self-sexile

1) Leaving one's domicile to avoid roommates when interacting with a significant other

2) Being sexiled of one's own volition

1) Cornelius and his boyfriend frequently went into self-sexile to avoid homophobic housemates

2) Jeremy and Claire always got so loud their roommates had not choice but to self-sexile.

by PBMax September 28, 2008

vaporwagner

Music that is heavily hyped but delayed to the point you doubt it will ever be released. A combination of vaporware and 19th-century composer Wilhelm Richard Wagner.

Lil Wayne has a history of vaporwagner projects, so it was somewhat surprising that "Tha Carter III" actually came out.

by PBMax June 18, 2008

Metattle

Someone who reveals that someone else has revealed something. From the Greek meta meaning "after" and the Middle English tattle meaning "tattle."

Vanity Fair metattled on W. Mark Felt's involvement in the Watergate scandal by outing him as "Deep Throat."

by PBMax November 04, 2007

Pathection

The purest, Plantonic manifestation of being pathetic.

Douglas achieved pathection by choosing to "Reply-All" because he didn't realize most of the recipients wouldn't care about him.

by PBMax April 17, 2008

Whoristorian

People who can remember almost every guy/girl their friends have hooked up with, how they met, where they were, what nickname they gave the guy/girl and why they were dubbed said nickname. Portmanteau of whore and historian.

Ellie was so adept at recalling her friends' hookups that they dubbed her a "whoristorian."

by PBMax March 13, 2009

mockward

1) Making a situation more awkward by mocking how awkward it is. The situation need not be awkward in the first place.

Apparently coined by Washington Post columnist Monica Hesse.

2) Mocking someone in an awkward — and thereby probably unsuccessful — manner.

Apparently coined by then-Columbia Journalism Review assistant editor Megan Garber.

Someone asked to define the word "awkward" will often resort to describing the task as "awkward," which is just mockward. When someone does the same with "mockward," it's meta-mockward.

by PBMax May 11, 2008

memelitism

Disliking a meme because of other people liking it. This may be due to the quantity of others passing the idea along, or because the undesirable nature of the communities receiving it. A combination of "meme" and "elitist."

Sikander's memelitism kept him from reading danah boyd's blog once it was referenced in 'Newsweek.'

by PBMax January 05, 2009