DEFINITION: v. To be so immersed in a virtual world that you forget about your responsibilities to the physical world — like your job, your family, or even feeding and washing yourself. n. A person who lives exclusively in their imagination.
VERBOTICISMS: (Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers)
Oversimulated: /o-ver-sim-u-la-ted/ Ben could become oversimulated while going on virtual dates online. He would take his laptop into his room and shut the door for hours on end. Mother was happy because she didn’t have to worry about him running off with some hussy and Ben was happy because real girls were scarey. Etymology: stimulated: to excite functional activity (sexual or mental) + overstimulated: a trigger or event that causes hyperactivity or over-excitement in children or adults + simulated: virtual reality; a model meant to resemble a real situation Created by: mrskellyscl.
Comments on Oversimulated:
mweinmann, 2009-11-25: 08:30:00
good one Mrs. K.
Laptoplivion: /lap top liv ee an/ Megan Hertz lives her life in laptoplivion, totally removed from the realities of daily life. She lives in the fantasy realm of the Internet and loses herself there for hours, even days at a time. She neglects herself and subsides on a daily diet of bytes of Apple, cookies, nybbles, Spam, Mac & GEOS, washed down with Java and Port. Her poor diet is ruining her memory and if she does not watch it, she will end up with a deadly virus. Etymology: Laptop (a portable computer small enough to use in your lap) & Oblivion (the state of being disregarded or forgotten; total forgetfulness)
Created by: Nosila.
Laptrapped: /lap-trap-ed
/ Jenny was no different from many of her friends, laptrapped and totally emersed and esnared in her virtual world, fingers poised at her keyboard ready to discuss and solve all her friends’ problems.
Etymology: LAPTRAPPED – verb – from LAPTOP (a portable, battery-powered computer small enough to rest on the user’s lap) + TRAPPED (to ensnare, or capture and prevent from escaping, or getting free)
Created by: Stevenson0.
Comments on Laptrapped:
Nosila, 2009-11-24: 23:18:00
Lapracadabra
Microselfed: /my – kro – selfd/ Jed was a difficult person to carry on a conversation with. He was so microselfed that he only imagined himself. He felt only truly alive as an avatar and ceased to belive in real friends; only imaginary ones sufficed now. In those few minutes that he did “look up” from his laptop, all we saw was a blank stare and no recognition that he knew who we were either. Etymology: micro (microcomputer, Microsoft, self Created by: mweinmann.
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