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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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Visaonary
Created by: Jabberwocky
Pronunciation: Vee/za/on/ar/ee
Sentence: Sam was considered a visaonary who heralded a world full of plastic and credit.
Etymology: Visa + visionary
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COMMENTS:
master(ard)ful! - galwaywegian, 2009-03-13: 08:15:00
love the implied 'now you see it, now you don't' by incorporating visionary in your etymology. Excellent create. - silveryaspen, 2009-03-13: 09:52:00
Brief, concise and to the point. Excellent word. - Mustang, 2009-03-14: 00:36:00
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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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COMMENTS:
Sadly, she ain't the only creditz around... - Nosila, 2010-09-24: 23:55:00
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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).
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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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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Eragan
Created by: readerwriter
Pronunciation: air-a-gan
Sentence: Started off as ERAGONE, as I thought Reagan was spelled Reagon...after realizing I was wrong, I switched to ERAGAN, a pitiful substitute...How about ERAGAN, the combination Debit and Scratch N Sniff card offered by First Polymer Bank?
Etymology: A poor acronym for REAGAN, the President of the US, who arrived in DC for his first term in 1980 and was reported to have said, when asked for cash instead of plastic, "I haven't used cash for years."
Dollarepsy
Created by: remistram
Pronunciation: daw-ler-epp-see
Sentence: Jim's dollarepsy was so severe that he ignored the $20 bill that he spotted on his neighbour's front lawn.
Etymology: dollar + epsy (as in affected by)
Nodough
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: nohdoh
Sentence: Chris read a report about the germs and drug residue that is often a part of paper money. At that point he declared his household to be a nodough zone. Now he's read an article about the danger of handling certain types of plastic. He's considering a switch to bartering if he can just verify the bacteria-free nature of chickens and goats. Good luck!
Etymology: no (dissent, denial, or refusal) + dough (money)
Comments:
Today's definition was suggested by silveryaspen. Thank you silveryaspen. ~ James
Today's definition was suggested by silveryaspen. Thank you silveryaspen. ~ James