Verboticism: Escalapse

'What was I looking for?'

DEFINITION: To be so distracted by the fact that you can't find something, that you forget what you were looking for.

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Escalapse

Created by: ScrabbledEgg

Pronunciation: es-kuh-laps

Sentence: He couldn't remember where he set his cellphone, and it just escalapsed from there. Now he's just standing there, gazing into the refrigerator, hoping it has what he needs.

Etymology: escalate (to increase in magnitude, intensity, amount...) + lapse, as in "a lapse of memory"

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