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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.
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Audioblivious
Created by: Ahoytheship
Pronunciation: odd-ee-o-bliv-ee-us
Sentence: Due to the rockin' tune playing over his headphones, he was audioblivious to the large tiger stalking him.
Etymology: audio= having to do with sound oblivious= not paying attention to anything
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COMMENTS:
Please contract me on the real meaning I am audioblivious thank you - audioblivious, 2012-11-28: 19:58:00
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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
Tunehead
Created by: Koekbroer
Pronunciation: toon-hed
Sentence: "Wow, Rachel is a real tunehead. She walked right past that old woman who fell down without so much as a glance"
Etymology: tune + head
Obmusicate
Created by: Carla
Pronunciation: Verb: ob-mUs-i-kait Noun: ob-mUs-i-kuht
Sentence: Verb: Travellers on the London Underground frequently obmusicate. Noun: (Usually teenager) "Please turn off your music at the dinner table - you're such an obmusicate".
Etymology: From 'ob' (against).
Interpodize
Created by: grammatically
Pronunciation: in-TER-pod-ize
Sentence: The school banned all music players for fear of students trying to interpodize.
Etymology: "inter" from root INTERNAL; "pod" from root iPOD
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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Dinsulate
Created by: durananrananran
Pronunciation: Din-SOO-late
Sentence: So she could focus on her yoga, Jane dinsulated herself from the traffic accident outside with a bit of Bon Jovi. Jane never joins in the conversation, she's always dinsulating.
Etymology: portmanteau of din and insulate
Tonezoner
Created by: logan260
Pronunciation: TONE-ZONE-UR
Sentence: SHE'S SUCH A TONEZONER I'M SUPRISED SHE DOESN'T GET RUN OVER
Etymology: TONE-BEING TONED IN TO TUNES BEING ZONED OUT AS IN IN HER OWN WORLD
Iegosize
Created by: Stump
Pronunciation: I/ee-goh/sahyz
Sentence: Whenever things are bad I like to grab my MP3 player and iEgosize.
Etymology: mash of iPod, Ego and internalize.
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
Comments:
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