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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

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Copumobilate

Created by: mweinmann

Pronunciation: kop - u - mobe - ill - aet

Sentence: Jessica was often known to "kill two birds with one stone". She did not have time for Jerry and she needed to take phone calls from her law practice. Her solution was to copumobilate; that is talk on the phone while being intimate with Jerry.

Etymology: copulate, mobile

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Communipulsion

Created by: artr

Pronunciation: kuh-myoo-ni-puhl-shuhn

Sentence: The minister thought he must have really hit a nerve with his sermon when one of his parishioners jumped up with a shout and ran out of the church on Sunday. His ego was slightly deflated when he later learned that the member of his congregation had been a struck by communipulsion - a vibrating cell phone in her pocket and not his masterful words.

Etymology: communication (a strong, usually irresistible impulse to perform an act) + compulsion (something imparted, interchanged, or transmitted)

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Cellfpossessed

Created by: porsche

Pronunciation: self/pose/essed

Sentence: She was so cellfpossessed that she had to pick up her calls immediately

Etymology: cell + selfpossessed + possessed

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Celladdiction

Created by: Mustang

Pronunciation: SELL-eh-dik-shun

Sentence: Harold has what amounts to a celladdiction, an irresistible instinct to answer calls on his cell phone, no matter the time of day or activity he might be engaged in, even including romantic interludes.

Etymology: Blend of words 'cell' (for cell phone) and 'addiction' (n. the state of being enslaved to a habit or practice or to something that is psychologically or physically habit-forming)

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