{"id":1663,"date":"2013-03-11T12:04:10","date_gmt":"2013-03-11T16:04:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/?p=1663"},"modified":"2013-03-11T12:04:10","modified_gmt":"2013-03-11T16:04:10","slug":"coparanoia-omigod-im-surrounded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/?p=1663","title":{"rendered":"Coparanoia: Omigod, I&#8217;m surrounded."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>DEFINITION:<\/strong> <em>n.<\/em> The weird feelings that rise up when you notice that you are being followed by a police officer, or a cop car, or the Special Forces Anti-Terrorist Unit. <em>v.<\/em> To feel nervous, self-conscious and guilty whenever you see a police officer.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/jimage400\/police.gif\" alt=\"Omigod, I'm surrounded.\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>VERBOTICISMS:<\/strong> <em>(Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Coparanoia<\/strong>:  \/<em>cop-air-uh-NOYa<\/em>\/ Whenever Lucy noticed that any sort of law officer appeared to be looking in her direction she suffered seizures of coparanoia fearful that they had likely learned about the many minor infractions she&#8217;d committed over the last couple years. <em>Etymology:<\/em>  Blend of &#8216;cop&#8217; (police officer) and &#8216;paranoia&#8217;  (a psychosis characterized by systematized delusions of persecution&#8217; <em>Created by:<\/em> Mustang.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Constabullied<\/strong>:  \/<em>kon sta bull eed<\/em>\/ When Constance saw more than one police officer near her work, home, garage or gym, she felt constabullied, even though she was not breaking the law (on purpose. <em>Etymology:<\/em>  Constable (police officer) &amp; Bullied (forced, coerced into doing something against one&#8217;s will) <em>Created by:<\/em> Nosila.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Narcojitters<\/strong>:  \/<em>nahrk-o-jit-erz<\/em>\/ Some twenty years ago, in college Marcia was at a party where somebody was smoking something that didn&#8217;t smell like cigarettes. To this day she gets the narcojitters whenever she sees a vehicle that she thinks might be an unmarked police car. <em>Etymology:<\/em>  narc (a government agent or detective charged with the enforcement of laws restricting the use of narcotics) + jitters (nervousness; a feeling of fright or uneasiness) <em>Created by:<\/em> artr.<\/p>\n<p>To see more verboticisms for this definition go to:<br \/> <br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/verboticisms.php?jid=police\">https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/verboticisms.php?jid=police<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Be Creative, <\/p>\n<p>James<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\">www.verbotomy.com<\/a><br \/>\nthe create-a-word game<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DEFINITION: n. The weird feelings that rise up when you notice that you are being followed by a police officer, or a cop car, or the Special Forces Anti-Terrorist Unit. v. To feel nervous, self-conscious and guilty whenever you see a police officer. VERBOTICISMS: (Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers) Coparanoia: \/cop-air-uh-NOYa\/ Whenever Lucy &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/?p=1663\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Coparanoia: Omigod, I&#8217;m surrounded.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[90,83,82,93,84,89,27],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1663"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1663\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}