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DEFINITION: n., A type of guilt associated with a lapse in brand loyalty; especially when caught surreptitiously zipping the "wrong" coffee by your barista "friend". v. To secretly switch brands.
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Genheretic
Created by: mweinmann
Pronunciation: jen - hayr - eh - tik
Sentence: Lila felt like a genheretic as she sipped on her Sam's Club coffee disguised by one of the Starbuck's Cups that she had saved for just this occasion.
Etymology: generic, heretic (characterized by departure from accepted beliefs or standards)
Straytron
Created by: Mrgoodtimes
Pronunciation: Strey-truhn
Sentence: Captain Felipe was having the best day of his life, booming his stereo while speeding up and down main street in his new Honda. Unfortunately it was right in front of his Mercury Sable dealer Stephan, he felt like such a straytron.
Etymology: Stray - Patron, sounds like patron
Betrade
Created by: petaj
Pronunciation: exactly like betrayed
Sentence: Mac Iato was roasted for his betradal of his brother's coffee shop. Not only was he caught sipping in the shop over the road, he announced in the press that the grind of his job resulted in long black moods which were expressoed in bursts of short tamper and lattely he'd bean bitter about his decision to join the Cappuchins.
Etymology: betray + trade(as in trademark)
Locamochashun
Created by: marglark
Pronunciation: lowka-moka-shun
Sentence: she went through locamochashun when the was cought red branded(other word choice).
Etymology: loca(crazy in spanish) + mocha + shun + locomotion(moving on)
Infranchised
Created by: rikboyee
Pronunciation: in-fran-chiyzd
Sentence: as she skulked out of starbucks with her ridiculously large sweet warm beveridge she was feeling incredibly infranchised
Etymology: in, franchise, disenfranchised
Brandslipsip
Created by: OZZIEBOB
Pronunciation: brand-slip-sip
Sentence: Bob was brandesultory: a new brand a day was his way. When drinking coffee it had to be a sneaky brandslipsip; for sunscreen a shifty brandslipslop. But during times of quiet reflection it was a brandslip-guilt-trip.
Etymology: "brand" & "slip" (to fall into mistake, error, to err, sin)& "sip."
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COMMENTS:
and sometimes, if he was indecisive, he did a brandslipflipflop - Jabberwocky, 2007-09-19: 15:08:00
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Americanogigolo
Created by: Jabberwocky
Pronunciation: a/mare/i/kano/jig/oh/low
Sentence: He was just buying espressos for the guys on the desk but the barista who already had his favourite americano brewing made him experience an acute attack of americanogigolo.
Etymology: americano + American Gigolo (of Richard Gere fame)
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COMMENTS:
More memories of Beverley Hills - OZZIEBOB, 2008-08-22: 05:18:00
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Labelshame
Created by: DrWebsterIII
Pronunciation: la"bel - sha*m
Sentence: Maxine tried to sneak past the mean girls outside of The Gap as she felt labelshamed with her Forever 21 bag:(
Etymology: label (an identifying brand) + shame (painful feeling having lost the respect of others
Perkotraitor
Created by: mweinmann
Pronunciation: purk - ooo - tray - tore
Sentence: Honey felt like a peerkotraitor. Ben bought her a gift bag of Starbucks coffee but each morning, she brewed a fresh pot of Folgers and poured it in the "Starbucks" mug. She didn't know how to tell him that she liked cheap coffee better.
Etymology: Perkolator - device used to brew coffee or a person who brews it + traitor - someone who is not loyal and betrays a cause or trust.
Comments:
Today's definition was suggested by remistram. Thank you remistram! ~ James
Today's definition was suggested by remistram. Thank you remistram. ~ James
love the etymology
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