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DEFINITION: The prescribed response of shock and denial that all world-class athletes follow when caught using banned drugs.

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Hi

Created by: lidia

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Protestosterone

Created by: petaj

Pronunciation: pro-test-ost-err-own

Sentence: Rastus launched into his protestosterone when he first heard the charges against him. Unfortunately he had not rehearsed adequately.

Etymology: protest (one's innocence) + testosterone (abnormally high levels being banned in elite sports)

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Thus the subsequent testostermoan. - purpleartichokes, 2007-07-27: 09:15:00

and then the testostergroan - Jabberwocky, 2007-07-27: 10:46:00

And the resulting testostergnome. - Kyoti, 2007-07-27: 11:04:00

too true - Dopey is one of the seven dwarfs, so what does the snow in Snow White really refer to - Jabberwocky, 2007-07-27: 12:20:00

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Dopute

Created by: remistram

Pronunciation: doh-pewt

Sentence: After much successful dopute, he realised that retiring from the sport was inevitable and that all the days of denying his real passion for competitive scrabble were coming to an end.

Etymology: dope + dispute

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Shinplenimple

Created by: FreakinDuh

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Shonial

Created by: pinkpearls94

Pronunciation: shanile

Sentence: I was in shonial after the doctors found my banned drugs.

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Awenial

Created by: Stevenson0

Pronunciation: awe/ni/al

Sentence: Henri was in total awenial about his alleged drug use. He told the press he was totally awepalled (shocked and horrified) to find out that the needles his coach was giving him were steroids and not vitamin B shots.

Etymology: awe + denial

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Jocklamation

Created by: Jabberwocky

Pronunciation: jok/la/may/shun

Sentence: Who me? Never! is the universal jocklamation of the professional athlete.

Etymology: jock + proclamation + declaration

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I don't know why this makes me think of Saran Wrap and Valetine's day. ;)) - Kyoti, 2007-07-27: 11:07:00

Darned silent "n". - Kyoti, 2007-07-27: 11:07:00

saran wrap? Valentine's Day? perhaps you're confusing this with premature ejockulation - I think there's an injockulation for that - Jabberwocky, 2007-07-27: 12:28:00

Nope, my mistake... I was thinking of jocklamination. - Kyoti, 2007-07-27: 16:35:00

And not my long-suffering bane, jocklamentation. - Kyoti, 2007-07-27: 16:36:00

Or the halloween ornamental jock-O-lantern. - Kyoti, 2007-07-27: 16:37:00

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Roidrangel

Created by: KristinA

Pronunciation: royd-range-L

Sentence: "Roidrangel" is to Major League Baseball, as "I did not have sexual relations with that woman," is to The White House.

Etymology: roidrage (side effect of steroids) + angel (to act innocent)

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You could add wrangle as well for the argument over the charges. - petaj, 2007-07-27: 08:14:00

And the "hypo" portion of "hypotenuse". - Kyoti, 2007-07-27: 11:02:00

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Stareroids

Created by: tatterdemalion

Pronunciation: STAYR-roids

Sentence: Overdosing on stareroids has proven to be vocational suicide for star athletes, however, scientists have not yet discovered whether the effects of this treatment are beneficial or deleterious for society in general.

Etymology: stare + steroids

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