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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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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
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
Kleptocrappycratecreation
Created by: abrakadeborah
Pronunciation: klep-tow-crap-pee-crate-cree-ay-shun
Sentence: Leon was always going behind the local stores and sneaking away with anything he thought would be useful to help him craft into or repair broken household items. However, his wife Alison wasn't at all impressed with Leon's "Kleptocrappycratecreation" of the broken plastic crap-pee crate toilet seat Leon created, because it was not only tacky...it pinched her behind and her feet couldn't touch the floor!
Etymology: Klepto;(Slang) A person who has a compulsion to steal; a kleptomaniac. Crappy;Inferior; worthless. Also a play on the word crappy as "crap-pee"
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COMMENTS:
nice - Jabberwocky, 2009-04-03: 12:34:00
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Moomentum
Created by: HighWitness
Pronunciation: moo-meant-um
Sentence: The moomentum movement wasted uncountable amounts of milk cartons, but on the bright side, new homes were constructed and everyone ate more chicken!
Etymology:
Blactosemarket
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: blak tose mar ket
Sentence: Eddy Jones likes living on the edge. He likes to think his middle name is Danger, but it is actually Howard. Eddy recycles milk crates and makes them into other objects and sells them. Anyday now he could be caught with crate freight, by the police who he calls Crate Watchers. He is working the blactosemarket very successfully. His latest project is coffins, air-conditioned ones. He markets them as The Crateful Dead.
Etymology: Black Market (an illegal market in which goods or currencies are bought and sold in violation of rationing or controls)& Lactose (a sugar comprising one glucose molecule linked to a galactose molecule; occurs only in milk)
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
Grandlarcendairy
Created by: rombus
Pronunciation: grand + larsen + dary
Sentence: Ruben got put in the slammer for 2 years for grandlarcendairy when he was finally caught stealing 100 milk crates from the Dean's Dairy Company.
Etymology: Grand Larceny and Dairy
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COMMENTS:
fantastic - Jabberwocky, 2009-04-03: 12:33:00
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Dairegret
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: dair-ee-gret
Sentence: James knows that it is not legal to use milk cartons for his own purposes. He doesn't let his dairegret stop him from having a bookcase that covers an entire wall of his apartment made of these ubiquitous cubes.
Etymology: dairy (of or relating to the production of milk and milk products) + regret (o feel sorrow or remorse)
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
Lactoseintollerance
Created by: Biscotti
Pronunciation: lack-tos-in-tol-er-anse
Sentence: Vicky was apalled at Jims lactoseintollerance, when he used a milk crate as a substitute for a port-o-potty.
Etymology: Lactose (like milk) + intollerance (to not put up with)
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