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DEFINITION: v. To sacrifice your health, your family, and even a few friends to money, only to discover that money doesn't like you. n. A sacrifice made for money that goes unrewarded.
Verboticisms
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Selfcapitate
Created by: Bulletchewer
Pronunciation: self-kap-i-tayte
Sentence: The supermodel chose to selfcapitate, leaving her with nothing; but at least she was still skinnier than skin itself.
Etymology: From "self", "capital" (money) and "decapitate" (removal of the head).
Cashflicted
Created by: chofu67
Pronunciation: cash flick ted
Sentence: Cashflicted Chad drifted off to the dark edges of the reunion hall when his material emblems of success were ignored by classmates who viewed him as the same loathesome character they had belittled fifteen years earlier.
Etymology: cash + conflicted
Masolover
Created by: josje
Pronunciation: maso lover
Sentence: please reject me i´m a masolover
Etymology: mosochist and lover
Cashjacked
Created by: Sed8ed
Pronunciation: cash-jack-t
Sentence: He knew he'd become cashjacked when his business went belly up, and none of his friends knew his number anymore.
Etymology:
Autocashtrate
Created by: dwingillinois
Pronunciation: ah' toh KASH trayt
Sentence: While $1,000,000 was a lot of money, I had to consider if it would be worth it to potentially autocashtrate myself.
Etymology: auto (self) + cash (money) + castrate (ouch!)
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COMMENTS:
Good one! - BMott, 2007-02-02: 11:38:00
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Hammerdimed
Created by: gabngar
Pronunciation:
Sentence: Dan had a fortune, but ended broke aster he was hammerdimed.
Etymology: Hammertime-From the famous song "Can't touch this" by M.C. Hammer, who had a fortune but lost it all. Dime- a ten cent coin in the U.S.
Lucrotomy
Created by: erasmus
Pronunciation: loo krot ah mee
Sentence: it was worse than addiction it was lucrotomy.
Etymology: from lucre and surgically removing something you need.
Kennethlaid
Created by: purpleartichokes
Pronunciation: ken-eth-lade
Sentence: Bob had it all - the house, the yacht, the cars, the girls, but when a once-close friend sued him for breach of contract, he found himself kennethlaid and penniless.
Etymology: Kennth Lay - infamous, corrupt CEO of Enron; laid - have sex with, but not in a good way
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COMMENTS:
Good! It's tough being "the smartest guy in the room", when you're also broke... - wordmeister, 2007-02-02: 11:01:00
In my personal opinion, he suffered from monerrhea, and should have sought professional help from psychiatrists instead of accountants. - purpleartichokes, 2007-02-02: 18:17:00
I don't get it. At all. - BMott, 2007-02-06: 03:04:00
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Econowhered
Created by: ahwinters
Pronunciation: echo + know + whered
Sentence: She gave up all of her friends for that hihg-paying job that left her econowhered.
Etymology: economics + nowhere
