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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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Cellibrat
Created by: Mustang
Pronunciation: sell - uh - brat
Sentence: Alexander has always been a cellibrat, rudely leaving friends and even his fiancée, Belle, hanging while he chatted aimlessly with pals about sports, cars, or even other women.
Etymology: Blend of cell and brat, play on the word 'celibrate'.
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COMMENTS:
if he keeps it up he may end up cellibat - Jabberwocky, 2008-06-10: 13:34:00
or the cellibut of a joke! - galwaywegian, 2008-06-10: 16:58:00
Excellent - OZZIEBOB, 2008-06-11: 08:10:00
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Cellbidate
Created by: pinwheel
Pronunciation: sell/bi/date
Sentence: Simon was such a cellbidate that Sophie was beginning to feel that the only way she could interact with him, when they were out together, was to call him on his cell.
Etymology: Sell-by-date (an indication of freshness!) + bi + date
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COMMENTS:
Sounds like this would lead to permanent celibacy... Perhaps it was a religious calling. - wordmeister, 2007-04-05: 05:01:00
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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)
Conversirritationalist
Created by: PythianHabenero
Pronunciation: con-vers-ir-it-ay-shun-al-ist
Sentence: Jenny was a true conversirritationalist: upon receiving a phone call in a movie theatre, she rushed out to catch it and spent the rest of the movie gabbing.
Etymology: "conversationalist" + "irritation"
Cellabate
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: sell a bayt
Sentence: Rita thought it rude when Fritz interrupted their discussions by answering all his cellphone calls and chatting for ages, ignoring her. Fritz was always on the phone instead of the phone being on the Fritz. She told him that if he could not cellabate, then he would become celibate.
Etymology: Cell (handheld portable telephone) & Abate (become less in amount or intensity) & Wordplay on Celibate (abstaining from sexual intercourse)
Mobiloser
Created by: Osomatic
Pronunciation: mobile + oozer
Sentence: Stupid mobilosers, answering their phones while we're eating dinner.
Etymology: mobile + loser
Chatterat
Created by: jrogan
Pronunciation: cha-ter-rat
Sentence: He was a complete chatterat even in movie theaters, so I put a mousetrap on his cellpone and the cat got his tongue
Etymology: chat+rat
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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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
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