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Broken Phone Syndrome 

also Post-Phonum Depression; a relentless slide into self-hatred triggered by the loss or breakage of a phone, laptop or other high-ticket item -- often electronics. Symptoms include feeling that you don't deserve nice things, guilt, unnecessary introspection, and a desire to purchase an OtterBox.
"Why is Rachel sobbing in the corner at a party?"
"She just dropped her iPhone on the floor and entered Broken Phone Syndrome. I'll book an Apple Store appointment, you go over there and tell her what a good person she is."

phone-broke 

To be at the level of poverty where one cannot afford to buy, keep, or maintain a cell phone.
A: What's your cell number?
B: I'm phone-broke, man. You'll have to call me on my land line.
phone-broke by Poruchan June 13, 2010

breatharian 

One whos diet consists of air, light, and prana, with a possible sip of water now and then.
The breatharian has air, light, and prana for food.
breatharian by leena gabor November 8, 2005
Word of the Day on June 3, 2026

A Booger In The Nose Of Progress 

Anything that impedes or otherwise interferes with a process going forward.
"Militarily, that inquest was a booger in the nose of progress."

or

"As far as human rights are concerned, this political infighting is a booger in the nose of progress."
Word of the Day on June 2, 2026

🤡🫵🏻

How to say "you're an idiot/clown" using only emojis.
Person 1: Insert completely incorrect and/or idiotic statement here
Person 2: 🤡🫵🏻
Word of the Day on June 1, 2026
Fogey/fogy /fougi/ sl. (early 18C+, orig. Scot) old-fashioned, stuck-in-the mud.
Person with old fashioned ideas which he is unwilling to change: Come to the disco and stop being such an old fogey!
You think me an old fogeyand an old tory, his thoughtful voice said. I saw three generations since O’Connel’s time. I remember the famine. Do you know that the orange lodges agitated for repeal of the union twenty years before O’Connel did or before the prelates of your communion denounced him as a demagogue? You fenians forget some things. (James Joyce, Ulysses. Penguin Books,1992. p. 38)
fogey by Petyush September 14, 2005
Word of the Day on May 31, 2026