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'But that wasn't cheating!'

DEFINITION: v. To change the dates, times or sequence of past events, in order to put a better perspective on your current situation. n. An historical date which has been "adjusted" to fit present needs.

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Spinchronise

Created by: mickey666

Pronunciation: spin - kron - eyes

Sentence: Tont Blair's capacity to spinchronise was demonstrated as he took the credit for a successful outcome to the First World war

Etymology: spin - to manipulate information for personal gain and chronise from the greek for time

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Revisiondate

Created by: ahwinters

Pronunciation: rhee-viz-shun-dayt

Sentence: It was easy to revisiondate the conception of their oldest child to make it seem like he was truely legitimate, since he was born 8 months after they were married.

Etymology: revision + date

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Retroschedule

Created by: sodium

Pronunciation: ret-row-skedj-yool

Sentence: To bypass all that red tape, Homer simply retroscheduled his date of birth.

Etymology: retro = past + schedule

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Optichronate

Created by: chofu67

Pronunciation: op tee crow nate

Sentence: With a little optichronation of the postage meter, we were able to post mark our payment so that they appeared to be on time.

Etymology: Optimize + chronos (time)

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Chronipulation

Created by: smokey

Pronunciation: kro-nip-you-la-shun

Sentence: I'm sure Tom is lying when he says he passed the bar exam before starting to practice law - he is very chronipulative.

Etymology: Chronology + manipulate

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Retroflirt

Created by: Mustang

Pronunciation: ret-ro-flert

Sentence: Though he knew better, Rodney hoped his audacious claim to have changed their marriage date would convince Lou Anne that it was ok for him to retroflirt.

Etymology: Retro - go back in time, flirt - have romantic interludes with women

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Tarrantinizing

Created by: Carljoyce

Pronunciation:

Sentence: After a whirlwind six months of backpacking through Europe, Quetin tarrantinized his journey to better understand how he changed.

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COMMENTS:

Exactly, it's a movie.... I just can't figure out when it started. - wordmeister, 2007-01-31: 14:07:00

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Teetertautological

Created by: quippingqueen

Pronunciation: tee/ter/tot/o/log/i/cal

Sentence: He knew his teetertautological technique would put a better spin on exactly why they got married in the first place.

Etymology: teeter (as in vacillate) + tautological (true by virtue of its logical form alone)

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nice word! - Alchemist, 2007-01-31: 17:35:00

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Seqlieging

Created by: pandafever

Pronunciation: seek-ly-jing

Sentence: All it took was a little bit of seqlieging to fool the history professor.

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Timetabull

Created by: purpleartichokes

Pronunciation: TIMEtable

Sentence: When profusely apologizing for being late didn't cut it, Bob tried to timetabull the client into thinking that it was she who was actually early, as their company had switched over to New Guinea Standard Time.

Etymology: timetable, bullsh*t

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Comments:

allwise - 2007-01-31: 02:00:00
I think you'll win this one easy!

wordmeister - 2007-01-31: 10:42:00
Wow, "R" is the letter of the day!