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DEFINITION: n. The creative, yet blatantly illegal use of plastic milk crates, and the latent fear of prosecution associated with this alleged crime. v. To create and build home furnishings using stolen milk crates.
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Decorcrating
Created by: Nuwanda
Pronunciation: de-core-crate-ing
Sentence: Everyone who stopped by my studio apartment felt the need to comment on my decorcrating. And you could always tell the recent visitors by the telltale grid imprints on their behinds after spending some time on my milk crate bar stools. These beauties were milk crates turned upside down and mounted on heavy duty orange construction cones. Very classy.
Etymology: Decor and decorating modified to include crate.
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COMMENTS:
Good word and you should be on HGTV! - Nosila, 2009-04-03: 23:30:00
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Craterape
Created by: kateinkorea
Pronunciation: CRATE rape
Sentence: I felt tricked into being involved in something vile. John, my roommate, had suggested that I carry my groceries home in a milk crate. “People do it all the time,” he had said. And he promised he would bring it back for me. But once we got home he got lazy about taking it back and instead decided to recreate the milk crate into a part of his new bookshelf. Feeling quite clever, he morphed it into something unrecognizable. His craterape was the last straw in our ongoing stressful existence under the same roof.
Etymology: CRATE + RAPE+ DATERAPE RAPE: to plunder (a place); despoil; to seize, take, or carry off by force
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COMMENTS:
terrific story - Jabberwocky, 2009-04-03: 12:30:00
crate ending, too! - silveryaspen, 2009-04-04: 09:03:00
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Dairycycling
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: day reee siy kling
Sentence: His dairycycling was proof that there was no use crying over spilt milk
Etymology: dairy recycling
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COMMENTS:
very witty - Jabberwocky, 2009-04-03: 12:31:00
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Lactoshui
Created by: toy4769
Pronunciation: Lack-toe-schway
Sentence: I really like what you've done with the place Margaret as the room has a real lactoshui feel to it that balances everything out.
Etymology: From Latin lac = milk and from Chinese for 'wind water' and popular design techniques = Feng Shui
Cratedenza
Created by: Jabberwocky
Pronunciation: crate/den/za
Sentence: Sam built a beautiful cratedenza in the dining room and filled it with antique glass.
Etymology: crate + credenza
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COMMENTS:
nice one - mrskellyscl, 2009-04-03: 11:10:00
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Decorcrate
Created by: readerwriter
Pronunciation: deh-cohr-kr8
Sentence: From her cell at the local jail, as she waited for the first visit from her lawyer, Diane could envision the creative possibilites for the tiny room, the very reason for her arrest. Oh, the injustice of it all! Yes, she had been taking plastic milk crates from the back of supermarkets, she would plead, but they were for use on the HGTV show she had proposed six months before. She had no idea why she hadn't heard from the television producers. Her ideas were so eco-friendly and Decorcrating with Diane seemed like such a good name for a show.
Etymology: A blend of DECOR/DECORATE, meaning ornamentation, adorn, array, embellish + CRATE
Crativity
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: kray tiviteeee
Sentence: His crativity was never really understood in his lifetime. It was a tragic case.
Etymology: creativity, crate
Crative
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: kray tiv
Sentence: thinking too far outside the box inevitably leads to a bad case of crativity
Etymology: crate creative
Creativemess
Created by: dj1919
Pronunciation: kree-ey-tiv-mess
Sentence: It was a good idea when i got the creativemess out to replace the toilet. it cleans up ANY messes in the toilet. Just place the fizz in the toilet and CLEAN AWAY! Creativemess comes in 6 packs. But Before you get your toilet wand out, go to the store and buy, creativemess! It'll do the cleanin' for ya'll!
Etymology: creative: –adjective 1. having the quality or power of creating. 2. resulting from originality of thought, expression, etc.; imaginative: creative writing. 3. originative; productive (usually fol. by of). 4. Facetious. using or creating exaggerated or skewed data, information, etc.: creative bookkeeping. mess: noun. 1. a dirty, untidy, or disordered condition: The room was in a mess. 2. a person or thing that is dirty, untidy, or disordered. 3. a state of embarrassing confusion: My affairs are in a mess. 4. an unpleasant or difficult situation: She got into a mess driving without a license. 5. a dirty or untidy mass, litter, or jumble: a mess of papers. 6. a group regularly taking their meals together. 7. the meal so taken. 8. mess hall. 9. Naval. messroom. 10. a quantity of food sufficient for a dish or a single occasion: to pick a mess of sweet corn for dinner. 11. a sloppy or unappetizing preparation of food. 12. a dish or quantity of soft or liquid food: to cook up a nice mess of pottage. 13. a person whose life or affairs are in a state of confusion, esp. a person with a confused or disorganized moral or psychological outlook. –verb (used with object) 14. to make dirty or untidy (often fol. by up): Don't mess the room. 15. to make a mess or muddle of (affairs, responsibilities, etc.) (often fol. by up): They messed the deal. 16. to supply with meals, as military personnel. 17. to treat roughly; beat up (usually followed by up): The gang messed him up. –verb (used without object) 18. to eat in company, esp. as a member of a mess. 19. to make a dirty or untidy mess. —Verb phrases20. mess around or about, a. Informal. to busy oneself without purpose or plan; work aimlessly or halfheartedly; putter. b. Informal. to waste time; loaf. c. Informal. to meddle or interfere. d. Informal. to involve or associate oneself, esp. for immoral or unethical purposes: His wife accused him of messing around with gamblers. e. Slang. to trifle sexually; philander. 21. mess in or with, to intervene officiously; meddle: You'll get no thanks for messing in the affairs of others. 22. mess up, a. to make dirty, untidy, or disordered. b. to make muddled, confused, etc.; make a mess of; spoil; botch. c. to perform poorly; bungle: She messed up on the final exam.
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COMMENTS:
LOVE IT! - dj1919, 2009-04-03: 21:54:00
Welcome! You may have set a new record for the longest etymology! - silveryaspen, 2009-04-04: 09:05:00
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Milkcrateratorator
Created by: amylynn242
Pronunciation: Milk-crater-ator-ator
Sentence: The seat i was sitting on cracked so i got my handy dandy milkcrateratorator. It looks like a milk crate only it it electric and whips you bottem for you. it's the PERFECT thing to replace your toilet seat!
Etymology: Milk-crater-ator-ator
Comments:
Today's definition was suggested by metrohumanx. Thank you metrohumanx. ~ James
My fat-free pleasure...
Today's definition was suggested by metrohumanx. Thank you metrohumanx. ~ James