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DEFINITION: The prescribed response of shock and denial that all world-class athletes follow when caught using banned drugs.
Verboticisms
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Fairoied
Created by: missmurder
Pronunciation: fair-oid
Sentence: When the biker farted, they found out he was high on fairoid.
Etymology: fart-steroid
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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Sterannoyed
Created by: mplsbohemian
Pronunciation: STEHR-uh-noid
Sentence: Alex wept as he saw the sterannoyed look of his favourite cyclist looking back at him from the television screen.
Etymology: steroid + annoyed
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COMMENTS:
poor Alex never gets a break - Jabberwocky, 2007-07-27: 12:43:00
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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
Dopine
Created by: rikboyee
Pronunciation: doe-pine
Sentence: even though he was guilty he still intended to head out to that press conference and dopine like crazy
Etymology: dope, opine, pine
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COMMENTS:
good word - Jabberwocky, 2007-07-27: 14:40:00
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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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COMMENTS:
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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Liareenass
Created by: dancerxoxox
Pronunciation: liar/een/ass
Sentence: I tested him. He was in total liareenass. He wouldn't admit it
Etymology: Liar and ass LOl
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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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)
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.