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.
VERBOTICISMS: (Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers)
Calltrawl: /kawl trawl/ When Fred’s room got so messy that he’d lose his cellphone, he made a calltrawl from his landline to find it. Etymology: Call (a telephone connection) & Trawl (to fish for something;search) Created by: Nosila.
Hideandgobeep: /hahyd-n-goh-beep/ Jerry is one of the few people under 30 who still has a land-line phone. He never calls anybody on it. None of his friends even know the number. He only uses it when he plays hideandgobeep to locate the cell phone he misplaces at least three times a day. Etymology: hide-and-go-seek (one of a variety of children’s games in which, according to specified rules, one player gives the others a chance to hide and then attempts to find them) + beep (a short, relatively high-pitched tone produced by a horn or electronic device) Created by: artr.
Walkawave: // Etymology: Created by: walkawave.
Cellocator: /SEL-oh-cayt-ehr/ Brad was forever misplacing his cell phone or having it hidden under a pile of clothing or other items and he had become fairly adept with his cellocator method which consisted of calling his cell from another phone, hoping to hear it ringing. Etymology: Blend of ‘cell’ (cell phone) and ‘locator’ (a device for finding something) Created by: Mustang.
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