Verboticisms

Created by: Jabberwocky

Pronunciation: jok/la/may/shun

Sentence: Who me? Never! is the universal jocklamation of the professional athlete.

Etymology: jock + proclamation + declaration

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I don't know why this makes me think of Saran Wrap and Valetine's day. ;)) - Kyoti, 2007-07-27: 11:07:00

Darned silent "n". - Kyoti, 2007-07-27: 11:07:00

saran wrap? Valentine's Day? perhaps you're confusing this with premature ejockulation - I think there's an injockulation for that - Jabberwocky, 2007-07-27: 12:28:00

Nope, my mistake... I was thinking of jocklamination. - Kyoti, 2007-07-27: 16:35:00

And not my long-suffering bane, jocklamentation. - Kyoti, 2007-07-27: 16:36:00

Or the halloween ornamental jock-O-lantern. - Kyoti, 2007-07-27: 16:37:00

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Created by: tatterdemalion

Pronunciation: STAYR-roids

Sentence: Overdosing on stareroids has proven to be vocational suicide for star athletes, however, scientists have not yet discovered whether the effects of this treatment are beneficial or deleterious for society in general.

Etymology: stare + steroids

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Created by: remistram

Pronunciation: doh-pewt

Sentence: After much successful dopute, he realised that retiring from the sport was inevitable and that all the days of denying his real passion for competitive scrabble were coming to an end.

Etymology: dope + dispute

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Created by: lidia

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Created by: kabloozie

Pronunciation: Bare-e-joos

Sentence: After he failed the drug test, Doug launched into a barryjuice, and claimed his detractors spiked his Gatorade.

Etymology: Barry Bonds + juice (slang for 'roids)

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Created by: mplsbohemian

Pronunciation: STEHR-uh-noid

Sentence: Alex wept as he saw the sterannoyed look of his favourite cyclist looking back at him from the television screen.

Etymology: steroid + annoyed

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COMMENTS:

poor Alex never gets a break - Jabberwocky, 2007-07-27: 12:43:00

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Created by: ziggy41

Pronunciation: Rep-few-tay-shun

Sentence: His general repfutation persisted of "What... uh... steroids? ... LOOK! A BASEBALL PLAYER!!"

Etymology: Reputation (a "good name", of, say, an athlete) + refutation (denial)

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Created by: pinkpearls94

Pronunciation: shanile

Sentence: I was in shonial after the doctors found my banned drugs.

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Created by: riomarde

Pronunciation: Ban-shock

Sentence: After the Olympian cyclist was caught using illegal performance enhancers he released a statement expressing his banshock and denial.

Etymology: Banned substances... ban + shock... feigned or genuine response to allegations of the athlete’s use of banned substances.

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Created by: petaj

Pronunciation: pro-test-ost-err-own

Sentence: Rastus launched into his protestosterone when he first heard the charges against him. Unfortunately he had not rehearsed adequately.

Etymology: protest (one's innocence) + testosterone (abnormally high levels being banned in elite sports)

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COMMENTS:

Thus the subsequent testostermoan. - purpleartichokes, 2007-07-27: 09:15:00

and then the testostergroan - Jabberwocky, 2007-07-27: 10:46:00

And the resulting testostergnome. - Kyoti, 2007-07-27: 11:04:00

too true - Dopey is one of the seven dwarfs, so what does the snow in Snow White really refer to - Jabberwocky, 2007-07-27: 12:20:00

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