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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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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)
Barryjuice
Created by: kabloozie
Pronunciation: Bare-e-joos
Sentence: After he failed the drug test, Doug launched into a barryjuice, and claimed his detractors spiked his Gatorade.
Etymology: Barry Bonds + juice (slang for 'roids)
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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Shonial
Created by: pinkpearls94
Pronunciation: shanile
Sentence: I was in shonial after the doctors found my banned drugs.
Etymology:
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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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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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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Fairoied
Created by: missmurder
Pronunciation: fair-oid
Sentence: When the biker farted, they found out he was high on fairoid.
Etymology: fart-steroid
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.