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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.
Verboticisms
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Hammerdimed
Created by: gabngar
Pronunciation:
Sentence: Dan had a fortune, but ended broke aster he was hammerdimed.
Etymology: Hammertime-From the famous song "Can't touch this" by M.C. Hammer, who had a fortune but lost it all. Dime- a ten cent coin in the U.S.
Sacrifiscal
Created by: mweinmann
Pronunciation: sak - re - fisk - cal
Sentence: Judd felt like the sacrifiscal lamb being led to slaughter. He had put all of his time and resources into accumulating enough money to keeping up with the Joneses and then the Joneses moved away.
Etymology: sacrificial, fiscal
Bucksflat
Created by: Carla
Pronunciation: buks-flat
Sentence: The enjoyment he derived from each successful investment appeared to be negatively correlated with his increasing wealth. By the time he realised this, his wife had already left, unable to compete with the FTSE 100 for his affections. The vastest magnum of champagne could not disguise the fact he had a serious case of bucksflat.
Etymology: bucks fizz + flat
Lootboot
Created by: lauramy
Pronunciation: loot-boot
Sentence: That high class snoot gave me the lootboot.
Etymology: loot (money) + boot (kicked out)
Sacrifiscalamb
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: sak rif is kal lam
Sentence: Like a born again zealot, she had pursued her selling pyramid like a religion and forsook her friends, her family and her health to acquire the top-rated status and finer things of life...her mansion, expensive cars, exotic trips and designer attire. But it was lonely counting all that money on your own. Her profit had become her prophet. On the altar of high consumerism, she had become a sacrifiscalamb.
Etymology: Sacrificial Lamb (someone or something which is given to people in authority and which is expected to be harmed or destroyed, especially in order to prevent other people or things from being harmed or destroyed) & Fiscal (involving financial matters)
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COMMENTS:
baaad! - galwaywegian, 2011-01-12: 03:58:00
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Paininthecash
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: pāninðəkash
Sentence: Buck worked at a job he hated his entire adult life for the promise of a comfortable retirement. Now that he is nearing that time, all the recession has in store for him is a paininthecash.
Etymology: A play off of \"pain in the ass\"
Sacrifunk
Created by: jedijawa
Pronunciation: sack-ri-funk
Sentence: Bill was in a sacrifunk after giving up everything only to find that he had lost everything by giving it up.
Etymology: sacrifice + funk
Autocashtrate
Created by: dwingillinois
Pronunciation: ah' toh KASH trayt
Sentence: While $1,000,000 was a lot of money, I had to consider if it would be worth it to potentially autocashtrate myself.
Etymology: auto (self) + cash (money) + castrate (ouch!)
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COMMENTS:
Good one! - BMott, 2007-02-02: 11:38:00
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Fauxriche
Created by: petaj
Pronunciation: fo-reesh
Sentence: Carla was a member of the new fauxriche. She had not been true to her friends in her failed quest for wealth and now found herself alone and poor.
Etymology: faux (false) + riche (rich)
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COMMENTS:
All those sacrifces and nothing? I think Carla has it worse than Jim... - wordmeister, 2007-02-02: 10:37:00
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Cashtrate
Created by: sodium
Pronunciation: kash-strait
Sentence: Wallace cashtrated himself when he started working 80 hours a week -- he found that money was no good without someone to spend it with.
Etymology: Cash + castrate
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COMMENTS:
Good stuff, sounds fitting painful. - Bulletchewer, 2007-02-02: 10:30:00
*fittingly Sorry, 'tis Friday. - Bulletchewer, 2007-02-02: 10:31:00
Viciously excellent - wordmeister, 2007-02-02: 10:33:00
made for a man - but I like it too (Irish accent optional) - Jabberwocky, 2007-02-02: 11:27:00
Nice one! - BMott, 2007-02-02: 13:28:00
Best word of the day! Says it all in a quick slicing manner!! Rich and a high voice to join the choir!!! - Stevenson0, 2007-02-02: 15:54:00
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