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DEFINITION: n. A person who immediately answers all cell phone calls, then chats on and on, leaving the people they're with, hanging. v. To answer your phone even when you are in the middle of another conversation.

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Callisinterruptus

Created by: Nosila

Pronunciation: kawl is inter rup tus

Sentence: Wendy was furious at her fiance Paul's poor manners. He always took phone calls when they were in the middle of something together, like a serious discussion and put her on hold until he was finished. The final straw was on their honeymoon, when at the most intimate moment, he answered a call and talked for ten minutes. She was really mad when she found out that the callisinterruptus was a poll company doing a survey about what he did to make his relationships more romantic!

Etymology: Call is (telephone connection is) & Interrupt us (interfere in someone else's activity)& play on Coitus Interruptus (contraceptive method)

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Decellerate

karenanne

Created by: karenanne

Pronunciation: dee CELL er ate

Sentence: Meetings with my boss are a giant pain in the neck and take way too long, because he always manages to decellerate the meeting at least once by answering his cell phone while we are meeting. And everyone is trapped just sitting there because he does the "wait a minute sign" with his index finger throughout the call. Sometimes he even decellerates things further by placing a call and then holding a three-way phone conversation about other business!

Etymology: cell + decelerate

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Junkia

Created by: galwaywegian

Pronunciation: junn keee ya

Sentence: Her only way to sustain the relationship with this junkia was to call him up while they dated. There they would sit on the abandoned beach holding hands, while talking to each other on their mobiles.

Etymology: nokia, junkie

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COMMENTS:

very funny - Jabberwocky, 2008-06-10: 13:11:00

Very nice - OZZIEBOB, 2008-06-11: 08:17:00

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Standunk

Created by: Beutesant

Pronunciation: Stan-dunk

Sentence: Last night Jim and I were off to a really good start, then that asshole interrupted our conversation to answer a phone call. What a standunk!!!!

Etymology: Standunk: from Stand-derived from the phrases: To stand up(lisa stood me up on this date) and "one night stand" and the word dunk. To Stand up/temporarily dump(dunk) someone due to their seeming lack of importance for a measly phone call.

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Cellfish

Created by: purpleartichokes

Pronunciation: sell-fish

Sentence: When he started taking calls from telemarketers during intimate moments, I realized that he wasn't that into me and was really quite cellfish.

Etymology: cell phone, selfish

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COMMENTS:

petaj another eelegant word from purpeartichokes - petaj, 2007-04-05: 05:00:00

Ooo now that's really fine. - pinwheel, 2007-04-05: 05:02:00

playdohheart perfect! - playdohheart, 2007-04-05: 05:07:00

Proof that sometimes the most obvious ones are the best. - Bulletchewer, 2007-04-05: 05:40:00

Thanks all. OOoo... I feel like such a cell-ebrity. - purpleartichokes, 2007-04-05: 07:12:00

great one! as usual. being a cell-ebrity, this one might get you the verboscar - toadstool57, 2007-04-05: 08:24:00

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Fullbarsbaric

playdohheart

Created by: playdohheart

Pronunciation: full-bars-bare-ic

Sentence: It's really quite fullbarsbaric of you to talk to your ex girlfriend on the phone while you already have perfect reception with me in person!

Etymology: "Full bars" (having excellent cell phone reception) + barbaric

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Recepshunned

Created by: Erikv

Pronunciation: Re sep shund

Sentence: Julie was enjoying their time together in the mountains but reality rushed back when they returned to civilization and the calls caused her to be immediately recepshunned.

Etymology: reception plus shunned

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Mobiloser

Created by: Osomatic

Pronunciation: mobile + oozer

Sentence: Stupid mobilosers, answering their phones while we're eating dinner.

Etymology: mobile + loser

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Phonadict

erasmus

Created by: erasmus

Pronunciation: fone ad ict

Sentence: peter was a complete phonadict, he always put the phone call before anyone else.

Etymology: from phone and addict.

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Nokiavoid

Created by: rebelvin

Pronunciation: NOKIa+AVOID

Sentence: At first I thought he was fine, but soon enough I discovered he was a closet nokiavoid, seemingly unaware of how rude it is to interrupt in-person conversation for cell phone calls, even going so far as chatting up wrong-number callers.

Etymology: NOKIa+AVOID

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Comments:

Verbotomy Verbotomy - 2007-04-05: 04:30:00
Today's definition was suggested by Stevenson0.
Thank you Stevenson0! ~ James

pungineer - 2008-08-04: 07:15:00

Verbotomy Verbotomy - 2009-10-22: 03:35:00
Today's definition was suggested by Stevenson0. Thank you Stevenson0. ~ James