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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.
Verboticisms
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Celphcentered
Created by: Jabberwocky
Pronunciation: self/sent/ured
Sentence: Jack was so celphcentered that he had his cell phone surgically attached to his ear so that he wouldn't miss a call.
Etymology: cell + self centered
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COMMENTS:
ExCELLent! (What? Someone had to say it...) Fits the definition perfectly. - Tigger, 2008-06-10: 10:30:00
You may joking about the surgery, but I bet this will be really happening within five years. And so the "me generation" will be ultimately be replaced by the "celphcentered generation". - wordmeister, 2008-06-10: 13:40:00
So very well constructed. - OZZIEBOB, 2008-06-11: 08:09:00
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Communicashun
Created by: TJayzz
Pronunciation: Com-u-nic-ay-shun
Sentence: Joe drove his friends mad whenever he received a call on his cell phone, as he would always communicashun them and proceed to talk for ages to the person on the other end of the line. Eventually most of them started to take great exception to this and decided to 'disconnect' their friendship!
Etymology: Communication (to share or exchange information or ideas) Origin Latin communicare 'to share'. + Shun (avoid, ignore or reject)Origin Old English abhor. = Communicashun
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COMMENTS:
Good word. - OZZIEBOB, 2008-06-11: 08:13:00
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Cellectivehearing
Created by: bookowl
Pronunciation: sell/ec/tiv/hearing
Sentence: Cellectivehearing is a modern pandemic.
Etymology: selective hearing + cell
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COMMENTS:
You are so right! - OZZIEBOB, 2008-06-11: 08:18:00
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Longphoner
Created by: WhiteRhino
Pronunciation: Long-phone-er
Sentence: John couldn't help but talk - he was a natural longphoner.
Etymology: Long, phone
Cellout
Created by: Stevenson0
Pronunciation: cell/out
Sentence: Brian's rudeness was abounding. Whenever he got a call, he would cellout, totally ignoring the person he was with. Cellout behaviour is the twenty-first century's virtual slap in the face. Cellout is uncivil, uncultured, boorish, tasteless, insensitive, disrespectful, ill-mannered, loutish, discourteous and just damn plain rude and impolite.
Etymology: cell + sell out
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COMMENTS:
Something tells me that you have an "issue" with this type of... Oh! Excuse me my cell's singing... - wordmeister, 2007-04-05: 13:56:00
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Convoswitch
Created by: CaptainLoggins
Pronunciation: kahn-vo-switch
Sentence: "She just stopped talking to me when her phone rang! She's such a convoswitch!" "He convoswitched me when his best friend called earlier..."
Etymology: Convo (Conversation) + switch
Cellibate
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: sell a bet
Sentence: Anthony soon learned the hard way that when you answer your cell phone, gab to the other party for ages and leave your wife ignored, you will very soon become cellibate! Yes, the only sex you will have is phone sex.
Etymology: Cell (phone) & Celibate ( abstaining from sexual intercourse)
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COMMENTS:
brilliant :) - galwaywegian, 2011-03-11: 03:31:00
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Celfish
Created by: ziggy41
Pronunciation: (sel-fish)
Sentence: We were just getting into the meat of our conversation when he answered his mother's call and talked for hours, he's such a celfish person.
Etymology: "cell" [cellular phone] and "selfish" [lacking concern for others]
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COMMENTS:
I like this! But maybe, it's because I'm too cell-centered. - wordmeister, 2007-04-05: 13:58:00
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Comments:
Today's definition was suggested by Stevenson0.
Thank you Stevenson0! ~ James
pungineer - 2008-08-04: 07:15:00
Today's definition was suggested by Stevenson0. Thank you Stevenson0. ~ James