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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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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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Disintegrette

ohwtepph

Created by: ohwtepph

Pronunciation: dis in tuh gret

Sentence: I was going to pick up the cigarette butt that my brother so rudely threw on the carpeted floor, but I was surprised when I saw it disintegrette right before my eyes!

Etymology: disintegrate + cigarette

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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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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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Concigquence

Created by: Fenners

Pronunciation: con - sig - quence

Sentence: They just don't understand the concigquences

Etymology: consequence + cigarette

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Smooshgradable

Created by: TONYCCIA

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Dislittigation

Created by: santasassassin

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Etymology: The taking away of litter.

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Erastub

Created by: allwise

Pronunciation: era/stub

Sentence: John was a smoker, and left his stubs all over the flat. Unfortunately, since the erastub hadn't kicked in yet, he had to clean the floor himself!

Etymology: erase + stub

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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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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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