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DEFINITION: n. A "natural process" which, smokers believe, makes cigarette butts magically disappear. v. To clean up someone else's butts.
Verboticisms
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Cigarbage
Created by: jrogan
Pronunciation: see-gar-bage
Sentence: Jonathan inhaled deeply, while his girlfriend complained (again) about the cigarbage on their living floor. He dropped his cigarette to the floor and carefully stubbed it out. Then he turned to her letting out a puff of smoke, and said, "What garbage? I don't see garbage."
Etymology: cigar + garbage
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)
Fagistination
Created by: Maureen
Pronunciation: fag-is-ti-nay-shun
Sentence: Don't worry about finding a bin once you stub them out fagistination will take care of them.
Etymology: fag -colloq. cigarette. istine- from phillistine-someone lacking in refinement. ation- suffix for action or process.
Abracadabutt
Created by: Stevenson0
Pronunciation: ab/ruh/kuh/da/but
Sentence: After his last drag, he flicked his smoke, said abracadabutt and it was gone for good.
Etymology: abracadabra + butt
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COMMENTS:
very funny!!! - Jabberwocky, 2007-01-25: 09:09:00
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Combuttstion
Created by: petaj
Pronunciation: com-butt-styun
Sentence: When your discarded cigarette ends just suddenly burn themselves away to nothing -- that's called spontaneous combuttsion
Etymology: combustion (burn) + butt (cigarette end)
Cignorance
Created by: johnnyrockett
Pronunciation: sig-no-rinse
Sentence: His cignorance blocked the mess of butts that littered the floor of his car.
Etymology: Cigarette + ignorance
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COMMENTS:
Perhaps a better pronunciation guide would be 'sig-no-rinse' - protothor, 2007-01-25: 16:53:00
Thanks protothor... - johnnyrockett, 2007-01-25: 19:56:00
Hey johnny, Great word! There are a lot of cignorant people hanging around the front door of my office. - wordmeister, 2007-01-26: 07:19:00
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Marlburrow
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: marl bur roh
Sentence: when the smokers go to sleep, the marlburrow bunny comes out of his marlburrow with his little broom to brush the naughty little butts down to middle earth.
Etymology: marlboro burrow
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
Concigquence
Created by: Fenners
Pronunciation: con - sig - quence
Sentence: They just don't understand the concigquences
Etymology: consequence + cigarette
Biodegradabutt
Created by: Javeson1
Pronunciation: bah-yoh-dee-grayd-ah-but
Sentence: Contrary to popular belief, cig butts are most def NOT biodegradabutt.
Etymology: biodegradable + (cigarette) butt
