Verboticisms

Created by: yaknowmay

Pronunciation: rack-whore

Sentence: the rack whore in MACYS, did everything but drop to her knees, trying to get that sales commision

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Created by: serendipity9000

Pronunciation: SALES-grey-ter

Sentence: I was all excited to look at the latest styles they got in last week - but then their salesgrater started following me around and I had to get out of there.

Etymology: Sales (as in salesperson) + Grate (to annoy or rub the wrong way.. also a play on the standard 'sales-greeter' label for sales people charged with greeting every customer')

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Created by: ziggy41

Pronunciation: Shawp-kreep-err

Sentence: That shopcreeper was pushing me way too much. I grabbed that stupid block of cheese he was trying to sell me and shoved it right in his mouth. He now sells basketballs because he knows no one can stuff those in his mouth... I proved him wrong.

Etymology: Shopkeeper (owner of a shop that sells goods) + creep (an annoying and detestable person)

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COMMENTS:

I already gave my vote to peddlarpusher, but this is even better. - cohenarie, 2007-05-16: 10:51:00

Nice one. - Clayton, 2007-05-16: 14:55:00

great ...awesome - pguse, 2007-06-01: 14:00:00

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Created by: heartnsoul

Pronunciation: ip/i/cac/lurk

Sentence: I thought I had made it through the perfume department undetected, but when I turned down the next aisle, there stood a grinning ipecaclerk with her finger on the trigger of a perfume bottle!

Etymology: ipecac (from Syrup of Ipecac) + clerk (the kind who tends to also lurk)

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COMMENTS:

Aaah! Run! - heartnsoul, 2007-05-16: 19:43:00

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Created by: karenanne

Pronunciation: SALES rep tile

Sentence: The slimy salesreptile stalked me like a crocodile who has realized that a delicious juicy fawn is drinking at the edge of the water. I felt him coming before I actually saw him. Then, like the crocodile, only his eyes appeared over the clothes racks. Like the fawn, I skittered away as he approached, pretending to take an important call which I could only hear by leaving the store.

Etymology: sales rep + reptile

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COMMENTS:

Good story...his prices were probably too deer anyway! - Nosila, 2009-12-01: 20:07:00

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Created by: Paulefinch

Pronunciation: sails-doosh'

Sentence: I was going to buy a few new cds, but the salesdouche just made me want to leave.

Etymology: salesman+douchebag

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Created by: guesser

Pronunciation: shad-O-mizer

Sentence: Our Local Car Dealership is know to only hire shadohmizers.

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Created by: galwaywegian

Pronunciation: all hoel say lor

Sentence: He suggested to the asswholesaler that he park his car of the week somewhere it was anatomically impossible to so do.

Etymology: asshole wholesaler

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COMMENTS:

:) - Nosila, 2011-04-20: 21:34:00

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Created by: galwaywegian

Pronunciation: ass ayls mahn

Sentence: the assailsman had no job convincing sheepish sheila it was a baahrgain

Etymology: salesman assail

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Created by: mweinmann

Pronunciation: merch - hunt - izer

Sentence: Stanley was a Sears merchuntiser. Once he saw a potential customer, he tailed them throughout the store waving his arms and talking about the benefits and low cost of every item the customer walked past. Sometimes people bought things just to get rid of him.

Etymology: merchandiser, hunter

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