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DEFINITION: n. An individual, or an organization, which profits by selling fear of imminent global destruction and/or eternal damnation. v. To profit from the prophecy of doom.
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Cashicide
Created by: BMott
Pronunciation: Kash-e-side
Sentence: "Good afternoon, this is Tracy with the Ecosave Organization. If you don't donate $10 today our world will end." Justin said "Hey, that's cashicide! Lose my number!"
Etymology: Cash - Money : Cide - From Suicide, if you don't donate you are essentially commiting suicide.
Frightstalker
Created by: porsche
Pronunciation: frite/stocker
Sentence: I am the frightstalker - give me your money
Etymology: Fright + stalker + Night stalker
Profiterrorist
Created by: Javeson1
Pronunciation: proff-fit-ter-or-ist
Sentence: Profiterrorists are making a bad name for those conservation groups that actually have a legit cause to defend.
Etymology: profiteer+terrorist
Globafearism
Created by: coffeeman885
Pronunciation: glo-ba-fear-ism
Sentence: The company used globafearism to keep a strong monopolistic stance in the market.
Etymology: global - world-wide; fearism - the act of imparting fear.
Armageddick
Created by: purpleartichokes
Pronunciation: ar-ma-GED-dik
Sentence: When the world did not stop turning on February 6th, Bob realized he had been suckered in by yet another armageddick.
Etymology: Armageddon, ...
Shoeblobium
Created by: bobditty
Pronunciation: shoe-blob-e-um
Sentence: I always get emails from shoeblobiums.
Etymology: shoe blob- something that is really anoying but you don't try to get rid of it.
Greensleeveen
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: greeeen sleeeee veeeeeen
Sentence: This greensleeveen was a small smooth adorable ecothief, more a laprachaun than a leprachaun with a great line in blarney and the morals of a whore.
Etymology: green sleeveen (Irish; a sly obsequious smooth-tongued person [from Irish Gaelic slíbhín] :It isn't any wonder at all that a child would be a liar and a sleeveen and a trampler of the roads with the first man that nods to her when her mother is a foolish person that she can't trust. —Mary, Mary)
Armagettin
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: ärməgetn
Sentence: Earth End, Inc. is armagettin it while they can. Their ”Repent now. Pay less later” t-shirts have done well but their best seller by far has been the fire-and-brimstone-proof cash box.
Etymology: armageddon (the last battle between good and evil) + getting (acquiring)
Capocalist
Created by: riflesandkids74
Pronunciation: Keh-pok-uh-list
Sentence:
Etymology: Apocalypse - Capitalist
Comments:
ErWenn - 2007-02-06: 22:47:00
Too many good words; not enough votes.
squirreleater - 2009-09-11: 17:23:00
I would have gone with republicans