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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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Disintokration

Created by: artr

Pronunciation: disintōkrāshən

Sentence: Just about every car sold in America is equipped with an ash tray. Many go unused because smokers believe in disintokration, that magic process by which their butts, wrappers and even packaging go up in smoke just like the cigs themselves. A quick flick of the wrist and all responsibility is done.

Etymology: disintegration (the process of coming to pieces) + toke (the drawing of a puff from a cigarette or pipe)

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COMMENTS:

Sadly, too true! Good Word. - Nosila, 2009-08-27: 15:21:00

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Tobaccgone

Created by: Nosila

Pronunciation: to bak gawn

Sentence: When Diane DuMaurier met Peter Jackson, it was love at first sight. Their first date was at a Matinee and afterwards they went to the Lucky Strike Bowling Alley. He puffed away, one cigarette after another and seemed to think all the butts would evaporate away in a tobaccgone process. When she realized he left a mess behind, she ran off with the Marlboro Man. Peter thought that took a lot of Gauloise to do such a thing. They were last seen trying to Export A Camel.

Etymology: Tobacco (leaves of the tobacco plant dried and prepared for smoking or ingestion) & Gone (having all been spent;away;former)

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Buttodegradable

Created by: mweinmann

Pronunciation: butt - oh - dee - graa - d - abel

Sentence: Melissa threws hundreds of butts a week on sidewalks, streets, curbs and driveways; all in the belief that they were buttodegradable. She did not think that she was contributing to the trash heap that is forming beneath and beside us.

Etymology: butt, biodegradable

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Stubrub

Created by: EonaFrae

Pronunciation: stub-rub

Sentence: As the only nonsmoker, George watched the stubrub process in awe, thinking to himself what little it did for the sidewalk.

Etymology: Stub [the final remnants of a smoked cigarette] + Rub [To remove by pressure and friction]

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COMMENTS:

:) - galwaywegian, 2011-01-15: 07:00:00

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Fagicide

Created by: Acostell

Pronunciation: fag-i-side

Sentence: Alright, well I'm done smoking this are you? (guy nods) alright let's commit some fagicide and get the hell outta here"

Etymology: Fag(british slang for cig)+ -icide (from latin -cidium "a killing")

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Debuttal

Created by: Mustang

Pronunciation: dee-but-al

Sentence: Clarence seemed to think his discarded smokes were magically absorbed by nature and was oblivious to the debuttal efforts of those around him.

Etymology: de: prefix meaning to remove or undo. butt: slang for cigarette al: suffix - having the properties or characteristics

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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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