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DEFINITION: v. To feel stressed and anxious and when your mobile phone runs out of battery power, drops its network connection, or in the worst case, gets misplaced and lost. n. A panic attack caused by an interruption in your mobile phone service.
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Nophonobia
Created by: diyan627
Pronunciation: no-fn-obia the accent is on OBIA. fn is barely pronounced
Sentence: Despite Lana's nophonobia, ironically, she's always one to lose her phone or accidentally destroy it in odd ways like when she dropped it in her water at Pei Wei as she passed it to Zack.
Etymology: no + phone + phobia (an intense, abnormal, or illogical fear of a specified thing)
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COMMENTS:
Great word! - Mustang, 2008-04-03: 18:59:00
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Distelephobia
Created by: lauram22
Pronunciation: dis-tell-eh-fo-b-ia
Sentence: Jenny was overcome with distelephobia when she couldn't find her cell phone
Etymology: dis- lost tele- phone phobia- fear of
Phonecrashing
Created by: Suzanne112
Pronunciation:
Sentence: Your phone doesn't work, you can't help it. Your phone crashes, and you.
Etymology:
Motorolapse
Created by: bookowl
Pronunciation: motor/olapse
Sentence: He had a motorolapse and could only be revived by loud ringtones.
Etymology: motorola + lapse
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COMMENTS:
Great word! - purpleartichokes, 2008-04-03: 18:46:00
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Ademophobia
Created by: Haydon
Pronunciation: A, Dem O, Phopia
Sentence: The fear of losing conention of others.
Etymology: A- without demo- people phobia- fear
Cellohpain
Created by: purpleartichokes
Pronunciation: sell-oh-pane
Sentence: Passing through the cellyouvoid tunnel, Sue's cellohpain was plainly written on the furrowed lines of her face.
Etymology: cell (phone), oh, pain
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COMMENTS:
funny - Jabberwocky, 2008-04-03: 13:01:00
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Cellyell
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: sel yel
Sentence: Pansy would always have a cellyell when the train went into the tunnel and suspended her connection.
Etymology: Cell (cellular phone) & Yell (shout,cry)
Nosigphobia
Created by: ErikLarson
Pronunciation: NO-sig-FObia
Sentence: I suffer from a very serious case of Nosigphobia.
Etymology: No- None Sig- Signal Phobia- Fear of
Ultracelloc
Created by: EBalser
Pronunciation: Ultra-sell-lock
Sentence: I was ultracelloc when i lost service while driving to school.
Etymology: ultra-extreme cell-cell phone loc-place A place of extreme cell phone stress.
Blackedoutberry
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: blakd owt berree
Sentence: SONYa Ericsson went into Blackedoutberry mode, when her communicator failed to connect with the Mother ship. In her Qwest for an I-mate, she had gotten out of the Rover, and in one Cingular move had stepped on something Sharp, fell on her Acer, got a Gigabyte on her Vertu and did a Handspring back onto her Mitsubishi spacecraft, just before she ran out of O2. Over the Verizon, she spied a Cricket on a Palm and Samsung the praises of a Nokia No Kiss, NoTel policy before she Motorola'd back to Earth. When she landed safely in the Pacific, all the Siemens gave her a Boost Mobile, so she is now no longer a Virgin Mobile. Wit-DaeWoo! Wit-Daewoo!
Etymology: Blackberry ( a wireless handheld device which supports push email, web browsing, internet faxing, instant messaging, text messaging and other communication services.) & Blacked Out (a momentary loss of consciousness ;the failure of electric power for a general region;darkness resulting from the extinction of lights (as in a city invisible to enemy aircraft);a suspension of radio or tv broadcasting ;partial or total loss of memory)
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COMMENTS:
Wonder if you couldn't make a great pie from blackedout berries. - Mustang, 2009-05-22: 01:15:00
excellent - Jabberwocky, 2009-05-22: 13:08:00
clever! - splendiction, 2009-05-22: 21:56:00
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Comments:
stache - 2008-04-03: 01:35:00
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stache - 2008-04-03: 01:37:00
to whom is credit for the definition owed, james?
Ah... Actually I made it up! Cheers ~ James
stache - 2008-04-03: 18:47:00
way to go.
holy smokes, half the universe gave a verboticism