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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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Impodsolate
Created by: chofu67
Pronunciation: im pod so late
Sentence: I was wrong to think I could impodsolate my way through the city streets without being distracted by reality.
Etymology: ipod + isolate
Oblissvious
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: əblisvēəs
Sentence: Mary seems to always have her earbuds stuck in her ears. She goes through life completely oblissvious to what is going around her. Co-workers are amused to see her dancing down the hall whisper-singing her favorite tune. The scary part is that her iPod hasn't worked for weeks. All the music she hears comes from her head.
Etymology: oblivious (not aware of or not concerned about what is happening around one) + bliss (perfect happiness; great joy)
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
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
Oblivimuse
Created by: erasmus
Pronunciation: ob li vee meuse
Sentence: florence had a moment of complete oblivimuse until frank tapped her on the shoulder because she was singing out of key
Etymology: from being oblivious and amused by something
Egonore
Created by: johnnyrockett
Pronunciation: E-go-nor
Sentence: While the clerk was robbed, I egonored her while listening to the new song from Justin Timberlake.
Etymology: Ego - an inflated feeling of pride in your superiority to others Ignore - to refrain from noticing or recognizing
Inarcisdissociate
Created by: bokashiman
Pronunciation: eye-nar-sis-dis-so-she-ate
Sentence:
Etymology: from narcissism - love of self and dissociation - zoning out
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.
Idore
Created by: mdschermer
Pronunciation: I-dore
Sentence: Only when I really pump it up, I can tune out all the ordinary people around me and truly iDore myself.
Etymology: iPod and to adore put together, with the "i" at the beginning also stressing the importance of the self.
Musicape
Created by: lebeast
Pronunciation: muse-i-cape
Sentence: I live to musicape
Etymology: music+escape
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