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'How many trees did you kill to print that?'

DEFINITION: v., To compulsively print out paper copies of all electronic files. n., A printing fetish common among paper pushers who suffer from a paranoid fear that their digital files are disintegrating on their hard drives.

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Printpulsion

zxvasdf

Created by: zxvasdf

Pronunciation: print pul sion

Sentence: When Bob became smitten with printpulsion, his apartment quickly became a recycler's paradise.

Etymology: Print (to print with an electronic printer) & compulsion (impulse to act regardless of rationality)

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nice combo - Jabberwocky, 2008-10-06: 12:00:00

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Hoardcopy

Created by: madprime

Pronunciation: hord - cop - ee

Sentence: "Emily keeps tying up our printer, making hoardcopies of all her emails."

Etymology: hoard + hardcopy

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Great word! - purpleartichokes, 2007-11-07: 13:27:00

Fantastic and very South African! - OZZIEBOB, 2007-11-07: 16:33:00

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Vehecopioitis

Created by: Sambloom

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Reamlove

petaj

Created by: petaj

Pronunciation: reem-luv

Sentence: Every night I hope and pray a reamlover will come my way A girl to hold in my arms and know the magic of her charms 'cause I don't want (want) a file (a fiel) to fall (to fall) apart (apart) I want a reamlover so all my correspondence is truly secure in a filing cabinet

Etymology: ream (pack of paper) + love + dreamlover

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petaj with credit to the misfits - petaj, 2007-11-07: 02:33:00

Love it. Whose been channelling Bobby Darin!? - OZZIEBOB, 2007-11-07: 04:58:00

Ancient Egyptians referred to it as papylust. Thanks for ousting Reamweaver from my skull. - purpleartichokes, 2007-11-07: 12:03:00

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Afourrhea

Created by: OZZIEBOB

Pronunciation: Ey-fawr-REE-uh

Sentence: As copy after copy poured from Roxie's printer, fellow worker worried that her afourrhea would become dendricidal. Indeed, sadly, many years previuosly, her mother had succumbed to documentia.

Etymology: Blend of A-FOUR sized paper - the most commonly used paper for printing & RRHEA: a flow, a current.

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Compulsaprintia

Created by: thebaron

Pronunciation: com-pul-sa-prin-tia

Sentence: It had some years now since Erin had suffered from compulsaprintia, as her bulging file cabinets proved.

Etymology: compulsa (compulsive) (print)

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Antipaperless

Created by: Floatzilla

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Eforestation

Created by: wordslikevenom

Pronunciation: ee-for-est-station

Sentence: Kellie could never shake the old adage drummed into her since back in the days before eforestation was coined as a winning word on Verbotomy dot com. "If it's not printed out on fan-fold, continuous stripy green paper, it's not backed-up", she'd mumble.

Etymology: (d)eforestation: electronic removal of a forest or stand of trees

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Documental

artr

Created by: artr

Pronunciation: däkyəməntl

Sentence: Millie doesn*t trust computers. She prints out every e-mail, report and memo that comes her way. She is so documental that she even prints notices from her e-mail service telling her that her inbox is over its limit. She spends so much time sorting and filing her paper that she barely has any time to do her work as an efficiency expert.

Etymology: document (a piece of written, printed, or electronic matter that provides information or evidence or that serves as an official record) + mental (insane; crazy)

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Pulpgulp

thegoatisbad

Created by: thegoatisbad

Pronunciation: pulp-gulp

Sentence: Few coworkers suspected that Kimberly and Zinnia were waging a silent war against each other, but suspicions were raised after Zinnia spearheaded an effort to reduce "pulpgulp" and Kimberly responded by insisting that all correspondence with her desk occur via facsimile.

Etymology: Pulp (mushy mix of paper fibers and water) + Gulp (to consume quickly)

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Comments:

Verbotomy Verbotomy - 2007-11-07: 00:01:00
Today's definition was suggested by remistram. Thank you remistram! ~ James'

remistram - 2007-11-07: 09:09:00
I worked with someone like this!

Verbotomy Verbotomy - 2010-03-04: 00:16:00
Today's definition was suggested by remistram. Thank you remistram. ~ James

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