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'The salesman told me I didn't need to pay a cent.'

DEFINITION: n. The type of headache you get from buying too many things with your credit card. Note: Symptoms do not usually appear until the following month.v. To buy yourself a huge credit card headache.

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Debtache

Created by: purpleartichokes

Pronunciation: det-ake

Sentence: When she got the credit card bill, she went into lamentstrual syndrome and developed a paymentdoozy of a debtache.

Etymology: debt, headache

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COMMENTS:

I was *this* close to stealing your word. - Clayton, 2007-07-04: 12:06:00

You stole my credache! That's what I get for sleeping in. - purpleartichokes, 2007-07-04: 13:56:00

drunk yet Purple or high - it is the 4th of July - fireworks? - which reminds me of a song "Sky rockets in flight. Afternoon delight. Afternoon delight" - Jabberwocky, 2007-07-04: 15:54:00

Well Jabber, ya cursed me twice. Now I have a song stuck in my head to accompany my sinus headache. Rained all day here. It's only 60 degrees. The highlight of my day was yanking up a garlic bulb that's the size of an onion. I may have to find a site to post a pic. (cracking open a beer in honor of the Starland Vocal Band) - purpleartichokes, 2007-07-04: 17:33:00

Way to go purple - happy 4th of July - Jabberwocky, 2007-07-04: 19:22:00

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Tabtion

Created by: Lapper

Pronunciation: TAB-shun

Sentence: Rick put the 48'' plasma-screen TV on his credit card because he wanted it so much, but later had a tabtion headache over the fact that the minimum payment was twelve hundred dollars a month.

Etymology: Tab and tension

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Expentorture

Created by: rombus

Pronunciation: ex - pend - tore - chur

Sentence: Jonathan was subjected to painful expendtorture every month when his credit card bills arrived. It hurt his brain to contemplate how to pay for his compulsive spending.

Etymology: expenditure, torture

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Sellebralhemorrhage

Created by: bookowl

Pronunciation: sell/ee/brall/hem/or/aj

Sentence: My bank account suffered a sellebralhemorrahage after my last shopping spree.

Etymology: cerebral hemorrhage + sell

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Bankruptalgia

Created by: petaj

Pronunciation: bankrupt-al-gee-a

Sentence: In a fit of pique, Morgan went on a shopping expedition with the corporate credit card purchasing a fleet of vehicles, upgrading PCs for all the staff and treating them all to a long liquid lunch. In addition to their hangovers, they also suffered bankruptalgia the next month when the company went broke and they all lost their jobs.

Etymology: bankrupt + algia (pain) - inspired also by the rupture of a blood vessel in an aneurism

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COMMENTS:

Anything with "-algia" in it gets my vote. But don't hold me to that. - Clayton, 2007-07-04: 12:04:00

Hey Clayton - there are 3 definitions today with algia in them - petaj's sounds the most severe though - Jabberwocky, 2007-07-04: 15:46:00

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Visagraine

Created by: administraitor

Pronunciation: vee-sa-grayn

Sentence: The intensity of Jenny's monthly attack of visagraine depended on how close she came to her credit limit.

Etymology: visa (card) + migraine

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COMMENTS:

I just realized that this could appear sexist. I know that Johnny could just as easily buy 35 pairs of shoes (or power tools for that matter) My apologies to anyone who needs them! - administraitor, 2007-07-04: 10:35:00

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