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DEFINITION: v. To copy and share an idea, thing, or person because you think that it's so wonderful that everyone should have one. n. An open source clone.
Verboticisms
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Porkbomb
Created by: 0xdeadbeef
Pronunciation:
Sentence: Market-terrorists porkbombed the student protest with free samples of smart drinks and soy snacks, infecting the naive who didn't read the retrovirally-enforced brand loyalty EULAs.
Etymology: from forkbomb - the catastrophic cloning of software processes, and the supposed main ingredient of Spam
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COMMENTS:
Oh noes! It won't let me submit another one! I thought of another one that skirts the definition a little. This one is limited to the sweet old ladies in your life as they discover the internet: gramspam - Deleting "Footprints", "sick kid wants cards", and "scary urban legend" for the n-millionth time, Oswald grimaces at "Otters holding hands", dreading the coming deluge of YouTube inspired gramspam. - 0xdeadbeef, 2007-05-08: 02:43:00
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Shadowist
Created by: petersn1
Pronunciation: sha-doe-est
Sentence: I'm not a shadowist, I just thought of it right after you did.
Etymology:
Ripoffligate
Created by: metrohumanx
Pronunciation: RIPOFF-LIH-GATE
Sentence: The despicable Professor Mindell purloined my original nutty ideas and shamelessly touted them as his own in a sickening display of the worst kind of RIPOFFLIGATE behavior ever seen in the halls of macadamia.
Etymology: RIPOFF+profLIGATE; RIPOFF-Late 20th century term meaning to steal PROFLIGATE-1. Openly and shamelessly immoral; dissipated; dissolute. 2. Recklessly wasteful
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COMMENTS:
A true story from Bogus Community College... - metrohumanx, 2008-07-07: 07:14:00
Funny - TJayzz, 2008-07-07: 08:55:00
That's ONE DISTURBING buzz-cut in the illustration. - metrohumanx, 2008-07-07: 08:58:00
shades of Watergate - Jabberwocky, 2008-07-07: 11:31:00
Professor Mindel is clearly just another macadamia nut. Great word....sounds so Washington DCish. - Mustang, 2008-07-07: 19:01:00
The nutty professor strikes again:good word. - OZZIEBOB, 2008-07-07: 19:27:00
Ripoffligate - abrakadeborah, 2009-03-25: 14:18:00
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Lamogrande
Created by: DavidShantz
Pronunciation: Lay-mo-gran-day
Sentence: This guy won't last a week, LamoGrande
Etymology: Lame (surf)+ Oh + Grande (Spanish) Meaning: ineffective and maladroit on a monumental scale
Giveray
Created by: jonobo
Pronunciation: give-a-ray
Sentence: I gaveray all my words. I giveray my girlfriend :)
Etymology: A remix of "give-away to everyone".
Karmagate
Created by: Kurisu
Pronunciation: KAR-muh-gayt
Sentence: This show is so fantastic, it needs to karmagate more freely.
Etymology: Karma: the force generated by a person's actions held in Hinduism and Buddhism to perpetuate transmigration + propagate (and you should look that one up for yourself if you don't know it, because there are several applicable meanings)
Allyourbasitis
Created by: Osomatic
Pronunciation: all your base are belong to us - ha ha ha!
Sentence: That "god kills a kitten" picture has showed up in my inbox about 25 times - looks like some folks have got a serious case of allyourbasitis.
Etymology: all your base! all your base! all your base are belong to us!
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COMMENTS:
This might be the funniest word I've ever seen on verbotomy. Good job! - iwasatripwire, 2007-05-07: 17:41:00
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Herox
Created by: libertybelle
Pronunciation: he-rocks
Sentence: Jason gave everyone herox duplicates of his trademark Cuban shirt for Christmas because he believed in the classic style. Grandma wasn't so sure...
Etymology: he + rocks = play on word Xerox - a genericized trademark
Oureka
Created by: verysimplegame
Pronunciation: Ow-ree-ka
Sentence: Overflowing with the joy of the moment, I ourekaed the email again and again, pausing only occasionally to babble incoherently.
Etymology: Our + Eureka
Propulate
Created by: Pasicheio
Pronunciation:
Sentence: A good song, given file sharing capabilities, will quickly propulate until everyone has a copy
Etymology: Propagate
Comments:
Today's definition was inspired by Cory Doctorow's short stories "Printcrime" and "I-Robot" which are both appear in Overclocked. Thank you Cory! ~ James
I absolutely LOVE the illustration on the homepage... gorgeous. Who did it?
Hi inkvision, Thanks for positive review on the drawing. Glad you like it! It was created by me (James Gang), or one of my clones, I'm not sure which. But really, it was nothing, we just copied Cory. ~ James
Today's definition was suggested by doctorow. Thank you doctorow. ~ James