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DEFINITION: v. To push a push-button that has just been pushed by someone else because you "need" to push it yourself; common at elevators, traffic lights, and family meetings. n. A person who "needs" to push their own buttons.
Verboticisms
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Monobmania
Created by: CharlieB
Pronunciation: mon-ob-main-ee-ah
Sentence: Jeff was so self absorbed he just didn't notice the three other people standing at the pedestrian crossing. This refusal to snap out of his tunnel vision and engage with the city in which he lived meant he was a total monobmaniac: see a knob and press it. His brother, on the other hand, suffered from compullsion - he couldn't stop himself opening doors for people.
Etymology: monomania (an obsessive interest in a single thing) + maniac (an overly enthusiastic person) + knob (a round projection on a surface & offensive slang term for an idiot)
Elevatorgasm
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: eləvātərgazəm
Sentence: It all started when, as a young girl, her father would allow her to push the button on the elevator at his office. She still gets a charge, an elevatorgasm, when she is able to push her own button.
Etymology: elevator (a platform or compartment housed in a shaft for raising and lowering people or things to different floors or levels) + orgasm (a climax of sexual excitement)
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COMMENTS:
lolol cracked me up!! - libertybelle, 2011-03-16: 08:47:00
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Prodominate
Created by: rebelvin
Pronunciation: PROD+dOMINATE
Sentence: We kept at it, each having to be the last one to push, cycling faster and faster in a mad frenzy for prodomination, not really wanting it to end as we responded to each other almost in synch, until finally we both just stood there looking at each other, exhausted, far past the time the elevator reached our floor -- I think I am in love.
Etymology: PROD+dOMINATE
Repressgallery
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: re press gall eree
Sentence: Simon's repressgallery button on his phone was working overtime...I mean if you pushed again, would something magically appear? Well, only if you are in a theatre or other place where contact was awkward! Right?
Etymology: repress: (put out of one's consciousness or to press again) & Press Gallery (an area (sometimes in a balcony) set aside for reporters (especially in a legislative hall)
Mindtwist
Created by: josje
Pronunciation: mind twist
Sentence: doing things you need to because you have got a mindtwist.
Etymology: twisted mind.
Repushify
Created by: collinwashere2
Pronunciation:
Sentence: Did you just repushify my button?
Etymology:
Buttonupmanship
Created by: OZZIEBOB
Pronunciation: buht'n-UHP-man-ship
Sentence: Bob wasn't a nice man; if he didn't get his own way, he would become pushy. Frequently he would be "pushing someones button," and if that didn't work he would "push their keys." Also he thought that he was a tough dude and joined "The Push," but they thought he was nothing more than a "push-fire" and a real "push-over." Even at lifts and traffic lights, he always tried his buttonupmanship, telling little old ladies to "button-up their lip." He had no success with the younger ladies also, when it came to "push-on-up." Seeking a free night's fun at someone else's expense, he thought he might push his luck with the ladies at a "pushing school" or a "buttonhole factory," but when it came to "push and shove," they stomped on his "button and bows" and told him to "push off" or he'd be "pushing clouds" sooner than he thought.
Etymology: BUTTON: n. any small knob or disk pressed to activate an electric circuit, release a spring, or otherwise operate or open a machine, small door, toy, etc. ONEUPMANSHIP n. the attitude or practice of trying to keep one step ahead of a friend or competitor;
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COMMENTS:
I like it. - lumina, 2008-06-19: 02:28:00
Funny, and very clever. - Mustang, 2008-06-19: 06:31:00
great word and sentence - Jabberwocky, 2008-06-19: 11:41:00
Bob, is his last name Pushkin by any chance? He'll be doing that till they put him in a push chair! - Nosila, 2008-06-19: 20:29:00
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Irresistibutton
Created by: Bulletchewer
Pronunciation: i-re-zist-i-butt-un
Sentence: Even though Johnny had pressed it, Charlie had to follow suit because the funky Flea-like riff noise the irresistibuttion made was bloomin' marvellous.
Etymology: Oooh, lemme think now, might be from "irresistible" meaning "chocolate" and "button" meaning "type of mushroom" but sources are tight-lipped.
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COMMENTS:
Before anyone whines about this not being a verb, erm, HUSH. - Bulletchewer, 2007-04-10: 07:47:00
Oooo, I'd love to push your verbutton by pointing out that "nougat" means irresistible, but I'll let it verbeeeee.... - purpleartichokes, 2007-04-10: 09:31:00
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Pressoccupied
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: presäkyəpīd
Sentence: Ever since she was little Tracy has been pressoccupied. Whenever she was in an elevator she wanted to be the one to press the button. Crossing a downtown street? **ME PUSH, ME PUSH!** It was so bad that she was banned from participating in the Take Your Child to Work program at the missle silo where her father works.
Etymology: press (move or cause to move into a position of contact with something by exerting continuous physical force) + preoccupation (a subject or matter that engrosses someone)
Buttonomy
Created by: lynne61
Pronunciation: butt-aw-no-me
Sentence: His buttonomy forced him into pushing the third floor button although it was still warm from the woman's touch.
Etymology: button and autonomy
Comments:
Today's definition was suggested by Osomatic.
Thank you Osomatic! ~ James
Mustang - 2008-06-19: 08:28:00
Being compushive isnt easy. It takes lots of energy and ingenuity.
Today's definition was suggested by Osomatic. Thank you Osomatic. ~ James