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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.

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Plasticscene

Created by: Nosila

Pronunciation: plas tik seen

Sentence: When Joey started school, he was familiar with the plasticscene, because his Dad had taught him all about credit cards. Imagine his surprise to find out he was meant to make a model out of it in Art class.

Etymology: Plastic (credit cards) & Scene (happening) & Wordplay on Plasticine (synthetic clay-like material used in schools for making models)

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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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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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Creddycad

Created by: fossean

Pronunciation: Credd-e-cad

Sentence: 'Who needs money?' thought Bob. 'I can just creddycad the landlord again.'

Etymology: Formed by contraction of credit, and cad (moral bankrupt).

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Robberdinero

Created by: Nosila

Pronunciation: rob ber dee ner o

Sentence: Robbie's Dad, Robert, hated touching cash. He thought the bills and coins were full of germs. Robbie and his friends nicknamed him robberdinero, because, to be franc, he had no yen to handle the filthy lucre. "Although you are a sterling character,You know euro-verdrawn at the bank?", his son reminded him. His father replied, "If yuan your allowance, you will have to get a debit card and make your mark on the world of finance." Robbie had a ruble-ation and went to pound on doors to get a job. His father is headed for the Loonie bin.

Etymology: Robber (a thief who steals from someone) & Dinero (informal terms for money) and a play on Robert DeNiro (actor...famous for the line, "Are you talking to me"???)

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COMMENTS:

Funny! That must have taken some thought! - karenanne, 2010-09-24: 08:05:00

It's just my two bits' worth... - Nosila, 2010-09-24: 23:57:00

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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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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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Sadly, she ain't the only creditz around... - Nosila, 2010-09-24: 23:55:00

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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)

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Cashstashunner

Created by: mweinmann

Pronunciation: cash + stash + shun + nur OR cash + stay + shun + nur

Sentence: Margo had never been neer a Cash Station. To her, it represented everything that she avoided.....lots of cash being dispensed and handled. She absolutely eschewed anything to do with coins, bills or green paper. She prided herself on never needing to handle cash. Her friends began to refer to her as a cashtashunner, both because she shunned cash stations and because she had never had a stash of cash in her life.

Etymology: Cash, Cash Station, Stash, Shun

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COMMENTS:

can't quit laughing over cash stations - good play on cashtration meaning to cut out the cash? Terrific last line! - silveryaspen, 2009-03-13: 10:08:00

Wow...never thought of cashtrashun....that would have also been a great word!!! - mweinmann, 2009-03-13: 10:39:00

would have never thought of it by myself and I like the way you spelled it better. Amazing how minds inspire minds here ... and laughter creates more laughter! - silveryaspen, 2009-03-13: 19:00:00

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