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Made Up Words and Fictitional Inventions
 
Made Up Words
Adamantium is the strongest metal in the Marvel Comic Book Universe
Assassinate - by William Shakespeare
Borked - To be treated as Judge Robert Bork, to relentlessly badger someone about reletively benign, small details.
Brave New World - by William Shakespeare
Bumped - by William Shakespeare
Carbonite -
Cromulent - the Simpsons - meaning totally acceptable. "It is perfectly cromulent to use embiggens in a sentence".
Dilithium Crystals are used to power starships in the Star Trek Universe
Embiggens - the Simpsons - meaning to make larger. "I can embiggen this sentence by adding a big, cromulent word to make it larger".
Flux Capacitor - The device used by Doctor Emmett Brown, requiring 1.21 gigwatts of power, to travel through time.
Force, the - the energy created by all living things, that surrounds and penetrates living beings and binds the galaxy together.
Foul Play - by William Shakespeare
Google, Googled, Googling (II) - one of the newest words to come about, meaning "searched or searching on the internet".
Googling - Mark Twain - oozing out. As he said "...like a jug that's googling out buttermilk"
Infinite Improbability Drive is the mechanism that allows
Kwyjibo - the Simpsons - Bart Simpson's Scrabble word
Leftorium - the Simpsons - Ned Flanders ' store featuring items for left-handed people
Neuralizer - the hand-held flashing device that makes people forget things.
Normalcy - President Warren G. Harding
Obscene - by William Shakespeare
Orgasmatron - from Woody Allen's SLEEPER. A sex machine
Oscillation Overthruster - Buckaroo Bonzai's electronic device that makes it possible to travel through matter
Nazi - Created as a shortened term for the National Socialist German Workers Party and used mostly by opponents. Party members referred to the ideology as National Socialism.
Pandemonium - John Milton, in Paradise Lost
Pompitous - "the pompitous of love" lyric is often credited as coming from Steve Miller's song, The Joker. Many people don't know that it was first used by The Medallions' 1954 R&B almost-hit The Letter.
Positronic Brain -
Pragmatism - C. S. Pierce(1875)
pwned - common typo for "owned", meaning someone or something beat the person "pwnd"
Red Shirt (redshirt) - doomed person, From Star Trek - the guy wearing the red shirt would be killed.
Robby the Robot starred in films such as Forbidden Plant and televion's The Addams Family
Robot B9 - the official name for the robot on Lost In Space
Squish - Mark Twain To Squash something down.
Stargate -
To Swift Boat - To be thrown out of the public eye by another event like John Kerry was by the Swift Boat incident during the 2004 presidential election.
Tardis (T.A.R.D.I.S) - Time And Relative Dimentions In Space: the time-machine and spacecraft from the series Dr. Who.
Three Laws of Robotics - written by Isaac Asimov
1. A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.
2. A robot must obey orders given to it by human beings, except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.
3. A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.
Transparent Aluminium - first mentioned in the film Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986).
Transporter -
Tricorder -
Tycho is the crater on the Moon, named after 16th century Danish astronomer, Tycho Brahe where the monolith was found in 2001: A Space Odyssey.
Utopia - Sir Thomas More
Vandellas - The background singers for Motown singer Martha Reeves.
Wendy - J.M. Barrie invented this word for the heroine of his story, Peter Pan.
Xerox - Once the world's largest "copier" company, they lost the rights to their trademarked name, XEROX, and became generic. Google may want to watch out.
Zany - by William Shakespeare


 
 
 

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