DEFINITION: v. To pick up a piece of lint from the floor that your vacuum missed, and then drop it in front of the vacuum again, to give the vacuum another chance to suck it up. n. A piece of lint that a vacuum will not pick up.
VERBOTICISMS: (Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers)
Ifatfirstyoudontsuckseed: /iff aht furst ewe dohnt suk seeeeeed/ ifatfirstyoudontsuckseed, purrsevere Etymology: if at first you don’r succeed, suck Created by: galwaywegian.
Eurekagain: /yoÅrÄ“kÉ™gen/ Milly is one to give everybody a second chance. This even applies to dust bunnies. If her sad old vacuum isn’t able to pick up a lump of dust, she has been known to give them the Eurekagain treatment, running over and over these fuzzy little critters usually with less-than-wonderful results. She may even get down on her hands and knees to break up dustballs to make them easier to deal with. Etymology: eureka (A brand of vaccuum)(a cry of joy or satisfaction when one finds or discovers something) + again (another time; once more) Created by: artr.
Muffigan: /[muhFF-again]/ I had to turn up the setting on the vacuum because of a damn muffigan. Etymology: Created by: ballandcue.
Hoovermaneuver: /hoo ver man oo ver/ Al Capone was one nasty gangster who terrorized Chicago during Prohibition. Despite many arrests by the FBI, he always slithered out of their reach by having even more dishonest lawyers and buying out the police, judges and city officials. The FBI called in the Treasury and under Eliot Ness, Capone was eventually caught on tax evasion and sentenced to life. This hoovermaneuver sucked him out of mainstream, like a piece of lint into a giant canister until he died in prison of syphilis. Here endeth the lesson. Etymology: Hoover (vacuum cleaner brand;lawyer who director of the FBI for 48 years) Created by: Nosila.
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