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DEFINITION: To have a big fight over nothing, that is really a fight about money.

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Billibuster

Created by: Jabberwocky

Pronunciation: bill/i/bust/ur

Sentence: Jill was a seasoned billibuster. Her stand on spending escalated into fights involving whipping each other with five dollar bills. That was pretty ineffectual so they tossed coins instead.

Etymology: bill (as in dollar) + filibuster (opponent deliberately hindering the passage of a bill) + bustup (fight)

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COMMENTS:

Nothing says "What were you thinking?" like swinging a bag of nickels on a Friday night. - Kyoti, 2007-07-16: 13:23:00

[No one got hurt in the making of that sentence] great word - ziggy41, 2007-07-16: 16:03:00

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Profidicament

Created by: loofarama

Pronunciation: pra-fi-dic-a-ment

Sentence: as soon as she started yelling I knew we were in a profidicament

Etymology: profit(money) + Perdicament

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Monattack

Created by: weareallbeautiful

Pronunciation: m-aw-nuh-t-ah-k

Sentence: They had a huge monattack.

Etymology: monetary+attack

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Bickerbucker

Created by: mplsbohemian

Pronunciation: BIHK-ur-buhk-ur

Sentence: Alex's girlfriend bickerbuckered with him all the way from their date. He wondered why she considered the Freezy Dreem a cheap date, when he ponied up for the *chocolate-dipped* cones.

Etymology: bicker + buck (one US dollar). Reduplication connotes both duration and lack of severity.

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COMMENTS:

Sounds like something you'd hear while throttling up the Harley. Good word! - Kyoti, 2007-07-16: 13:28:00

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Montling

Created by: Dustinisdean2007

Pronunciation: Mon-ta-ling

Sentence: A man and a woman are montling over a sock.

Etymology: "Mon" stands for "Money", "t" comes from "Battle", "ling" stands for "Doing".

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Coinincident

Created by: MisUndrstd

Pronunciation: {Koin-in-si-duhnt}

Sentence: My cousin Joey "Big Cannoli" Romano (you know, my cousin Vinnie's brother from the Bronx). Started a fight Saturday night at "Vito's bar" on 5th and Vine. Joey said he didn't like how the guy looked at him. But Vinnie later told me that the guy's uncle owed Joey money.

Etymology: Coin (metal money) + incident (a situation) = Coinincident.

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Fracashing

Created by: Kyoti

Pronunciation: Frack-a-shing

Sentence: Trudy, discovering that Eddie had secured a home equity loan and purchased a plasma television and a pool table for the game room, slid over the edge from disbelief to rage in about 7 seconds and began fracashing him for nearly two solid hours, during which time he could only offer his "pouty lip face" in a hollow, yet ineffective, attempt to persuade her to be reasonable.

Etymology: Fracas+cashing

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COMMENTS:

it looks like a pouty lip face but in reality he's watching his plasma televsion at the same time - Jabberwocky, 2007-07-16: 11:15:00

pouty lip = lipflop - purpleartichokes, 2007-07-16: 13:52:00

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