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'I'm clean! Clean as a needle!'

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.

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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

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Awenial

Created by: Stevenson0

Pronunciation: awe/ni/al

Sentence: Henri was in total awenial about his alleged drug use. He told the press he was totally awepalled (shocked and horrified) to find out that the needles his coach was giving him were steroids and not vitamin B shots.

Etymology: awe + denial

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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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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:

petaj 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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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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Hi

Created by: lidia

Pronunciation:

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Etymology:

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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

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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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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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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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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.