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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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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)
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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Dopute
Created by: remistram
Pronunciation: doh-pewt
Sentence: After much successful dopute, he realised that retiring from the sport was inevitable and that all the days of denying his real passion for competitive scrabble were coming to an end.
Etymology: dope + dispute
Stareroids
Created by: tatterdemalion
Pronunciation: STAYR-roids
Sentence: Overdosing on stareroids has proven to be vocational suicide for star athletes, however, scientists have not yet discovered whether the effects of this treatment are beneficial or deleterious for society in general.
Etymology: stare + steroids
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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Shonial
Created by: pinkpearls94
Pronunciation: shanile
Sentence: I was in shonial after the doctors found my banned drugs.
Etymology:
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
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.
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.