televishun

A portmanteau of television and shun meaning a television program or channel a person is ignoring or is committed to not watching.

Do you watch America's Got Talent? No, it's on my televishun list.
Mike was addicted to news, then he decided to televishun all cable news networks.

by MikeInDC August 30, 2017

WiFry

An unexpected outage of a WiFi network, usually at a critical time.

“I can’t believe I was WiFried during my Instagram upload,” said Alon.

Julia was upset because of a WiFry while uploading an important job application.

by MikeInDC June 27, 2017

cable creep

The slow, monthly increase of cable television charges in amounts small enough for the customer to tend to ignore, but later result in significant overall increases.

A year ago, my cable bill was $88/month and now it's $117. I hate cable creep.

A few bucks in cable creep and now my bill is 30% higher than a year ago.

My monthly cable crept from $55 to $69 in less than one year.

by MikeInDC January 22, 2018

Litereally

Exactly. A replacement for the often erroneously used “literally.”

“I literally walked 8 miles to the supermarket,” said Shannyn.
"No, the supermarket is litereally less than a mile from here," replied Gregor.

by MikeInDC January 14, 2021

cinnraibae

Cinnamon raisin bagel

I’d like a cinnraibae with a shmear of cream cheese and a regular coffee, to go.

by MikeInDC February 15, 2021

twomorrows

The day after tomorrow.

Leo is excited because his birthday is twomorrows.
Rami and Joey are meeting via conference call twomorrows.
Twomorrows the new coffee shop is scheduled to open.

by MikeInDC July 28, 2020

Zoomergang

A group of friends or colleagues that meets regularly via Zoom.

Marge enjoys meeting up with her Zoomergang from from the neighborhood on Tuesday evenings.

At the weekly office Zoomergang meeting, Cathy laid out the media and marketing strategy.

by MikeInDC July 15, 2020