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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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Cigerase

Created by: jbricandy

Pronunciation: Cig-erase

Sentence: She dropped her cigarette and expected it to cigerase by itself.

Etymology:

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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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Tobaccgone

Created by: Nosila

Pronunciation: to bak gawn

Sentence: When Diane DuMaurier met Peter Jackson, it was love at first sight. Their first date was at a Matinee and afterwards they went to the Lucky Strike Bowling Alley. He puffed away, one cigarette after another and seemed to think all the butts would evaporate away in a tobaccgone process. When she realized he left a mess behind, she ran off with the Marlboro Man. Peter thought that took a lot of Gauloise to do such a thing. They were last seen trying to Export A Camel.

Etymology: Tobacco (leaves of the tobacco plant dried and prepared for smoking or ingestion) & Gone (having all been spent;away;former)

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Bioprestidigitation

hoylus

Created by: hoylus

Pronunciation: bye oh press ti deegee tay schon.

Sentence:

Etymology: prestidigitation is slight of hand as used by magicians, bio suggests natural.

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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

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Shoawa

Created by: adbern

Pronunciation: sho-wah

Sentence:

Etymology:

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COMMENTS:

Sho a wat? - egonschiela, 2007-01-25: 16:18:00

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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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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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Bioputrifacation

Created by: TrJoshB

Pronunciation: bi-oh-pew-tri-fak-eh-shun

Sentence: It's ok to throw you cigarette butts out the window, they are bioputrifacatable.

Etymology: biology + putrefy + fag + decompisition

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COMMENTS:

protothor Interesting use of anti-smoking regalia with this oen. - protothor, 2007-01-25: 16:48:00

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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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