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DEFINITION: n., The wondrous, and the "wonder how I'm going to pay for it" feelings of the holiday shopping season. v., To stumble through a shopping mall like a zombie on a buying binge, grabbing anything and everything that will fit on your credit card.
Verboticisms
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Plastickorgy
Created by: OZZIEBOB
Pronunciation: plas-tik-AWR-jee
Sentence: Roxie never put off till tomorrow buying what she could buy today. And she was never so happy than at Christmas time, when her uberplasticity 'maxed out' in a plastickorgy of buying "happiness" for kith and kin alike.
Etymology: Blend of PLASTIC: a card (usually plastic) that assures a seller that the person using it has a satisfactory credit rating and that the issuer will see to it that the seller receives payment for the merchandise delivered; "do you take plastic?" [syn: credit card, plastic] TICK: , n. [Abbrev. from ticket.] Credit; trust; as, to buy on, or upon, tick. To go on trust, or credit. & ORGY: any act of immoderate indulgence; "an orgy of shopping"; "an emotional binge"; "a splurge of spending" [syn: orgy, binge, splurge]
Consumepulsion
Created by: MrDave2176
Pronunciation: con-soom-pul-shun
Sentence: (sung to The Christmas Song) Visa maxed out on some hopeless bling, Discover's reaching for the max you know it s been said many times many ways, Comesumepulsion's got you now...
Etymology: Consume!/Consumer + (com)pulsion
Ghoulcarding
Created by: Stevenson0
Pronunciation: gool/card/ing
Sentence: On Christmas Eve the the malls are filled with people ghoulcarding, buying anything and everything in sight and willing to kill for it.
Etymology: ghoul + gold card
Mastercarteblanche
Created by: libertybelle
Pronunciation: mah-stir-cart-blahnch
Sentence: Jeff realized that giving his wife the gold card to buy his grand daughter a Christmas present would get pricey, but he never figured that she'd go all master carte blanche on him and buy up every Hannah Montana item that the stores stocked.
Etymology: Master card: credit card company + carte blanche: indiscretionary power
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COMMENTS:
Hannah is hypnotic...must buy, must buy! - Nosila, 2008-12-17: 21:46:00
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Peeadly
Created by: Tamra
Pronunciation: Pee ADD-ly
Sentence: When I locked my keys in my car I was stranded and with no restrooms nearby I had a sudden feeling of peeadly.
Etymology: the sudden feeling of the need to urinate. The feeling one gets when they feel they can no longer 'hold it'
Shopnosis
Created by: remistram
Pronunciation: shop-noh-sis
Sentence: Stumbling through the mall in a state of shopnosis, she was glad she brought her pillow and blanket so she could have a nice sleep on one of the comfy leather couches.
Etymology: shop + hypnosis
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COMMENTS:
I like it! Deck the malls with spending folly, fa-la-la-la-lah la-la-la-lah... - Tigger, 2007-12-16: 16:33:00
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Inadvisabill
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: inn add veez ab ill
Sentence: It was inadvisabill to try to do all one's christmas shopping in Cartier, after the child could choke on those rocks, but that the heck, it was christmas
Etymology: inadvisable, visa bill
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COMMENTS:
My excuse would be that the Visa-bility was obscured by the glare. great word - Jabberwocky, 2007-12-14: 10:50:00
very clever incorporation of Visa! - silveryaspen, 2007-12-14: 14:19:00
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Oweholynight
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: oh holee nite
Sentence: Oweholynight! The stores are brightly shining, It is the night of getting your money's worth, Long lay those cards in purse and pocket pining, Tills reappear and the soul spent its worth. A thrill of hope the retail world rejoices, For yonder breaks your budget by Mastercard. Fall on your knees! Owe, hear the Visa voices! Owenight divine, Owenight when AmEx was reborn; Owenight divine, Owenight, Owenight Divine.
Etymology: Owe (be in debt, owe money for goods bought) & O Holy Night (Christmas Eve, the night of Jesus' birth, the reason we celebrate Christmas; the title of a Carol announcing the birth of the Savior)
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COMMENTS:
I didn't know you were so musical!
Nice job! - metrohumanx, 2008-12-17: 00:47:00
magic!! love it! - galwaywegian, 2008-12-17: 04:06:00
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Trancspend
Created by: nicky
Pronunciation:
Sentence: I go to the mall around Christmas and trancspend till my wife calls and says its time to come home.
Etymology: trance, spend
Shopnosis
Created by: remistram
Pronunciation: shop-no-sis
Sentence: Everyone was in a state of shopnosis, grabbing any piece of junk they could get their hands on, not paying any attention to what these objects were, their purpose or appropriateness. Uncle Moe has been as bald as a cue ball since he was 35. Imagine the surprise on his face when he sees the hair straightener that his niece bought him.
Etymology: hypnosis (an artificially induced trance state) + shop (to visit stores for purchasing goods)
Comments:
Today's definition was suggested by silveryaspen Thank you silveryaspen ~ James
silveryaspen - 2007-12-14: 14:44:00
Liked all the words!
Thank you silveryaspen for the great idea ~ James
silveryaspen - 2008-12-17: 19:12:00
Into the valley of malls, went the $5 hundreds ... It was the light of the charge brigade!
Today's definition was suggested by silveryaspen. Thank you silveryaspen. ~ James