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DEFINITION: n. The prescribed response of shock and denial that all world-class athletes follow when caught using banned drugs. v. To act shocked and deny guilt when accused of wrong-doing.
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Contrabandiction
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: kon tra ban dik shun
Sentence: When the IOC doctors drug-tested and failed the World Champion cyclist, he was in a state of contrabandiction. He'd paid out a lot for pills that turned out to be Midols. Some thought he traded in his bike for a menstrual cycle...
Etymology: Contraband (illegal substance sold or possessed) & Contradiction (deny the truth of;prove false)
Prevaricontraindication
Created by: Clayton
Pronunciation: proh-VAR-i-kon-truh-in-di-KEY-shuhn
Sentence: Barry was caught up in a moment of classic prevaricontraindication: just lie to the reporters and hopefully it will all go away. Except the sterility. And the shrunken testes. And the heart disease. And the liver failure.
Etymology: prevarication + contraindication
Ignoblivian
Created by: grasshopper
Pronunciation: Ig/no/bl/iv/ian
Sentence: The winner of the weight lifting competation stated that he was ignoblivian about any drugs that he was being accusd of using.
Etymology: Igno = Ignorant/ oblivian = oblivious Ignoblivian
Denyitol
Created by: wordmeister
Pronunciation: dee-nI-it-ol
Sentence: I take two tabs of denyitol and I'm fine
Etymology: deny + it+ all
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COMMENTS:
Also looks like Nytol. Good one! - purpleartichokes, 2007-05-23: 11:55:00
Does D. Nile use denyitol? - Stevenson0, 2007-05-23: 12:40:00
Yes, D. Nile does do denyitol. Especially when blunderstuck, and there's nothing he can do to blixit. Akerue! - wordmeister, 2007-05-23: 16:15:00
Very good. Must get a prescriptstun for that. - petaj, 2007-05-24: 03:05:00
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Drock
Created by: Rhyme79
Pronunciation: dr-oh-k
Sentence: Henry's facade of complete drock wasn't a surprise to his opponents.
Etymology: Amalgamation of 'drug' and 'shock'.
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COMMENTS:
Reminds me of dreck and crock. It sounds great. - Discoveria, 2012-09-19: 21:11:00
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Jabbergasted
Created by: rikboyee
Pronunciation: jab-err-gas-ted
Sentence: to suggest that i won that week of verbotomy due to the illegal use of anabolic dictionaroids...i have to tell you that leaves me absolutely jabbergasted
Etymology: jab, flabbergasted
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COMMENTS:
after the injection i had a bad case of thesaurarse.... - rikboyee, 2007-05-23: 02:45:00
They'll throw the book at you for that one! - pinwheel, 2007-05-23: 02:53:00
Something tells me you'll wocky away with this one. - purpleartichokes, 2007-05-23: 04:50:00
"Twas brillig, and the slithy toves Did gyre and gimble in the wabe" - hey - who's interrupting my morning mantra with such slander - Rikboyee - for evermore you will be known to me as Rikbadboyee!! - Jabberwocky, 2007-05-23: 09:02:00
Oooo! You've been Jabbermockeyed! - purpleartichokes, 2007-05-23: 11:51:00
enough of your purpleartijokes - rikboyee, 2007-05-23: 18:00:00
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Nonedralone
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: nun dra lown
Sentence: He went into the press dispute and gave a very very very energetic version of the nonedralone defense.
Etymology: nandralone and none
Declifloored
Created by: angelheart
Pronunciation: Dec-li-floored
Sentence: "I'm absolutely declifloored that you would think that of me"
Etymology: decli-from the word deline/ floored-another meaning for shocked
Prescriptstun
Created by: petaj
Pronunciation: pre-SCRIP-stun
Sentence: Derek strode into the pretenssconference mistakenly confident that his prescriptstun would convince the world that he was clean.
Etymology: prescription (they always say it was prescribed for the flu) + script (used to rehearse for the press conference) + stun (shock)
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COMMENTS:
well done! (some would say too well done without some help, hmmmm) - galwaywegian, 2007-05-23: 07:01:00
good one petaj - Jabberwocky, 2007-05-23: 12:41:00
Right galwaywegian, I'll see you at the pretenssconference after I consult my spindoctor about this terrible flu I'm suffering. - petaj, 2007-05-23: 18:40:00
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Dopified
Created by: daisy
Pronunciation: doe-pi-fide
Sentence: Mr. Landis was dopified to learn that those bottles of steroid water could actually be detected.
Etymology:
Comments:
Some of the best Verboticisms were late showing up this morning, even though they had already entered the race. I categorically deny that this had anything to do with the use of stimulants. ~ James
Today's definition was suggested by wordmeister. Thank you wordmeister. ~ James