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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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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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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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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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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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Liareenass
Created by: dancerxoxox
Pronunciation: liar/een/ass
Sentence: I tested him. He was in total liareenass. He wouldn't admit it
Etymology: Liar and ass LOl
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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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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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.