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DEFINITION: The prescribed response of shock and denial that all world-class athletes follow when caught using banned drugs.

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Protestosterone

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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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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Illishit

Created by: purpleartichokes

Pronunciation: ill-ih-shit

Sentence: Seeing the blood tests come back with the testosterone levels of a 16-year old, he plunged into a state of illishit.

Etymology: illicit (drugs), and likely the first word that comes out of an athlete's mouth once they're found out.

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COMMENTS:

Good one! - remistram, 2007-07-27: 10:15:00

but everyone knew he was fullishit - Jabberwocky, 2007-07-27: 12:35:00

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Repfutation

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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Dopute

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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Fairoied

Created by: missmurder

Pronunciation: fair-oid

Sentence: When the biker farted, they found out he was high on fairoid.

Etymology: fart-steroid

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Awenial

Created by: Stevenson0

Pronunciation: awe/ni/al

Sentence: Henri was in total awenial about his alleged drug use. He told the press he was totally awepalled (shocked and horrified) to find out that the needles his coach was giving him were steroids and not vitamin B shots.

Etymology: awe + denial

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