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'I'm clean! Clean as a needle!'

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

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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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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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Refutalete

Created by: mdmquincy

Pronunciation: re-fyoo-ta-leet

Sentence: Although the tests affirmed the world's suspicions, the refutalete held fast to his disavowal of wrongdoing.

Etymology: refute + athlete with a nice sound connection to the word elite.

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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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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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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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Banshock

Created by: riomarde

Pronunciation: Ban-shock

Sentence: After the Olympian cyclist was caught using illegal performance enhancers he released a statement expressing his banshock and denial.

Etymology: Banned substances... ban + shock... feigned or genuine response to allegations of the athlete’s use of banned substances.

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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)

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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:

petaj 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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Protestosterone

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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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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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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.