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DEFINITION: v. To exclusively use credit cards, debit cards and/or electronic banking in order to avoid using, or even touching, old fashioned cash. n. A person who never pays for anything using real money.
Verboticisms
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Spendshift
Created by: Mustang
Pronunciation: spend-shift
Sentence: Gabe's wife, Myrtle, loved to tell her friends that he had become a devoted spendshift, having arranged to have both their paychecks deposited directly to their banking accounts, doing all his bill paying on line and making all purchases with credit or debit cards, thereby avoiding any contact with actual cash which he considered to be antiquated and beneath him.
Etymology: Blend of spend and shift, a play on the word spendthrift.
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COMMENTS:
Spendshift and exchange day (slang term frequently used for pay day) go so well together. Superb pun and a terrific create! - silveryaspen, 2009-03-13: 09:58:00
Excellent word! - splendiction, 2009-03-14: 22:27:00
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Buckstopper
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: buk stop per
Sentence: Let's be Franc...Mark had a Yen to use plastic. He liked it so much because he did not have to dirty his hands with cash. He would Peso himself spending by only charging items. He would not Baht an eye at high service fees and comPound interest rates. His friends called him Robert Dinero...
Etymology: Buck (dollar in slang) & Stopper (to no longer use or be part of)
Phobuc
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: foh buhk
Sentence: his psychiatrist diagnosed him as phobuc, and set up a direct debit billing system
Etymology: phobic, buck
Indebtermined
Created by: bookowl
Pronunciation: in/deh/ter/min/ed
Sentence: He was indebtermined to avoid paying cash.
Etymology: in debt + determined
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COMMENTS:
amazing how so many people are anxious to remain indebtermined! This one will pop out of my head everytime some one tells me about deeply indebtermined they are! - silveryaspen, 2009-03-13: 19:02:00
left a word out of the last line ... about how deeply indebtermined they are! - silveryaspen, 2009-03-13: 19:03:00
Debtedly a great word! - Nosila, 2009-03-13: 19:11:00
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Credaconst
Created by: kairi988
Pronunciation: Cred-a-const
Sentence: My mother's friend is a credeaconst...
Etymology: Someone that never uses cash.
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COMMENTS:
Idk... - kairi988, 2009-03-16: 13:42:00
oh nvr mind.. - kairi988, 2009-03-16: 13:43:00
Welcome. This was a good start! - silveryaspen, 2009-03-18: 12:35:00
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Ecashified
Created by: rombus
Pronunciation: eee cash if ide
Sentence: Dorothy had recently become ecashified. If she could not use her computer to pay for it, she did not buy it.
Etymology: e(electronic) and cash and suffix (fied) Also play on word classified
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COMMENTS:
Good word! more people need to be Ecashified so they do not spend unwisely :) - abrakadeborah, 2009-03-14: 19:11:00
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Debitutante
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: deb it tu tant
Sentence: Deb was about to launch herself into high society in the hope of meeting an eligible young man, from an equal or better income bracket. Her mother, Mrs. Harry Bottoms Pincher III, of Fifth Avenue, Palm Beach and the Cayman Islands (or Penny, as her society chums and former chorus line peers knew her), had spared no expense in decking out the lovely Deb in a Dior gown and Tiffany jewels for the glittering soiree. Being refined as she was, Penny, had taught young Deb that La Creme de la Societe, to which they belonged, never touched vulgar cash themselves. Why, that was why one employed servants and lawyers. No, Penny had taught young Deb that it was classier to become a Debitutante and carry her boundless debit card with her at all times. It was safer than carrying cash and afterall,it was better to Heir on the side of caution...
Etymology: Debutante (a young woman making her debut into society) & Debit (a card which allows you to pay for goods directly from your own bank account; an accounting entry acknowledging sums that are owing)
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COMMENTS:
Hahahaha....VERY interesting approach!
Sometimes i worry about you, Nosie!
:) - metrohumanx, 2009-03-13: 01:46:00
Thanks, I think, metro...sometimes I worry about you,too, but for different reasons...Cheers! - Nosila, 2009-03-13: 01:54:00
I busted out LAUGHING when I saw Deb! Oh LAWD! I love you all! LOL! - abrakadeborah, 2009-03-13: 01:59:00
When you're chewing on life's gristle- Don't worry...give a whistle!
Always look on the sunny side of life. - metrohumanx, 2009-03-13: 02:09:00
Thank you Nosila :) You are too funny! I'm Cinderfreakinrella on Metrohumanx I'll be Sendherafreakinfella on yours :) - abrakadeborah, 2009-03-13: 02:37:00
hehehe - galwaywegian, 2009-03-13: 04:31:00
Wait until Deb and her mom Penny meet Max Out! Bank up the votes for this one! - silveryaspen, 2009-03-13: 09:42:00
Very entertaining! - kateinkorea, 2009-03-14: 02:26:00
Thanks Nosila,I voted for this word of yours :) You're hilarious! - abrakadeborah, 2009-03-14: 19:19:00
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Creditz
Created by: karenanne
Pronunciation: KREH dits
Sentence: Merry Spinder loves to buy everything on credit and has developed an elaborate system of rationalization for this habit. She is such a creditz that she reasons that she is actually making money doing this, because while the credit card company charges 8% interest on what she owes, the money that's sitting in her mutual fund earning interest is supposedly making more than that. Except she forgot that the stock market hasn't been doing too well lately, and, oh yeah, paying $39 late fees isn't helping her "make money" either. This is the same woman who in college thought that if she still had checks in her checkbook, that meant there was still money in the account!
Etymology: credit + ditz
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COMMENTS:
Sadly, she ain't the only creditz around... - Nosila, 2010-09-24: 23:55:00
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Snubbrass
Created by: petaj
Pronunciation: snub-bra-ss
Sentence: Snodgrass, had avoided carrying cash for many years, when in his early childhood he contracted a weird flesh eating disease from some money exchanged in a dirty fish market. Now as he handed, with his skeletal-looking fingers, a debit card to his young son he was shocked when the boy asked. "Dad, why do all the kids at school call me a snubbrass?"
Etymology: snub (avoid) + brass (sl. for coins)
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COMMENTS:
In the illustration, Snodgrass's skeletal fingers are cleverly concealed in fleshy prosthetic gloves. - petaj, 2009-03-13: 06:02:00
guess they aren't penny pinchers! Very clever create! - silveryaspen, 2009-03-13: 10:03:00
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Comments:
Today's definition was suggested by silveryaspen. Thank you silveryaspen. ~ James
Today's definition was suggested by silveryaspen. Thank you silveryaspen. ~ James