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'Sorry, but you're not my type'

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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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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Cashifice

Created by: BMott

Pronunciation: Kash - e - fise

Sentence: Lucy made the ultimate cashifice when she chose new earrings over helping out her friend Julie with rent money.

Etymology: Cash - Money, finances, dough fice - from sacrifice

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COMMENTS:

Great! Also sounds a bit like cash-orifice... - wordmeister, 2007-02-02: 13:25:00

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Coinitis

Created by: Madamemojo

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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.

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Mammonogamy

Created by: galwaywegian

Pronunciation: mam mon og ummy

Sentence: having recieved his fifteenth brush off in as many weeks, Bill decided to end his mammonogamous ways and reduce the bulge in his pocket.

Etymology: mammon and monogamy

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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

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Sacrimoney

Created by: jbricandy

Pronunciation: Sa-cri-money

Sentence: He made sacrimoney. He deceived his friends and still failed to find the money.

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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

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Mutualfundimentia

Created by: toadstool57

Pronunciation: mU-tual-fun-dE-men-sha

Sentence: Jill suffers from mutualfundimentia after she to sacraficed her all to get David's affection, only to be snubbed.

Etymology: mutual fund/ dementia

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COMMENTS:

plus *fundamental* - nice word! - Alchemist, 2007-02-02: 09:17:00

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Wadfraud

Created by: quippingqueen

Pronunciation: wod/frod

Sentence: A case of wadfraud involving far too many misbegotten miracles he hadn't expected left him with an inability to worship the Almighty Dollar as he had in the past.

Etymology: wad + fraud

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