Definitions
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- noun The act of
recombobulating ; putting back into order; removing confusion.
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Examples
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Most creative: recombobulation area: at Milwaukee's Mitchell Airport where passengers who "have just passed through security screening can get their clothes and belongings back in order."
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Most creative: recombobulation area: at Milwaukee's Mitchell Airport where passengers who "have just passed through security screening can get their clothes and belongings back in order."
Word of the Year 2009
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It's more than just the travel experience that leads to the need for a recombobulation space to recover from discombobulating occurrences.
Andy Stefanovich: In Business or Travel, Recombobulation's the Ticket Andy Stefanovich 2010
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The world of known uncertainties is what the recombobulation area is all about.
Andy Stefanovich: In Business or Travel, Recombobulation's the Ticket Andy Stefanovich 2010
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It's more than just the travel experience that leads to the need for a recombobulation space to recover from discombobulating occurrences.
Andy Stefanovich: In Business or Travel, Recombobulation's the Ticket Andy Stefanovich 2010
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The world of known uncertainties is what the recombobulation area is all about.
Andy Stefanovich: In Business or Travel, Recombobulation's the Ticket Andy Stefanovich 2010
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For those who haven't traveled through Mitchell Airport, they've named the area on the gate side of security the "recombobulation area."
Andy Stefanovich: In Business or Travel, Recombobulation's the Ticket Andy Stefanovich 2010
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Milwaukee's Mitchell Airport has the right idea with its "recombobulation area."
Andy Stefanovich: In Business or Travel, Recombobulation's the Ticket Andy Stefanovich 2010
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Milwaukee's Mitchell Airport has the right idea with its "recombobulation area."
Andy Stefanovich: In Business or Travel, Recombobulation's the Ticket Andy Stefanovich 2010
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For those who haven't traveled through Mitchell Airport, they've named the area on the gate side of security the "recombobulation area."
Andy Stefanovich: In Business or Travel, Recombobulation's the Ticket Andy Stefanovich 2010
bilby commented on the word recombobulation
Discombobulators of the world, unite.
November 28, 2008
john commented on the word recombobulation
1. Something being put back the way it was, or into proper working order
2. Gathering one's thoughts or composure
—Urban Dictionary
January 30, 2011
milosrdenstvi commented on the word recombobulation
Spotted this in the Milwaukee airport tonight -- a large sign designated a number of tables past the security scanners as the "Recombobulation Area". I wonder who the clever logophile was who coined this, and the significance of the tacit admission that the whole rigmarole of airport security is indeed discombobulating.
January 4, 2013
yarb commented on the word recombobulation
Now I want to visit the Milwaukee airport. Not Milwaukee, just the airport.
January 4, 2013
bilby commented on the word recombobulation
And such an official sign (see Visuals) too.
January 4, 2013
ruzuzu commented on the word recombobulation
Words that are more generic or abstract
embarrassment
January 4, 2013