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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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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.
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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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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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)
Erkimclean
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"
Etymology:
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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Jocklamation
Created by: Jabberwocky
Pronunciation: jok/la/may/shun
Sentence: Who me? Never! is the universal jocklamation of the professional athlete.
Etymology: jock + proclamation + declaration
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COMMENTS:
I don't know why this makes me think of Saran Wrap and Valetine's day. ;)) - Kyoti, 2007-07-27: 11:07:00
Darned silent "n". - Kyoti, 2007-07-27: 11:07:00
saran wrap? Valentine's Day? perhaps you're confusing this with premature ejockulation - I think there's an injockulation for that - Jabberwocky, 2007-07-27: 12:28:00
Nope, my mistake... I was thinking of jocklamination. - Kyoti, 2007-07-27: 16:35:00
And not my long-suffering bane, jocklamentation. - Kyoti, 2007-07-27: 16:36:00
Or the halloween ornamental jock-O-lantern. - Kyoti, 2007-07-27: 16:37:00
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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)
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.