Twinjury
n.— «On May 29th, James Coleman of Bristol smacked his skull on a tree branch while filing updates to the Twitter service (or tweeting) from his Blackberry during a run. His accident spawned a new word: a “Twinjury.”» —“Rethinking rights, accreditation, and journalism itself in the age of Twitter” Reuters Editors June 24, 2009. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
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