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What does phub mean?

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Verb
  1. (transitive, neologism) To ignore the conversation around one by focussing on one's smartphone.
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Phub and Jigme carried John to camp the next morning, where we had a scheduled rest day.
A thumb rule of human interaction is to give the person you're with enough attention, and not phub them.
If you're a kid and your parents phub you, call them out on it, as when it comes to acknowledging their smartphone addictions, parents are the worst.
Roberts first coined the term phub to describe the action of a person choosing to engage with their phone instead of engaging with another person.
Some people phub during philosophical debates because they'd rather talk pop culture than Plato.
The top Geelong school today launched it's first phub free Friday, encouraging students to put down their phones during recess and lunch breaks in a bid to fight "phubbing".

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