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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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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
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
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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COMMENTS:
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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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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Shonial
Created by: pinkpearls94
Pronunciation: shanile
Sentence: I was in shonial after the doctors found my banned drugs.
Etymology:
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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Dopethical
Created by: OZZIEBOB
Pronunciation: dope+ eth +IK + cal
Sentence: His dopethical drivel fooled no-one this time. On too many occasions in the past his doperfidy had tarnished the reputation of the sport and all who participated in it. However, this time all could see clearly that he was nothing more than a dopelethic doperat, a pathetic liar and cheat, now banned from the sport for life.
Etymology: Dope + ethical: Moral principles(feigned)-regarding the use of dope/ drugs).
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COMMENTS:
that could be construed as a hypodopethical statement - Jabberwocky, 2007-07-27: 11:35:00
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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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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.