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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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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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Celloutish
Created by: toadstool57
Pronunciation: cel-lout-ish
Sentence: David acted like a celloutish big shot, taking every call and ignoring Jill, even during the wedding.
Etymology: cell, as in cell phone/sellout, as in betray/loutish, as in rude
Phonejunkie
Created by: jedijawa
Pronunciation: fone-junk-ee
Sentence: Steve was a phonejunkie because he could never let a call go by without taking it and ignoring whoever he was with in the process.
Etymology: phone + junkie
Cellovain
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: seləvān
Sentence: Bob’s love for his new phone is transparent. He is completely cellovain. He is such a servant to this electronic mistress that he will respond to its chirping at almost any time or place. The whole church was aghast when he stopped the proceedings of his wedding to take a call.
Etymology: cell (a telephone with access to a cellular radio system) + vain (having or showing an excessively high opinion of one’s appearance, abilities, or worth)
Conversaswitch
Created by: sarabeth20
Pronunciation: kahn-verse-ah-switch
Sentence: Bob pulled a conversaswitch on me today and I was so ticked.
Etymology:
Rudecell
Created by: remistram
Pronunciation: rood-sel
Sentence: Penelope was so shocked to discover that Chad was a rudecell, she couldn't believe she had read him wrong.
Etymology: rude + cell (phone)
Phoneaholics
Created by: josje
Pronunciation: phoneaholic
Sentence: I like to phone, i am an phoneaholic
Etymology: aholic ans phone.
Telecommunicashunsexpert
Created by: rikboyee
Pronunciation: tell-ee-cuh-myoo-knee-cay-shuns-ex-pert
Sentence: the first time he answered the phone she figured it must be important... but by the fourth phone call she realised he was a telecommunicashunsexpert
Etymology: telecommunications expert, shun
Celluloner
Created by: jonobo
Pronunciation: cell - you - loner
Sentence: The best thing you can do in your life: stay away from celluloners.
Etymology: cellular phone + loner = celluloner.
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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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