Verboticisms

Created by: artr

Pronunciation: kyoōpəlshən

Sentence: If there is a line Ken can hardly contain his urge to jump in. He found true ecstasy when he took his quepulsion to Disney World. Without even knowing what each line was leading to he stood for hours, sometimes vacating a line before taking a particular ride to join a different line. Good thing he went on his own.

Etymology: queue (a line or sequence of people or vehicles awaiting their turn to be attended to or to proceed) + compulsion (an irresistible urge to behave in a certain way)

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Created by: Lapper

Pronunciation: LIE-stand-er

Sentence: As Max walked the length of the city block, he couldn't help but notice a line at least five-hundred people long; not wanting to miss out on whatever novelties awaited, he became a lystander himself.

Etymology: Both a combination of "line" and "bystander", as well as a meaningless play on "A Midsummer Night's Dream"'s Lysander.

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Created by: galwaywegian

Pronunciation: ink loo shun

Sentence: he was sheepishly following his flock mentality, as was evidenced by his inclewesion in the queue for the meat counter despite his vegetarian life style. It looked baaaaad.

Etymology: inclusion, ewe as in sheep.

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Created by: Stevenson0

Pronunciation: a/line/er/ize

Sentence: The only way Freddy could meet people was to join a random line and talk to people because they were a non-moving captive audience forced to listen to him. He would alignternize himself every time he came across people queueing up for anything.

Etymology: line + align + fraternize

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COMMENTS:

The spelling of my word should be'alignternize' - Stevenson0, 2007-06-25: 19:08:00

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Created by: texmom

Pronunciation: q ah fren e ah

Sentence: Unknown to the others her queueaphrenia hit her as she tried to pass toll booth and she ended up in Las Vegas instead of San Diego.

Etymology: queue - line aphrenia - mental disorder word

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Created by: rikboyee

Pronunciation: blind-up

Sentence: i went to the store to buy milk and i ended up blinedup for a week...and after all that i had no milk and three tickets to Lord of the Dance

Etymology: blind, line up

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Created by: Osomatic

Pronunciation: ant + tiss + ih + wait

Sentence: I've got nothing better to do today, I can anticiwait in this line - it could be something good!

Etymology: anticipate + wait

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Created by: wordslikevenom

Pronunciation: Voor-san-ging

Sentence: Rudolph's predilection for voorsanging sometimes meant that Christmas presents wouldn't arrive on time.

Etymology: Voorsanger, Jessica: Performance artist and organiser of the American collective ImprovEverywhere. 'Voorsanging' may have first occurred outside Louis Vuitton's Bond Street shop on 4 August 2010 whereby the collective enacted ‘random queuing’ .

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Created by: ErWenn

Pronunciation: /ˌkjuˈmjun/

Sentence: My queueriosity got the better of me and I decided to queuemune with the rest of the sheep. I just had to know what was inside the big building with all the fancy machinery.

Etymology: From queue + commune

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Created by: ziggy41

Pronunciation: Line-pup

Sentence: As I drew nearer to the exit, I noticed a line forming to my right. I immediately linepupped it without thinking. It turned out they were selling prune-asparagus juice.

Etymology: Line up (to get into a line) + pup (a baby dog that regularly follows someone)

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