Verboticisms

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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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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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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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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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)

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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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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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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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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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Created by: FreakinDuh

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