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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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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
Narcisstatistic
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: nar sis stat tis tik
Sentence: No wonder there are so many distracted driving laws and lawsuits against people too stupid to concentrate on what they are doing and act safely. Take Penny, who merrily walked into the path of a car on the street, oblivious due to her wearing her earpads, listening to fluffy pop music. The driver of the car lost control to avoid her, flipped over and went to Heaven. Penny herself narrowly avoided becoming another narcisstatistic and still doesn't know it!
Etymology: Narcississtic (characteristic of those having an inflated idea of their own importance) & Statistic (a datum that can be represented numerically)
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
Iptrovert
Created by: librarian
Pronunciation: ip'-tro-vert
Sentence: i was listening to my sister for a while but then just iptroverted because he was complaining about her friends.
Etymology: ipod + introvert
Hipodnotism
Created by: lynx13
Pronunciation:
Sentence:
Etymology: it is a word that contains the words "hypnotism" and "ipod" in one word
Ipotunism
Created by: IHeartKiwiTarts
Pronunciation: "eye-poe-tune-is-im"
Sentence: I find my personal zen in the practice of ipotunism.
Etymology: from IPod, Tune and the buddhist "ism"
Intunent
Created by: EonaFrae
Pronunciation: in-two-nent
Sentence: With the music blaring and her arms shaking, Rebecca's intunent energy was contagious.
Etymology: In [prefix: in, into] + Tune [a succession of musical sounds forming a melody] + Ent [suffix: full of]
Audiosamigo
Created by: maxxy
Pronunciation: aw-dee-OHS-a-MEE-goh
Sentence: Jim sat behind his desk, closed the textbook, took out his MP3 player, smiled at the class, and -- audiosamigo!
Etymology: audio + adios + amigo
I-thistic
Created by: josje
Pronunciation: Ithistic
Sentence: Often an autist is recognised ad its I-thistic earphones.
Etymology: from autism
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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