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DEFINITION: v. To turn up the volume on your ipod and zone out all exterior noise, chatter, distractions, and focus on what's really important - your own feelings! n. A person who is humming their own tune, and ignoring everything else.
Verboticisms
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Inthezone
Created by: Flamechick911
Pronunciation: In-the-zone
Sentence: Later on they told me she'd been screaming my name for an hour, but I can't help it if I'm inthezone.
Etymology: from zoning out
Escapod
Created by: rikboyee
Pronunciation: ess-cayp-odd
Sentence: as her parents started fighting in the front seat, she decided to escapod for the rest of the journey
Etymology: escape, ipod
Mpme
Created by: jedijawa
Pronunciation: em-pee-me
Sentence: Cindy was having an mpme moment while she tuned out the world around her and listened to her iPod.
Etymology: mp3 + me
Musolate
Created by: Krixwell
Pronunciation: moos-o-layt
Sentence: Emma really loved to listen to music, taking refuge from problems, annoyances and real life in general, usually musolating herself from everything else.
Etymology: music + isolate (to seperate something from its surroundings, in this case usually oneself)
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COMMENTS:
Just for the record, I made this before I went to read the other verboticisms, so the similarity to the submission "musisolating" is coincidental. - Krixwell, 2013-09-11: 09:26:00
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Myopera
Created by: scrabbelicious
Pronunciation: My-op-er-ah
Sentence: Maria's myopera did not mean she needed to wear her headphones ALL the time, no, it was just whenever she was awake.
Etymology: Rythmic fusion of 1) Myopia - condition commonly referred to as shortsightedness (which is quite a long word) and 2)Opera - musical which is very small (or far away) and requires the audience to use binoculars in order to see the players on the stage.
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COMMENTS:
Based on myopia? - artr, 2009-08-06: 11:11:00
Diva-licious word!!! Does this mean the Presbyopera means when you sing in a Protestant Church??? - Nosila, 2009-08-07: 22:29:00
Presbyopera, some kinda weird Elvis convention, probably would've could've should've been the subject of a Fr Ted Christmas special. - scrabbelicious, 2009-08-08: 09:43:00
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Iternalize
Created by: ErWenn
Pronunciation: /I-'t&r-n&-"lIz/
Sentence: Iternalizing is a good way to avoid annoying small talk with the person sitting next to you on the bus.
Etymology: From i- (as in iPod, iTunes, and iMac) and internalize
Idiopod
Created by: jrogan
Pronunciation: idiopod
Sentence: Annie was a compulsive idiopod who was permanently plugged into her ipod. It was the soundtrack of her life, and she never missed a beat, unless it happened outside her head.
Etymology: ipod + idiot
Audiovile
Created by: omista
Pronunciation: aw-di-O-VIL
Sentence: her disregard for the world around her was exemplified in her audiovile ways, especially when she was plugged into her new Ipod
Etymology: Audiophile + vile
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