DEFINITION: n. The creative, yet blatantly illegal use of plastic milk crates, and the latent fear of prosecution associated with this alleged crime. v. To create and build home furnishings using stolen milk crates.
VERBOTICISMS: (Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers)
Blactosemarket: /blak tose mar ket/ Eddy Jones likes living on the edge. He likes to think his middle name is Danger, but it is actually Howard. Eddy recycles milk crates and makes them into other objects and sells them. Anyday now he could be caught with crate freight, by the police who he calls Crate Watchers. He is working the blactosemarket very successfully. His latest project is coffins, air-conditioned ones. He markets them as The Crateful Dead. Etymology: Black Market (an illegal market in which goods or currencies are bought and sold in violation of rationing or controls)& Lactose (a sugar comprising one glucose molecule linked to a galactose molecule; occurs only in milk) Created by: Nosila.
Crativity: /kray tiviteeee/ His crativity was never really understood in his lifetime. It was a tragic case. Etymology: creativity, crate Created by: galwaywegian.
Larcendairy: /lärsÉ™ndÉ™rÄ“/ When Jill went off to college she didn’t go through the trauma that some of her friends did buying furniture and everything else that students need. She concentrated on her wardrobe and left the furniture to the larcendairy method. Bookshelves, computer desk & chair, even her bedframe was courtesy of the local convenience store. Etymology: larceny (theft of personal property) + dairy (containing or made from milk) Created by: artr.
Crascandalate: /cruh-scan-all-ate/ Josh was arrested for crascandalating and theft with a deadly glass of milk. Etymology: crate + scandal Created by: remistram.
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