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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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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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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.
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.
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)
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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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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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.