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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.
Verboticisms
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Phonecrashing
Created by: Suzanne112
Pronunciation:
Sentence: Your phone doesn't work, you can't help it. Your phone crashes, and you.
Etymology:
Cellabreak
Created by: torontorc
Pronunciation: sell-a-break
Sentence: I was talking to my mom when all of a sudden for no flippin' reason, I had a cellabreak and she was gone.
Etymology:
Hysterimissedcall
Created by: Jabberwocky
Pronunciation: hiss/ter/i/mist/call
Sentence: Sally became hysterimissedcall when her cell phone broke down just as she was about to accept a once in a lifetime job offer.
Etymology: hysteria + missed call + hysterical
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COMMENTS:
Good one...nightmare scenario. Don't you think they should call it histeria when it's a guy and hersteria when it happens to a girl??? - Nosila, 2009-05-22: 12:00:00
clever! - libertybelle, 2009-05-22: 14:24:00
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Tunnaphobia
Created by: sammyclark
Pronunciation: tun-ah-fo-bee-ah
Sentence: to feel distressed and panicy about losing cell phone reception in a tunnel
Etymology:
Cellomanic
Created by: Cilly
Pronunciation: sel-o-MA-nic
Sentence: Woah. That chick's lookin' really cellomanic. Hopefully it won't be too long 'til we're outta here or she's gonna need help.
Etymology: [self explanatory]
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COMMENTS:
Very good! - Mustang, 2008-04-03: 19:01:00
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Excommunicapitation
Created by: arrrteest
Pronunciation: ex-com-yoon-ih-cap-ih-tay-shun
Sentence: Marian was generally a laid back person that showed little worry or frustration with life's daily problems. However all bets were off if she was deprived of her cell phone's signal strength. She regularly calmed any anxiety by calling or texting her friends and family and was perfectly content -- as long as there was enough signal strength for the phone. This calmness was not the case when she had to enter a new building where she had not cased out before and didn't know where any dead spots were. She was a nervous wreck if she had to leave her suburban sprawl neighborhood for the big city -- what if there was a tunnel she had to go in without service, what if the tall buildings blocked a signal? Camping? Forget it. Too remote. She suffered from intense fear of excommunicaptiation.
Etymology: ex, no longer + communi, communication + cap, head + ation, state of being
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
Anite
Created by: Mclovin
Pronunciation: an.iht.
Sentence: i have anite. :)
Etymology: an-without ite-one connection too.
Cellphonia
Created by: Mustang
Pronunciation: sell - FONE - ya
Sentence: The thought of not having contact with the 'outside' world for even a minute or two would cause Daphne to have fits of cellphonia bordering on outright hysteria.
Etymology: Blend of cell phone with phobia OR paranoia.
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COMMENTS:
And, dyspnonia, which is Diane Rehm's affliction. - stache, 2008-04-03: 18:48:00
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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)
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