http://www.verbotomy.com/verboticisms.php Verboticisms: The latest invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers for today's Verbotomy comic and create-a-word challenge en-us Tue, 9 Mar 2010 6:04:37 EST Tue, 9 Mar 2010 6:04:37 EST http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Verbotomy.com help@verbotomy.com help@verbotomy.com http://www.verbotomy.com/verbotomy.php?jid=surf DEFINITION: v., To "surf", or ride in a freestanding position on a bus, train or subway. n., A sport popular among transit riders who attempt to complete the entire commute in a freestanding position without using the handrails. help@verbotomy.com Tue, 9 Mar 2010 6:04:37 EST http://www.verbotomy.com/verbotomy.php?jid=surf http://www.verbotomy.com/verboticism.php?vid=19693 Allaboarding: /all-a-board-ing/ SENTENCE:.Allaboarding is a sport designed to add a little excitement to a morning commute. As with surfboarding, skateboarding, flowboarding and snowboarding; allaboarding is about the skill of combining balance and motion using public transportation. Specialties can include: metroboarding for subway specialists, retroboarding for those who still use trolleys, transboarding for bus passengers and railboarding for train riders. In the sport of allaboarding travelers must make an entire commute without support from handrails or straps during frequent stops, starts and acceleration. Points are deducted for bumping other passengers, hitting someone in the knee, eye or crotch with a purse, briefcase or elbow, not using deodorant or marinating oneself in a vile perfume or cologne. ETYMOLOGY: boarding: sport of balancing on a board in motion; aboard: the act of getting aboard a bus, train or ship -- "All aboard" is an expression heard often in old movies from the engineer of a train or the driver of a bus or trolley CREATED BY: mrskellyscl. help@verbotomy.com (mrskellyscl) Tue, 9 Mar 2010 5:27:40 EST http://www.verbotomy.com/verboticism.php?vid=19693 http://www.verbotomy.com/verboticism.php?vid=19692 Brakedance: /brākdans/ SENTENCE:.Cindy didn*t use to enjoy her ride to work. When she didn*t get a seat, which was often, she would grab a strap and hold on for dear life. If she had stopped for coffee she would often spill it on herself or other passengers, maybe even sloshing some up her nose. Now she will get on the bus and forgo a seat even if available. The new sport is to brakedance all the way to work, holding on to nothing, swaying with every lurching turn and every sudden application of the brakes. It wakes her up so much better than a stop at Starbucks. ETYMOLOGY: Brake (a device for slowing or stopping a moving vehicle) + dance (move rhythmically to music) play off breakdancing CREATED BY: artr. help@verbotomy.com (artr) Tue, 9 Mar 2010 3:43:44 EST http://www.verbotomy.com/verboticism.php?vid=19692 http://www.verbotomy.com/verboticism.php?vid=19691 Strapfloater: /strap-float-er/ SENTENCE:. ETYMOLOGY: staphanger + floater CREATED BY: Koekbroer. help@verbotomy.com (Koekbroer) Tue, 9 Mar 2010 1:04:32 EST http://www.verbotomy.com/verboticism.php?vid=19691 http://www.verbotomy.com/verboticism.php?vid=19690 Huladupe: /hu-la-dyüp/ SENTENCE:.The first time Kimberly saw Zinnia was on a school bus in 1993. Zinnia was a new student and nobody on the bus would budge an inch to afford her a seat. Nervously, and awkwardly, Zinnia positioned and braced herself as the bus lurched toward school, continually redistributing her body weight and the weight of her backpack in rhythm with the jerky, crowded vehicle. Kimberly tried to articulate the intricate dance Zinnia seemed to be performing, and when the bus braked just hard enough for Zinnia to fall face-first, Kimberly had an epiphany: "Hula-dupe!" ETYMOLOGY: hula (a hip-centric dance popular at Hawaiian resorts) + dupe (someone easily fooled) CREATED BY: thegoatisbad. help@verbotomy.com (thegoatisbad) Tue, 9 Mar 2010 12:24:53 EST http://www.verbotomy.com/verboticism.php?vid=19690 http://www.verbotomy.com/verboticism.php?vid=19689 Coacharacha: /koatch a ratcha/ SENTENCE:.Elena commuted everyday for an hour on the bus and never was able to find a seat or a gentleman on it. She used her time to practice her dance steps and most enjoyed The Coacharacha as she called it. One day she brought her music and swayed to that tune, keeping her balance and shaking her hips. Before long others were joining her to make their commute more fun. The driver was greatly amused to see her lead a conga line of dancers off the bus downtown. Eventually she got a T-Mobile commercial getting everyone at her stop at the town square to dance the coacharacha which was a huge hit on Youtube! ETYMOLOGY: Coach (a vehicle carrying many passengers; used for public transport or a railcar where passengers ride) & La Cucaracha (A Latin mambo-style dance to the the tune of La Cucaracha, a popular Spanish/Mexican folksong about a cockroach, thought to satirize the Spanish American War) CREATED BY: Nosila. help@verbotomy.com (Nosila) Tue, 9 Mar 2010 12:17:29 EST http://www.verbotomy.com/verboticism.php?vid=19689 http://www.verbotomy.com/verbotomy.php?jid=ring DEFINITION: v., To call your cellphone when you have misplaced it, hoping that it will ring so that you can locate it. n., The sound of a lost cellphone. help@verbotomy.com Mon, 8 Mar 2010 1:00:01 EST http://www.verbotomy.com/verbotomy.php?jid=ring http://www.verbotomy.com/verboticism.php?vid=19688 Beacontone: /bee-kon-tone/ SENTENCE:.Doug had specially programmed his cellphone to ring with a custom high-pitched tone when dialed from his landline. He called it a "beacontone" and was quite proud of it. The problem was that it was so high-pitched he couldn't hear it. He kept forgetting to reprogram it so whenever he lost the phone he would have to call the kid from next door to listen for it. ETYMOLOGY: beacon, tone CREATED BY: Koekbroer. help@verbotomy.com (Koekbroer) Mon, 8 Mar 2010 9:06:30 EST http://www.verbotomy.com/verboticism.php?vid=19688 http://www.verbotomy.com/verboticism.php?vid=19687 Autophonia: // SENTENCE:.Noun: He often rsorted to autophonia to find his iPhone. Verb: She autophoned herself daily since she could not keep up with her cell phone. ETYMOLOGY: CREATED BY: georgedent. help@verbotomy.com (georgedent) Mon, 8 Mar 2010 2:00:07 EST http://www.verbotomy.com/verboticism.php?vid=19687 http://www.verbotomy.com/verboticism.php?vid=19686 Buzzterbation: /buz-ter-bay-shon/ SENTENCE:.Even though she knew it was a sin to spill her cell on the couch, Kimberly often fell asleep playing snake on her Nokia 5110 while watching Animal Planet. She often woke up and would buzzterbate frantically, searching through layer and layer of snuggie and slanket for the precious piece of pulsating plastic that once saved her life. ETYMOLOGY: buzz (to call) + -terbation (well, I'm a little embarrassed to say) CREATED BY: thegoatisbad. help@verbotomy.com (thegoatisbad) Mon, 8 Mar 2010 10:08:15 EST http://www.verbotomy.com/verboticism.php?vid=19686 http://www.verbotomy.com/verboticism.php?vid=19685 Blackberring: /black-bear-ring/ SENTENCE:.My blackberry gets blackburied in my purse so I have to blackberring it to find it. ETYMOLOGY: blackberry: smart phone + ring: phone sound CREATED BY: mrskellyscl. help@verbotomy.com (mrskellyscl) Mon, 8 Mar 2010 6:49:39 EST http://www.verbotomy.com/verboticism.php?vid=19685 http://www.verbotomy.com/verboticism.php?vid=19684 Clutterring: /klətərring/ SENTENCE:.Charley is quite poor at keeping track of things. He never sets things down in the same place twice. Things end up in the strangest places. He is still trying to figure out how one of his socks ended up in a mayonnaise jar in the fridge, but that*s a different story. His current challenge is to not loose his company-issued Blackberry. He has tried several unique techniques. First there was the gecko location which involved rubber-banding the phone to his pet lizard. FAIL! Mr. Green Britches just shed a tail and went off to sell insurance. Then he tried the string theory. He tied a string around his finger and one around the phone with the thought that like things attract. FAIL! He attached a cookie with a thought that somehow his computer would help him. FAIL! Following the ants only worked for a short time. Finally he has a method that works, clutterring. He bought a tiny, cheap cell that he keeps on a cord around his neck and calls the Blackberry when he needs it. If it is dark, the light on the phone acts like one of those **as seen on TV** specials, the Clapper.(clapperring) ETYMOLOGY: clutter (a collection of things lying about in an untidy mass) + ring (of a telephone; produce a series of resonant or vibrating sounds to signal an incoming call) CREATED BY: artr. help@verbotomy.com (artr) Mon, 8 Mar 2010 4:26:53 EST http://www.verbotomy.com/verboticism.php?vid=19684 http://www.verbotomy.com/verboticism.php?vid=19683 Lostandphoned: /lost and foned/ SENTENCE:.Stanley's swinging bachelor pad was always such a mess that he usually misplaced his cell phone. The only way he could ever find it was to call it from the land phone and trace it. He called it the lostandphoned method. Too bad they had not yet invented a similar idea for missing eyeglasses...like if you made a spectacle of yourself, they would come into sight. Maybe if Stanley cleaned his place he wouldn't always lose his stuff! ETYMOLOGY: Play on Lost & Found (A repository in a public place, as in a school or theater, where found items are kept for reclaiming by their owners.) & Phoned (called on the telephone) CREATED BY: Nosila. help@verbotomy.com (Nosila) Mon, 8 Mar 2010 12:34:11 EST http://www.verbotomy.com/verboticism.php?vid=19683