Verboticisms

Created by: GreenTara

Pronunciation: Terror-Corp

Sentence: All the terrorcorps competed with one another to scare the public the most - for the most profit.

Etymology: terror-fear, corp-corporation

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Created by: Metalflower

Pronunciation:

Sentence: When bird flu hit the world, Ecounlogists made millions of dollars by selling face masks, which didn't help at all.

Etymology: Ecologist, unlogic

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Created by: BellaRina

Pronunciation: F-L-A-B-ER-Boo-Sh-Boom

Sentence: please help donate 4$ bfore we haver a FlabberBoshBomb

Etymology: Flabber (FEar) Bosh(OF) Bomb(BOMb)

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Created by: Kyoti

Pronunciation: GREEN-fleece

Sentence: Although Harriet had submitted her application 18 months ago, along with the $495 membership fee, she suddenly began to realize that she may not have been selected as an elite member of Greenfleece.

Etymology: Green (money) + Greenpeace + fleece (rip off)

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COMMENTS:

A growing trend. Great word. - OZZIEBOB, 2007-08-10: 21:54:00

I like it as a verb, too - xtine, 2007-08-13: 16:42:00

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Created by: Karuma

Pronunciation: ee-ko-grif-tur

Sentence: they all always play those stupid ecogrifter infomercials late at night. that guy is on the long ecogrift.

Etymology: eco=world, grift=a group of methods for obtaining money falsely through the use of swindles, frauds, dishonest gambling, etc.

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Created by: xtine

Pronunciation: reck-sploy-tay-shun

Sentence: Every time another climate based disaster occurred, Sally mounted another Google keyword ad campaign to collect donations, a shameless example of wrecksploitation.

Etymology: wreckage, exploitation

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Created by: tubeyes

Pronunciation: mer-dah-kit-ee

Sentence: Sean was quite happy when his televised rantings produced a state of general mourdochity over the TV watching public.

Etymology: Morbidity and Murdoch [of the Rubert persuasion]

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Created by: rikboyee

Pronunciation: jak-pot-cah-lips

Sentence: after a strong opening weekend at the cinemas, Al Gore knew he had hit the jackpotcalypse

Etymology: jackpot, apocalypse

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Created by: petaj

Pronunciation: echo-pour-ee-um

Sentence: I went to the ecoporium today. I needed to assuage my guilt from overconsumerism and fear of global destruction by indulging in some retail therapy. So I put some pure wool gloves, knitted by hand in the Gobi Desert, sailed across the ocean and delivered by Prius to the shops. I put them on my carboncredit card.

Etymology: ecology + emporium

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COMMENTS:

You have to watch out that those carboncredit cards don't catch a light a burn a hole in your pocket. - petaj, 2007-08-12: 02:44:00

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Created by: Gionuzzo

Pronunciation: uh POK oh rich

Sentence: Hoboes with "the world will end!" signs do exactly the same thing as the apocorich company that made the Al Gore/Global warming movie, but the hobos don't make money!

Etymology: apocolypse + rich

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