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DEFINITION: v. To sacrifice your health, your family, and even a few friends to money, only to discover that money doesn't like you. n. A sacrifice made for money that goes unrewarded.
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Souldout
Created by: rikboyee
Pronunciation: sold-out
Sentence: no-one was returning his calls, he had nowhere to sleep and his liver was beyond repair...if only he hadn't completely souldout
Etymology: soul, sold out
Unmidasize
Created by: maxxy
Pronunciation: uhn-MY-dah-size
Sentence: Jim grew up in a typical middle-class home, comfortable enough, but his post-college determination to make a killing in hog futures unmidasized his life.
Etymology: un, prefix of reversal + Midas, whose touch turned everything to gold + ize, verb ending
Cacashtrophy
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: ka kash tra fee
Sentence: His life was a cacastrophy, he felt as he walked around dollerously
Etymology: catastrophy, cash
Cashtrate
Created by: Koekbroer
Pronunciation: cash-trait
Sentence: "Looks like Doug cashtrated himself. He risked everything on that stock and lost."
Etymology: cash + castrate
Macbethen
Created by: ErWenn
Pronunciation: /"m&k-'beth-&n/
Sentence: After MacBethening his way from Thane of Glamis to Thane of Cawdor to King of Scotland, MacBeth was killed by a man who wasn't born and a forest.
Etymology: From Shakespeare's play _MacBeth_
Profittear
Created by: CharlieB
Pronunciation: prof-i-tār
Sentence: Working to the detriment of one’s home life is the classic sign of a profittear.
Etymology: Profit (gain resulting from use of capital) + tear (to cause pain, bitterness)
Lucrotomy
Created by: erasmus
Pronunciation: loo krot ah mee
Sentence: it was worse than addiction it was lucrotomy.
Etymology: from lucre and surgically removing something you need.
Ebinezerscrewed
Created by: metrohumanx
Pronunciation: EBB-uh-knee-zur-SCREW-d
Sentence: I cast my lot with Madoff- I was a greedy dude. but my investments were consumed... I'm EBINEZERSCREWED! God bless us all- including Tiny Tim.
Etymology: The Dikkens, you say! (Charles Dikkens, the famous DUTCH author)
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COMMENTS:
More fun and a cool game:
http://sodaplay.com/creators/soda/items/constructor - metrohumanx, 2009-09-02: 00:33:00
Nice tie-in. - artr, 2009-09-02: 06:16:00
Hum bug(ger)! - Nosila, 2009-09-02: 12:52:00
hahaha fun word! - mweinmann, 2009-09-03: 08:02:00
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Masolover
Created by: josje
Pronunciation: maso lover
Sentence: please reject me i´m a masolover
Etymology: mosochist and lover