" phoning "

 [ "phoning" ]

1: A social phenomena occurring when a group of two or more people, who should be socializing, are all on their phones resulting in a momentary or prolonged silence.

  * e.g.,  ... I should be talking to my girlfriend over dinner, but instead she is instagramming on her iphone and i am defining "phoning" on urbandictionary.com. What a date. #phoning #2016 When the conversation slowed to a lull, we started phoning and pretended like we didn't know each other. When I looked up from sending a text I realized all 7 of us were phoning and no one was talking. "Look at that couple phoning over there. I wonder if they are sexting each other." 

 [ "phoning" ]

1: Using the numbers on phones to decode curse words

  * e.g.,  ... I'm gonna 2-8-6 all over your face! That's right, I'm gonna 2-8-6 all over your face! 

 [ "phoning" ]

2: Ex: 286 = cum

 [ "phoning" ]

1: boning on the phone

  * e.g.,  ... Hey baby hey, you cool with phoning later? If not I'll prob just call your friend Becky. 

 [ "phoning" ]

1: What happens when you're stapling something and the staple doesn't completely penetrate to the other side of the document, resulting in a staple that has ends bent looking like a wired phone.

  * e.g.,  ... Loretta, could I get a better stapler please? This one keeps phoning on me! 

 [ "phone" ]

1: A piece of glass stuck to plastic that takes up time and dies everyday but comes back to life after being plugged into an outlet.

  * e.g.,  ... This fucking phone is coming back to life!!! 

 [ "phone it in" ]

1: Perform an act in a perfunctory, uncommitted fashion, as if it didn't matter.

  * e.g.,  ... She sang the National Anthem, but she was just phoning it in as far as I could tell. 

 [ "phoned it in" ]

1: Being generally lazy with a task. Doing it half-assed instead of with your full ass.

  * e.g.,  ... Guy 1: Did you watch the last season of the O.C.? 

 [ "Phoned it in" ]

1: (verb) to have completed an action, especially giving a performance, while showing a minimum of effort.

  * e.g.,  ... "Her song and dance routine at the music awards was horrible! She looked out of shape, she forgot half the words... she basically just phoned it in." 

 [ "Phoned it in" ]

2: Generally used to refer to performances that border on unprofessional. The intended audience would have been similarly disappointed if the person had delivered the performance by speakerphone, in order to spend more time on leisurely pursuits.

 [ "Phone" ]

1: A device that was originally created for contacting someone over long distances without much effort.

  * e.g.,  ... I got this new phone and could not figure out how to make a call on it. I could, however, summon a giant robot and arm a nuke fairly easily. 

 [ "Phone" ]

2: Today, there are many variations of the phone but most of them do every stupid thing that you don't need it to do. Because of this, the corporations jack the price up to inhumane levels.

 [ "Phone" ]

3: It's still possible to get a normal phone which does what it was originally intended to do but if you have one your friends will make fun of you.

 [ "phone" ]

1: that annoying thing that wakes u up in the middle of the night just because ur idiot friend broke up with her loser boyfriend.

  * e.g.,  ... i hate my phone i hate my phone i hate my phone!