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DEFINITION: v., To carefully place a lid on a bottle, especially a salad dressing bottle, so that it appears closed and will not spill unless the bottle is moved or shaken. n., A bottle which has been prepared in such a manner.
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Faketite
Created by: KenM2
Pronunciation:
Sentence: He carefully performed faketite on the bottle, then hid in the back to watch the victim.
Etymology: Fake+Tight
Saladregressing
Created by: mplsbohemian
Pronunciation: SAL-luhd-ree-grehs-sihng
Sentence: Neither Alex's date nor her white dress appreciated his foolish act of saladregressing.
Etymology: salad dressing + regressing to the level of 12-year-olds
Slimebomb
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: sligh mmmmmmmmmm boh mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
Sentence: The recently detonated slimebomb mocked her, Paul Newman grinning as the goo slid down his chin
Etymology: timebomb, slime
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COMMENTS:
great visual - Jabberwocky, 2008-09-19: 09:29:00
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Frenchmessing
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: fren tch messs ihng
Sentence: with a twist of the wrist the french dressing became frenchmessing. magnifique!
Etymology: french dressing, messing
Hovercaped
Created by: Lidipop
Pronunciation: huv-er-kap-ed
Sentence: when she left the table, she secretly 'hovercaped' the bottle & "forgot" it behind for someone else to grab! :)
Etymology:
Halflip
Created by: jhill1229
Pronunciation: haf lip
Sentence: It drives me crazy when my son halflips the milk container.
Etymology:
Bleusneeze
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: bloōsnēz
Sentence: Bill thought he’d play his famous bleusneeze prank on his new girlfriend, leaving the cap loosened on the bottle of salad dressing so that she would spray it all over herself when she shook it. The joke was just as funny (or funnier) when she reached for the bottle, tipped it over and spilled the contents in Bill’s lap. Unsure if she did it on purpose or not, he quietly screwed the lids back on the salt and pepper shakers.
Etymology: bleu cheese (cheese containing veins of blue mold, such as Gorgonzola and Danish Blue) + sneeze (make a sudden involuntary expulsion of air from the nose and mouth due to irritation of one’s nostrils)
Flimflamcap
Created by: Lecroan
Pronunciation: flim-flam-cap
Sentence: i was totally flimflamcapped by Gerald last night, my favourite sweater smells like chutney now.
Etymology: latin-segunda-greek origin
Fauxclosure
Created by: phild3791
Pronunciation: \ˈfō\ˈklō-zhər\
Sentence: Phil hadn’t realized he was a victim of Fauxclosure until it was too late and his shirt was ruined.
Etymology: Faux: French, false. Closure : an act of closing : the condition of being closed
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COMMENTS:
BWAHAHAHA! I Love this! - Lolagrrl, 2007-10-23: 10:11:00
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Comments:
Today's definition was suggested by remistram. Thank you remistram! ~ James
Definitely Krafty behaviour!
remistram - 2007-10-23: 09:52:00
I had to marry the loose lidder...I'm a shake first, tight lidder thus the birth of this definition.
Time to throttle the bottler? ~ James
galwaywegian - 2008-09-19: 06:29:00
galwaywegian - 2008-09-19: 06:30:00
very high standard so far today!
Today's definition was suggested by remistram. Thank you remistram. ~ James