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'Thank goodness these things are biodegradable!'

DEFINITION: n. A "natural process" which, smokers believe, makes cigarette butts magically disappear. v. To clean up someone else's butts.

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Cigracadabra

Created by: artr

Pronunciation: sigrəkədabrə

Sentence: Too many smokers think that some sort of cigracadabra happens when they toss their spent butts to the ground.

Etymology: cigarette (a thin cylinder of finely cut tobacco rolled in paper for smoking) + abracadabra (a word said by magicians when performing a magic trick)

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Erastub

Created by: allwise

Pronunciation: era/stub

Sentence: John was a smoker, and left his stubs all over the flat. Unfortunately, since the erastub hadn't kicked in yet, he had to clean the floor himself!

Etymology: erase + stub

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Tobaccorrosion

Created by: Discoveria

Pronunciation: Toe-back-co-roe-shun

Sentence: Benson said, "Duh! Everyone knows that cigarette ends tobaccorrode into natural substances. That's why the streets are so clean."

Etymology: Tobacco+corrosion. Tobacco: substance used to make cigarettes. Corrosion: dissolution by acid/alkali

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COMMENTS:

American spelling (perhaps more elegant) would be "tobaccorosion". I'd like to acknowledge ErWenn's "fagrosion" etymology which suggested this to me. - Discoveria, 2007-01-25: 09:16:00

Thanks. You got my vote. - ErWenn, 2007-01-26: 00:45:00

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Buttodegration

Created by: toadstool57

Pronunciation: butt-O-dE-grAde-tion

Sentence: Jill relies on natures buttodegradetion to take care of her ciggarette butt as she tosses it on the floor and then begins to do her dance on it.

Etymology: butt/biodegrade/degrade

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COMMENTS:

- toadstool57, 2007-01-25: 08:22:00

The spelling should be buttodegradetion. I can't seem to change it - toadstool57, 2007-01-25: 08:24:00

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Buttsablivious

Created by: lebeast

Pronunciation: butts - ah - bliv- ee- us

Sentence: After the roof top perch caught on fire from her buttsablivious way of thinking, she wondered who would have done such a thing.

Etymology: butts + oblivious

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Smotheritigration

Created by: protothor

Pronunciation: smuh-thur-it-uh-gray-shun

Sentence: Lucky that cigarette butts smotheritagrate , or else we might be polluting the environment. =o

Etymology: Smother it; a semi-common command directed at smokers who recently dropped their cigarette butts on the ground. igration; coming from 'desinigration', or the natural process by which things decay.

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