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DEFINITION: An individual, or an organization, which profits by selling fear of imminent global destruction and/or eternal damnation.
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Terrorcorp
Created by: GreenTara
Pronunciation: Terror-Corp
Sentence: All the terrorcorps competed with one another to scare the public the most - for the most profit.
Etymology: terror-fear, corp-corporation
Terramageddonist
Created by: KristinA
Pronunciation: tear-uh-muh-ged-un-ist
Sentence: We have stopped inviting Cathy to the beach with us. Her terramageddonist reminders of how the beach sand which sticks to our feet increases erosion and leads to the extinction of all sea turtles, is too much for us to bear.
Etymology: terra (Earth) + armegeddon (end of Earth) + ist (pertaining to a person/organization); also, the tie with "terror" and "terrorist"
Wrecksploitation
Created by: xtine
Pronunciation: reck-sploy-tay-shun
Sentence: Every time another climate based disaster occurred, Sally mounted another Google keyword ad campaign to collect donations, a shameless example of wrecksploitation.
Etymology: wreckage, exploitation
Destructimination
Created by: kellii3
Pronunciation: destruct im in ation
Sentence: do not beleive all of the destructimination scams that people use to scare the money from us.
Etymology: destruct - destruct imin - imminent ation - destruction
Manifeto
Created by: fensketo
Pronunciation: man-a-feet-oh
Sentence: Man if I wasn't manifeto I wouldn't be a loser!
Etymology: Man - Feet
Jackpotcalypse
Created by: rikboyee
Pronunciation: jak-pot-cah-lips
Sentence: after a strong opening weekend at the cinemas, Al Gore knew he had hit the jackpotcalypse
Etymology: jackpot, apocalypse
Ecogrifter
Created by: Karuma
Pronunciation: ee-ko-grif-tur
Sentence: they all always play those stupid ecogrifter infomercials late at night. that guy is on the long ecogrift.
Etymology: eco=world, grift=a group of methods for obtaining money falsely through the use of swindles, frauds, dishonest gambling, etc.
Menacemonger
Created by: remistram
Pronunciation: men-iss-mong-ger
Sentence: If only they'd menacemnonger the industries that pollute and destroy the environment.
Etymology: menace + monger
Ecolojesus
Created by: Osomatic
Pronunciation: ee + col + oh + jeez + us
Sentence: Oh, don't worry about that guy - he just another ecolojesus... he's worried about the effect of dog hair on our planet.
Etymology: ecology + jesus
Comments:
iwasatripwire - 2007-08-12: 01:27:00
repeat!