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phonecuffing 

When somebody calls you when you're about to start something, in the middle of something, or just want to be left alone. The caller just won't let you go and just keeps on talking and talking and talking and talking and talking. The caller might talk about subjects that you don't know anything about and/or have absolutely no interest in, and just when it seems like he or she is about to let you go, he or she jumps on to a whole new subject. You can be stuck in this situation for hours.
phone rings

VICTIM: Hello?
PHONECUFFER: Hey, there's this one really weird question on the physics homework
VICTIM: Okay, let's see…

10 minutes later

PHONECUFFER: Yeah, thanks man.
VICTIM: No problem.
PHONECUFFER: By the way, did you hear about that idiot?
VICTIM: Oh yeah!

16 minutes later

PHONECUFFER: But then I realized that 5 Hour Energy is better than Vault.
VICTIM: That's cool, but I've got this paper that's due in 72 hours.
PHONECUFFER: I see.

27 minutes later

PHONECUFFER: And so I dug it up on YouTube last night and I thought it was mediocre.
VICTIM: Yeah…
PHONECUFFER: I mean people think he's an idiot…
VICTIM: Un-huh…
PHONECUFFER: But really he can be hilarious, like when…
VICTIM: (thinks "I have a paper to work on and he's talking about the crappiest move that was ever made.")

38 minutes later

PHONECUFFER: But then I realized that if you stand eight feet away, you get the most accuracy.
VICTIM: That's cool, but I really need to work on that paper.

22 minutes later

PHONECUFFER: So he just stared off into space and was like "Whoa!".
VICTIM: (monotone) That's weird. (thinks "I've told him about the paper six times and he's still phonecuffing me!")

Phonebuster 

A person or thing the bust up phones
Get away from phonebuster she will bust your phone up

Phoneburnia 

The most kickass building server on Half-Life 2: Deathmatch.
Hey, have you been on Phoneburnia lately?
Phoneburnia by physics October 7, 2007

Phonecuffed 

A metaphor that describes the physical appearance of being handcuffed by holding ones cell phone in both hands. The result of overuse of ones cell phone causing one to appear to be handcuffed without wearing handcuffs but physically restricted as if they were actually wearing handcuffs.
My son spent all day phonecuffed and now he is behind on his chores.
Phonecuffed by art4darkART4DARK March 7, 2017

phoneturbator 

Those who get off playing with their cell phone or PDA in public. Rather than interact socially, they regularly excite themselves by fondling the free apps they can download to their iPhone.
Mitch: What's Lance doing at the end of the table?

Uncle Tony: Didn't you know? Lance is a phoneturbator. He has his guilty pleasures when it comes to free iPhone apps. Ever since yesterday he's become comfortable with who he is and phoneturbates whenever he gets a chance.
phoneturbator by eskeymo January 14, 2009

phonefuckery 

When your phone randomly and spontaneously loses signal repeatedly though not constantly in an area you know for a fact has ample coverage.
Sorry we got cut off, this area is complete phonefuckery.

The area around Forest Lawn and WB is total phonefuckery.
phonefuckery by KT Writer September 4, 2013
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Origin of the word is unknown. Started sometime in World War 2. Given the typical evolution of British slang, could easily have started because what these experts did was confusing or “baffling” to the common person.
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I saw Satantango last night, wonderful film but by the 5th hour I had to start doing pee calculus.
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"The girl is pretty but she corrupt and dutty!"

or, in a positive usage:

"Booya! That freestyle was dutty!"
Dutty by J Hall April 3, 2003
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Slop Grenade

When someone uses AI to generate a large document, slide deck, or piece of code/software and tosses it over the fence for you to deal with.
Chad: Hey Brent I sent you the new backend API change to review, it’s only 100 files changed.

Brent: he just tossed me a slop grenade
Slop Grenade by Joe Squid September 28, 2026
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After we broke up, he was floxi to me.
floxi by Dr. Geek May 13, 2009
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