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DEFINITION: v. To engage in intimate activities with your "ex", even when you know that you will never, ever, get back together again. n. Intimate activities undertaken with an ex-lover
Verboticisms
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Rebooty
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: rēboōtē
Sentence: Rob and Jill know that they will never be able to get back together. There have been too many hurtful incidents for that to be possible. Despite that they can’t seem to resist the lure of the rebooty call. For a short time they can forget the past, as long as one of them departs quickly, before they can start talking.
Etymology: reboot (an act of booting a computer system again) + booty call (a sexual invitation or rendezvous)
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COMMENTS:
nice one - galwaywegian, 2011-02-11: 05:11:00
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Humpanex
Created by: BMott
Pronunciation: Hump - un - x
Sentence: Jezebel knew she wasn't ever going to call Tony again, but she couldn't resist a little humpanex after not seeing him since their last date, over a year ago.
Etymology: Hump - horny, sex, make-out an - obvious ex - previous boyfriend, girlfriend, spouse
Olsetose
Created by: adbern
Pronunciation: ol-sa-dose
Sentence: Olsetose, number one in the years.....
Etymology: OLd SEx TO SEe
Flinger
Created by: sodium
Pronunciation: fling-grr
Sentence: Judy and Mark broke up in March, but flingered together until Mark decided to get together with Robert.
Etymology: fling + linger
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COMMENTS:
Hehe! From flingo to flingering. It has been a very short romance. - purpleartichokes, 2007-02-16: 15:20:00
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Excalibre
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: eks-kal-uh-ber
Sentence: Jill has fond memories of the men in her life. She rates them with her unique system labeling each with an excalibre rating based on their abilities with Excalibur. Jimmy was her .22, fun to play with but not too serious. When she wants something serious she will call her .44 magnum or .50 Cal.
Etymology: ex (former) + calibre (the diameter of a cylindrical body, esp the internal diameter of a tube or the bore of a firearm) a play on Excalibur the sword of King Arthur
Sexparate
Created by: Discoveria
Pronunciation: Secks-par-rate
Sentence: Desperate Delilah sexparated with suave Samson even though he would never forgive her for betraying him and his biblically significant head of hair.
Etymology: Sex + separate
Copudetat
Created by: Stevenson0
Pronunciation: kop/u/dey/ta
Sentence: John had no luck at the dance club, so decided to stop by his ex's place and try to pull off a copud'etat
Etymology: copulate + coup d'etat (to exploit)
Retrobound
Created by: ErWenn
Pronunciation: /ˈɹɛtɹoˌbaʊnd/
Sentence: GILMORE GIRLS SPOILER: As expected, Lorelai's fling with Chris turned out just to be a retrobound.
Etymology: From retro- + bound, as in "rebound"
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COMMENTS:
I switched to IPA for pronounciation. It makes it seem more professional, which makes it seem funnier to me. - ErWenn, 2007-02-16: 10:38:00
The funny thing is that I don't even watch Gilmore Girls. All I know, I pick up from snippets overheard from the other room while doing my homework while my better half watches. - ErWenn, 2007-02-16: 10:40:00
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Remance
Created by: Mustang
Pronunciation: ree-manse
Sentence: When Gloria hads recurring bouts of regret over breaking up with Mark she engages him in remance, finding opportunities here and there to cuddle and make out, though she has no desire to rekindle the relationship itself.
Etymology: Play on the word 'romance' with prefix 're' - to do over
Exrelapsure
Created by: alphabetapolothology
Pronunciation:
Sentence: As soon as Johnny left, Jane called her friend to admit that she had exrelapsured yet again.
Etymology: ex- relaspe- rapture
Comments:
ErWenn - 2007-02-17: 08:10:00
You know, if everyone could vote an unlimited number of times, or if there was a ranking system, instead of a voting system, that would take care of several problems at once. It would fix the late-post deficiency as well as the too-many-good-words problem.
Discoveria - 2007-02-17: 09:33:00
Maybe no new words should be displayed until there are at least 10, so you won't be tempted to vote until there's a sizeable batch of words.
ErWenn - 2007-02-18: 10:16:00
Or even just switch the vote to yesterday's verboticisms while people are creating today's.
Discoveria - 2007-02-18: 18:37:00
That would have the added (mostly good) effect of giving me something to do on Verbotomy on Saturdays.
Hey ErWenn and Discoveria, We could try either of these options. Would you be interested in a test week using an alternative voting sytem? Let me know ~ James (james@verbotomy.com)