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DEFINITION: v. To exclusively use credit cards, debit cards and/or electronic banking in order to avoid using, or even touching, old fashioned cash. n. A person who never pays for anything using real money.
Verboticisms
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Cardiologicist
Created by: Stevenson0
Pronunciation: car/dio/loj/i/sist
Sentence: Steve knew in his heart and in his mind that credit was the most logical way to do business. He was a cardiologicist.
Etymology: card + logicist + cardiologist
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COMMENTS:
Super clever sentence and word - silveryaspen, 2009-03-13: 10:09:00
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Eragan
Created by: readerwriter
Pronunciation: air-a-gan
Sentence: Started off as ERAGONE, as I thought Reagan was spelled Reagon...after realizing I was wrong, I switched to ERAGAN, a pitiful substitute...How about ERAGAN, the combination Debit and Scratch N Sniff card offered by First Polymer Bank?
Etymology: A poor acronym for REAGAN, the President of the US, who arrived in DC for his first term in 1980 and was reported to have said, when asked for cash instead of plastic, "I haven't used cash for years."
Plasdeceptikon
Created by: kalex
Pronunciation: Plas-dee-sep-tick-awn
Sentence: Soon enough there will be plasdeceptikons who have never even seen money. With the end of paper money, plasdeceptikons will rule the world! Ah-ha ha ha ha!(sinister laugh)
Etymology: Taken from words of the future
Creditz
Created by: karenanne
Pronunciation: KREH dits
Sentence: Merry Spinder loves to buy everything on credit and has developed an elaborate system of rationalization for this habit. She is such a creditz that she reasons that she is actually making money doing this, because while the credit card company charges 8% interest on what she owes, the money that's sitting in her mutual fund earning interest is supposedly making more than that. Except she forgot that the stock market hasn't been doing too well lately, and, oh yeah, paying $39 late fees isn't helping her "make money" either. This is the same woman who in college thought that if she still had checks in her checkbook, that meant there was still money in the account!
Etymology: credit + ditz
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COMMENTS:
Sadly, she ain't the only creditz around... - Nosila, 2010-09-24: 23:55:00
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Spendshift
Created by: Mustang
Pronunciation: SPEND-shift
Sentence: Virgil's wife, Mabel, loved to tell her friends that he had become a devoted spendshift, having arranged to have both their paychecks deposited directly to their banking accounts, doing all his bill paying on line and making all purchases with credit or debit cards, thereby avoiding any contact with actual cash which he considered to be antiquated and beneath him.
Etymology: Blend of 'spend' (expend funds) and 'shift' (transfer or move to another place), a play on the word spendthrift.
Credaconst
Created by: kairi988
Pronunciation: Cred-a-const
Sentence: My mother's friend is a credeaconst...
Etymology: Someone that never uses cash.
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COMMENTS:
Idk... - kairi988, 2009-03-16: 13:42:00
oh nvr mind.. - kairi988, 2009-03-16: 13:43:00
Welcome. This was a good start! - silveryaspen, 2009-03-18: 12:35:00
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Visaonary
Created by: Jabberwocky
Pronunciation: Vee/za/on/ar/ee
Sentence: Sam was considered a visaonary who heralded a world full of plastic and credit.
Etymology: Visa + visionary
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COMMENTS:
master(ard)ful! - galwaywegian, 2009-03-13: 08:15:00
love the implied 'now you see it, now you don't' by incorporating visionary in your etymology. Excellent create. - silveryaspen, 2009-03-13: 09:52:00
Brief, concise and to the point. Excellent word. - Mustang, 2009-03-14: 00:36:00
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Sleasypay
Created by: splendiction
Pronunciation: sleez e pay
Sentence: Sal was warned not to put her sleasypay tab on her keychain. Well, sure enough, Sal lost her fourth set of keys along with her sleasy pay tab! She was responsible for any and all purchases made with the sleasy tab even if she reported it left her own hands! (Not to mention her car could be driven by anyone!) The sleasy tab was all too easy! Sal worried her credit and bank cards could be used the same way... but she still wouldn’t give them up! They were so easy!
Etymology: From sleazy (contemptible) and easypay, a form of plastic payment. It means: a disreputable form of payment.
Ecashified
Created by: rombus
Pronunciation: eee cash if ide
Sentence: Dorothy had recently become ecashified. If she could not use her computer to pay for it, she did not buy it.
Etymology: e(electronic) and cash and suffix (fied) Also play on word classified
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COMMENTS:
Good word! more people need to be Ecashified so they do not spend unwisely :) - abrakadeborah, 2009-03-14: 19:11:00
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Comments:
Today's definition was suggested by silveryaspen. Thank you silveryaspen. ~ James
Today's definition was suggested by silveryaspen. Thank you silveryaspen. ~ James