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: (Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers)
Cellcentered: /selsentər/ Joey is completely cellcentered. If his phone rings, he*s on it like a hawk on a mouse. It doesn*t matter what*s happening or who he*s with, the phone gets all his attention. It*s gotten to the point where his girlfriend called to break up with him despite the fact that they were in the same room. Of course she had to leave voicemail because he was already on a different call. Etymology: Cell (a telephone with access to a cellular radio system) + centered (in the center) A play on self-centered Created by: artr.
Comments on Cellcentered:
galwaywegian, 2009-10-22: 05:51:00
Nice oneNosila, 2009-10-23: 01:31:00
Joey will be cellibate now…
Cellout: /sel-lout/ Jim became a cellout to be more popular. Although his mother raised him to be polite and respectful, if one of the “plastics” called he would stop everything to answer his phone. He was so rude and irritating that even Mother Theresa would have slapped him upside the head. Etymology: Wordplay on sellout: one who turns his back on his principals or compromises integrity for personal advancement — cell: cellular phone + lout: rude, ill-mannered. (plastics – term used for the popular kids in the movie “Mean Girls”) Created by: mrskellyscl.
Comments on Cellout:
Nosila, 2009-10-23: 01:30:00
good one!
Nokiass: /no key ass/ She sighed as she watched him fumble through the sheets in search of his phone. This was the last straw. He may have been humg like a stallion, but he acted like a complete nokiass Etymology: nokia ass Created by: galwaywegian.
Comments on Nokiass:
artr, 2009-10-22: 06:23:00
Looks like he’ll have to resort to mastercallwaiting.
Callisinterruptus: /kawl is inter rup tus/ 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) Created by: Nosila.
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