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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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Erkimclean
Created by: bigk3452
Pronunciation: erk-im-clean
Sentence: When the athlete was asked if he was clean in the Tour De France, he replied: "Erkimclean"
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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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COMMENTS:
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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Repfutation
Created by: ziggy41
Pronunciation: Rep-few-tay-shun
Sentence: His general repfutation persisted of "What... uh... steroids? ... LOOK! A BASEBALL PLAYER!!"
Etymology: Reputation (a "good name", of, say, an athlete) + refutation (denial)
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
Illishit
Created by: purpleartichokes
Pronunciation: ill-ih-shit
Sentence: Seeing the blood tests come back with the testosterone levels of a 16-year old, he plunged into a state of illishit.
Etymology: illicit (drugs), and likely the first word that comes out of an athlete's mouth once they're found out.
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COMMENTS:
Good one! - remistram, 2007-07-27: 10:15:00
but everyone knew he was fullishit - Jabberwocky, 2007-07-27: 12:35:00
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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
Shonial
Created by: pinkpearls94
Pronunciation: shanile
Sentence: I was in shonial after the doctors found my banned drugs.
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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
Jahumby
Created by: Rjxxx
Pronunciation: Ja-hum-bay
Sentence: That is a lot of jahumby
Etymology: nonsense,rubbish
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COMMENTS:
Bess Wurd Oot =D xx - Rjxxx, 2007-07-28: 13:17:00
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Increphedralous
Created by: Kyoti
Pronunciation: In-creh-feh-druh-luss
Sentence: Buzz was just as astonished as anyone when he threw his javelin right out of the stadium, but was full of increphedralous indignation when people began to imply he was somehow abusing performance-enhancing substances.
Etymology: Incredulous + ephedra
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COMMENTS:
you must admit that it was an increphedrable distance - Jabberwocky, 2007-07-27: 12:23:00
The International Athletics Ephederation is conducting an internal investigation to get to the bottoms of these ephedreadful allegations. - Kyoti, 2007-07-27: 16:33:00
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Comments:
Jabberwocky - 2007-07-27: 10:48:00
I'm trying to figure out if it's Andy Warhol or Annie Lennox giving the injection
KristinA - 2007-07-27: 14:11:00
I was thinking Bowie.
ziggy41 - 2007-07-28: 01:34:00
Ellen Degeneres was my first guess.
Kyoti - 2007-07-29: 10:45:00
Anne Heche fools everyone yet again.