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DEFINITION: n. The unpleasant physical and/or psychological effects, which occur after watching the entire season of a TV show, non-stop on DVD. v. To watch an old TV series on DVD with stopping to think.
Verboticisms
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Rerunover
Created by: Sed8ed
Pronunciation: re-run-oh-ver
Sentence: They both felt as if they'd been rerunover after their 36 hour marathon of CSI was over.
Etymology:
Bleaughset
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: just vomit and say set afterwards
Sentence: The box set turned out to be a bleaughset
Etymology: box set bleaugh!
Serialillers
Created by: Bulletchewer
Pronunciation: seer-ree-ull-ill-urs
Sentence: The serialillers from watching LOST season 2 included brainfreeze, dead eye (like red eye but not exclusive to photographs) and numbbum.
Etymology: From "serial", "ill" and "serial killer".
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COMMENTS:
they sound like they are seriesouslyill - Jabberwocky, 2007-04-02: 12:22:00
Damn straight. - Bulletchewer, 2007-04-02: 18:23:00
Now if they watched the complete set of Taggart - they'd be serialmurrded - said with an extremely strong Scottish accent. - petaj, 2007-04-02: 22:53:00
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Overdvded
Created by: josje
Pronunciation: over dvd ed
Sentence: i dont want to watch it anymore i am overdvded
Etymology: over as in to much an dvd as in as it is.
Teeveeheavey
Created by: fantomex
Pronunciation: tee-vee-hee-vee
Sentence: After watching all of 'The Simpsons' season 3, I experienced teeveeheavey for the second time in my life.
Etymology: 'Teevee' comes from the obvious word 'TV', and 'heavey' comes from the word 'heave', meaning to retch or be sick.
Viewtrid
Created by: mrskellyscl
Pronunciation: view-trid
Sentence: Jen's mind turned viewtrid after a serious bout of influenza left her bedridden for a week. Meaning well, Jeff rented seasons 1-4 of "Desperate Housewives" and "America's Next Top Model" for her to watch as she recuperated. It was most apparent when she became suspicious of everyone in the office of telling lies, having secrets and using the wrong color lipstick.
Etymology: view: watch + putrid: morally corrupted, rotted
Episoverload
Created by: rikboyee
Pronunciation: epp-ee-soh-ver-load
Sentence: No matter how often they squeezed in the 'entire' season of Firefly they never suffered episoverload
Etymology: episode, overload
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COMMENTS:
I'd be lying if I said that at least a little of that vote is because I have watched all the episodes of Firefly more or less all at once myself. Several times. - Osomatic, 2007-04-02: 16:32:00
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Rerunnethogre
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: rērəneθōgər
Sentence: Having spent their entire weekend watching 4 full seasons of My Name Is Earl, Bob and Bill feel like they have been attacked by the rerunnethogre. They have somehow absorbed components of the characters from the show into their personalities. Despite their suburban upbringing, they feel as if they live in a trailer park and drive an old beater. Last time they did something like this it took Bob almost a week to stop limping after watching just one season of House. DAMN YOU, NETFLIX!
Etymology: rerun (a program, event, or competition that occurs or is run again) + ogre (a man-eating giant) runneth over [from the Bible: My cup runneth over (having more than enough of something)]
Schizoscreenia
Created by: pinwheel
Pronunciation: skit/so/scree/nee/ah
Sentence: Long after Eric had finished watching Star Trek, he could still hear Captain Kirk's voice in his head. His friends deduced he must be suffering from schizoscreenia.
Etymology: schizophrenia + screen
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COMMENTS:
or mind warp - galwaywegian, 2007-04-02: 05:16:00
He could barely Klingon to reality - petaj, 2007-04-02: 05:36:00
He keeps phasering in and out... - Alchemist, 2007-04-02: 08:07:00
His brain was kirkling along with the warm phaser fire while he drank a spock of tea... - catgrin, 2007-04-02: 12:50:00
Scotty! Scene me up... - wordmeister, 2007-04-02: 13:56:00
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Gilliganausea
Created by: mweinmann
Pronunciation: gill - eh - gan - naw - see - ah
Sentence: Sherwood felt like he had been adrift on the minnow for too long himself. The gilliganausea set in after the 40th episode but Bob convinced him to watch all 98 in one weekend.
Etymology: Gilligan (Gilligan's Island), nausea
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COMMENTS:
great-now that song will be stuck in my head all day:) terrific word. - mrskellyscl, 2009-10-19: 08:17:00
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Comments:
Today's definition was suggested by catgrin.
Thank you catgrin! ~ James
Today's definition was suggested by catgrin. Thank you catgrin. ~ James