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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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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
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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COMMENTS:
that could be construed as a hypodopethical statement - Jabberwocky, 2007-07-27: 11:35:00
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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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COMMENTS:
poor Alex never gets a break - Jabberwocky, 2007-07-27: 12:43:00
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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
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.
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:
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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Fairoied
Created by: missmurder
Pronunciation: fair-oid
Sentence: When the biker farted, they found out he was high on fairoid.
Etymology: fart-steroid
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)
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
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.