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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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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
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)
Jahumby
Created by: Rjxxx
Pronunciation: Ja-hum-bay
Sentence: That is a lot of jahumby
Etymology: nonsense,rubbish
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COMMENTS:
Bess Wurd Oot =D xx - Rjxxx, 2007-07-28: 13:17:00
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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:
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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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.
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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Shonial
Created by: pinkpearls94
Pronunciation: shanile
Sentence: I was in shonial after the doctors found my banned drugs.
Etymology:
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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COMMENTS:
good word - Jabberwocky, 2007-07-27: 14:40:00
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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
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.