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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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Creddycad
Created by: fossean
Pronunciation: Credd-e-cad
Sentence: 'Who needs money?' thought Bob. 'I can just creddycad the landlord again.'
Etymology: Formed by contraction of credit, and cad (moral bankrupt).
Debtcardholder
Created by: kateinkorea
Pronunciation: DEBT card HOL der
Sentence: John had gone from debit and credit cardholder to debtcardholder over a few short months. It felt like extra money. He never used cash but he always carried some on him. He ate in restaurants...used his credit card...checked his wallet...still had cash. He bought gifts for his wife...used his credit card...checked his wallet...still had cash. He bought groceries...used his debit card...checked his wallet...still had cash. It was amazing how these magical cards had stretched his paycheck. But soon he was not allowed to use any of the cards anymore because they had all become debtcards. So now he had to get more of them to help him pay his payments on these ones.
Etymology: DEBIT CARD HOLDER: DEBT:
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COMMENTS:
Really good word Kateinkorea! "debtcardholder", makes logical sense to me! So many fools out there acquiring tons of debt and charging away instead using cash! - abrakadeborah, 2009-03-14: 19:17:00
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Buckstopper
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: buk stop per
Sentence: Let's be Franc...Mark had a Yen to use plastic. He liked it so much because he did not have to dirty his hands with cash. He would Peso himself spending by only charging items. He would not Baht an eye at high service fees and comPound interest rates. His friends called him Robert Dinero...
Etymology: Buck (dollar in slang) & Stopper (to no longer use or be part of)
Indebtermined
Created by: bookowl
Pronunciation: in/deh/ter/min/ed
Sentence: He was indebtermined to avoid paying cash.
Etymology: in debt + determined
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COMMENTS:
amazing how so many people are anxious to remain indebtermined! This one will pop out of my head everytime some one tells me about deeply indebtermined they are! - silveryaspen, 2009-03-13: 19:02:00
left a word out of the last line ... about how deeply indebtermined they are! - silveryaspen, 2009-03-13: 19:03:00
Debtedly a great word! - Nosila, 2009-03-13: 19:11:00
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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
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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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