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DEFINITION: n. A social network built on the intertwining connections between the people, ideas and things. v. To communicate through a social network.

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Braindrils

Created by: Pasicheio

Pronunciation: Brain-Drills

Sentence: You can't see them, but your braindrils connect you to everyone around you

Etymology: Brain; Tendrils

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Sociababble

CharlieB

Created by: CharlieB

Pronunciation: so-shuh-bab-ul

Sentence: Mandy's office was often pretty noisy in the mornings, when her colleauges were merrily sociababbling.

Etymology: sociable (enjoying the company of other people) + babble (to talk foolishly, incessantly)

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Sinookas

Created by: vonnegut

Pronunciation: si-noo-ka

Sentence: Dr. Hoenikker himself was no doubt a member of my karass, though he was dead before my sinookas, the tendrils of my life, began to tangle with those of his children.

Etymology: Created by Kurt Vonnegut Jr., for Cat's Cradle, published in 1963.

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Caterpilaries

Created by: porsche

Pronunciation: cat/ur/pil/r/ees

Sentence: The caterpilaries of her life continued to metamorphose until she became completely tangled up

Etymology: caterpillar + capillary (tiny hairlike tubes that connect arteries to veins)

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COMMENTS:

Ooo yes! Very good. - pinwheel, 2007-04-19: 11:05:00

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Flacidbook

Created by: wurdless

Pronunciation: fla-cid-book

Sentence: Rodney used flacidbook to meet girls, but it didn't work. He blamed the software.

Etymology: flacid + facebook

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Connectwork

Created by: mweinmann

Pronunciation: kon - nekt - werk

Sentence: Polly had her family, friends and then there was her connectwork, HelloYou. Polly found a kinship of people there through threads of common interest. She had 25 friends in FarmerTown that she really didn't even know, except that they all liked to plant crops and harvest them.

Etymology: connect, network

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COMMENTS:

connects for me - Nosila, 2009-11-05: 19:51:00

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Biothreads

Created by: serendipity9000

Pronunciation: bio-th-reds

Sentence: I am always amazed at all the biothreads I have to trace down when I am packing to move to a new city.

Etymology: Bio (life) + threads (ideas, tendrils, strings, connections)

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Soullattice

Trystera

Created by: Trystera

Pronunciation: sole-LAT-tiss

Sentence: After noticing all the subtle strange coincidences, I felt attuned with the great soullatice, the spiritual matrix underlying and fortifying all concrete reality like metaphysical rebar.

Etymology: "Soul" + "Lattice," a framework made of crossed, overlapping strips.

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Sconet

Created by: ldikarev

Pronunciation: sko net

Sentence: At birth children are mandatory subscribed permanently to one one of the ideologicaly alighend sconets and learn sconeting before they learn to walk, everything is always great in the Googleface Republic.

Etymology: Socially Connected Network

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Meshence

Created by: pinwheel

Pronunciation: mesh/ence

Sentence: John was expelled from school simply because his meshence comprised of friends that his parents described as 'bad influences'.

Etymology: Mesh (an interwoven structure) + essence (one's basic character)

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COMMENTS:

nice -- the mesh is the meshage - wordmeister, 2007-04-19: 09:51:00

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Comments:

Verbotomy Verbotomy - 2007-04-19: 03:51:00
Today's definition was suggested by Kurt Vonnegut and first appeared in his novel Cat's Cradle.
Thank you Mr. Vonnegut! ~ James

jedijawa - 2007-04-19: 08:29:00
These are tough this week!

Verbotomy Verbotomy - 2007-04-19: 10:02:00
Yeah! KV is pushing us up to the next level ~ James

- 2008-04-20: 01:28:00
hairy

Verbotomy Verbotomy - 2008-06-26: 00:01:00
Today's definition was suggested by Kurt Vonnegut and first appeared in his novel Cat's Cradle.
Thank you Mr. Vonnegut! ~ James

Verbotomy Verbotomy - 2009-11-05: 00:12:00
Today's definition was suggested by vonnegut. Thank you vonnegut. ~ James