Osmoksis
Created by: purpleartichokes
Pronunciation: ah-smok-sis
Sentence: Flippantly flipping her cigarette butt out the window, Sue mistakenly thought it would disappear in a few days through the magical process of osmoksis, or perhaps the other mythical process, cigarotte.
Etymology: osmosis, smoke
Marlborogenesis
Created by: Alchemist
Pronunciation: mahrl-bore-oh-GEN-uh-sis
Sentence: Thanks to marlborogenesis, the world is filled with little yellow flowers. I try to do my part.
Etymology: Marlboro + (partheno)genesis