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'I'm clean! Clean as a needle!'

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

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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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Protestosterone

petaj

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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Hi

Created by: lidia

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Shinplenimple

Created by: FreakinDuh

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Roidrangel

Created by: KristinA

Pronunciation: royd-range-L

Sentence: "Roidrangel" is to Major League Baseball, as "I did not have sexual relations with that woman," is to The White House.

Etymology: roidrage (side effect of steroids) + angel (to act innocent)

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COMMENTS:

petaj You could add wrangle as well for the argument over the charges. - petaj, 2007-07-27: 08:14:00

And the "hypo" portion of "hypotenuse". - Kyoti, 2007-07-27: 11:02:00

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Refutalete

Created by: mdmquincy

Pronunciation: re-fyoo-ta-leet

Sentence: Although the tests affirmed the world's suspicions, the refutalete held fast to his disavowal of wrongdoing.

Etymology: refute + athlete with a nice sound connection to the word elite.

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Increphedralous

Created by: Kyoti

Pronunciation: In-creh-feh-druh-luss

Sentence: Buzz was just as astonished as anyone when he threw his javelin right out of the stadium, but was full of increphedralous indignation when people began to imply he was somehow abusing performance-enhancing substances.

Etymology: Incredulous + ephedra

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you must admit that it was an increphedrable distance - Jabberwocky, 2007-07-27: 12:23:00

The International Athletics Ephederation is conducting an internal investigation to get to the bottoms of these ephedreadful allegations. - Kyoti, 2007-07-27: 16:33:00

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Dopethical

Created by: OZZIEBOB

Pronunciation: dope+ eth +IK + cal

Sentence: His dopethical drivel fooled no-one this time. On too many occasions in the past his doperfidy had tarnished the reputation of the sport and all who participated in it. However, this time all could see clearly that he was nothing more than a dopelethic doperat, a pathetic liar and cheat, now banned from the sport for life.

Etymology: Dope + ethical: Moral principles(feigned)-regarding the use of dope/ drugs).

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that could be construed as a hypodopethical statement - Jabberwocky, 2007-07-27: 11:35:00

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Stareroids

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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Liareenass

Created by: dancerxoxox

Pronunciation: liar/een/ass

Sentence: I tested him. He was in total liareenass. He wouldn't admit it

Etymology: Liar and ass LOl

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Barryjuice

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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Erkimclean

Created by: bigk3452

Pronunciation: erk-im-clean

Sentence: When the athlete was asked if he was clean in the Tour De France, he replied: "Erkimclean"

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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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Banshock

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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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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Bandrugedeinal

pegpig123

Created by: pegpig123

Pronunciation: Ban-drug-denial

Sentence: I was just riding my bike ans stopped to take a drink of water then Dr. Riley came up to me and took a needle and did bandrugedenial on me! Oh I am going to get her now just wait!

Etymology: It is an action.

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COMMENTS:

pegpig123 I really hope this wins - pegpig123, 2007-07-28: 23:00:00

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Prinsesa

Created by: prinsesa200

Pronunciation: stars

Sentence: stars

Etymology: stars

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Sterannoyed

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

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Jahumby

Created by: Rjxxx

Pronunciation: Ja-hum-bay

Sentence: That is a lot of jahumby

Etymology: nonsense,rubbish

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Bess Wurd Oot =D xx - Rjxxx, 2007-07-28: 13:17:00

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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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Dopine

Created by: rikboyee

Pronunciation: doe-pine

Sentence: even though he was guilty he still intended to head out to that press conference and dopine like crazy

Etymology: dope, opine, pine

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good word - Jabberwocky, 2007-07-27: 14:40:00

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Jocklamation

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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Shonial

Created by: pinkpearls94

Pronunciation: shanile

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

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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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Comments:

Jabberwocky - 2007-07-27: 10:48:00
I'm trying to figure out if it's Andy Warhol or Annie Lennox giving the injection

KristinA - 2007-07-27: 14:11:00
I was thinking Bowie.

ziggy41 - 2007-07-28: 01:34:00
Ellen Degeneres was my first guess.

Kyoti - 2007-07-29: 10:45:00
Anne Heche fools everyone yet again.