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DEFINITION: v. To instinctively answer your cell phone ring, even when caught in a somewhat compromising position. n. The instinct to answer your phone
Verboticisms
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Hiphonetics
Created by: BemaSelf
Pronunciation: Hi-phone-et-ics
Sentence: The guy totally has Hiphonetics or something. He answered the phone even though we were in the shower together!
Etymology: Hello, Hi, Phone, Phonetics
Tigerror
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: tie gerr urrr
Sentence: One tigerror too many and he ended up looking like a car crash!
Etymology: tiger error
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COMMENTS:
"snigger" - galwaywegian, 2009-12-03: 06:52:00
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Autopilotmode
Created by: guesser
Pronunciation: auto-pilot-mode
Sentence: Despite her better judgement to leave the burning house, her brain, in autopilotmode, stopped to answer the phone on the way out the door!
Etymology:
Hellololic
Created by: treyb
Pronunciation: Hell-low-lawl-lick
Sentence: That Sandra is such a hellololic, she answered her phone right in the middle of the movie.
Etymology:
Muffamoan
Created by: kensiesfate
Pronunciation: muff-uh-moan
Sentence: I like to muffamoan when we are in bed togather. It turns me on
Etymology:
Ringstinct
Created by: toadstool57
Pronunciation: ring-stinct
Sentence: Jill interrupted a passionate kiss as her ringstinct kicked in, fumbling for the phone, she tells her man to hold the thought and they can resume the kiss as soon as she gets off the phone.
Etymology: ring/instinct
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COMMENTS:
clever! - galwaywegian, 2007-05-18: 07:27:00
Jill should have read the ringstructions and set up her voicemail - Jabberwocky, 2007-05-18: 10:48:00
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Thumbjerk
Created by: ErWenn
Pronunciation: /ˌθʌmˈdʒɝk/
Sentence: Answering my cell phone is such a thumbjerk reaction that when it rings while I'm asleep, I will pick it up, open it, put it to my ear, say "Hello," and wake up, in that order. I sometimes have to ask whoever called to to repeat their first sentence.
Etymology: As in knee-jerk, only with a thumb.
Pickall
Created by: logarithm
Pronunciation: pik-all
Sentence: My boss is looking for a natural PICKALL to replace the receptionist whom he has just fired because he caught her polishing her fingernails unperturbed by the ringing phone.
Etymology: Pick + all + call
Callpulation
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: kal pul ay shun
Sentence: The scene was set. Soft music, candles, champagne, oysters, a luxurious hotel suite. They were passionately entwined. They barely knew each other, but they were well on their way to changing that. Just when things were getting very hot and heavy, she could not resist the callpulation. Her cell was singing out the message that always got her attention, "I'm so excited...". She could not resist and just had to answer. "Yeah, we'll be done in five, Rudy, where's my next trick?" At that point, her bedmate knew that although he ate a dozen oysters, only 6 of them were going to work tonight!
Etymology: Call (a telephone connection) & Pull (direct toward itself or oneself by means of some psychological power or physical attributes) & Copulation (the act of sexual procreation between a man and a woman)
Cellpulsion
Created by: newworldview
Pronunciation: sell-pull-shun
Sentence: His cellpulsion was so strong that he answered his phone in the middle of a root canal.
Etymology: Cell (phone) + compulsion
Comments:
Today's definition was suggested by duchessella. Thank you duchessella! ~ James
Today's definition was suggested by duchessella. Thank you duchessella. ~ James