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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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Cashjacked

Created by: Sed8ed

Pronunciation: cash-jack-t

Sentence: He knew he'd become cashjacked when his business went belly up, and none of his friends knew his number anymore.

Etymology:

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Profeiture

Created by: Nosila

Pronunciation: pro fay tchur

Sentence: Buck Chaser had always gone after Dame Fortune and sacrificed everything to be her Real love. He risked profeiture to spend the rest of his days with the lovely Ms. Money. He always had a Yen to have her and he was so Rand-y,he would Lira after her. Finally she had to confront him: "Buck, Let me be Franc with you...Euro becoming a Zloty and a Drachma and I want to Krone you with so many Pounds they will leave a Mark on you. Can't you see Cents? In my opinion, we have a Peso-mistic future together. If you don't Peseta off soon, I will have Robert Dinero take your neck and Ringgit and have you Guildered, before he throws you on the Ruble heap! Yuan to know the Buck stops here!"

Etymology: Profit (the excess of revenues over outlays in a given period of time (including depreciation and other non-cash expenses) & Forfeiture (the act of losing or surrendering something as a penalty for a mistake or fault or failure to perform etc.)

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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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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

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Cashimize

Created by: Windyo

Pronunciation: cah-i-mize

Sentence: He endureded another cashimze

Etymology: cash + victimize

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Kennethlaid

Created by: purpleartichokes

Pronunciation: ken-eth-lade

Sentence: Bob had it all - the house, the yacht, the cars, the girls, but when a once-close friend sued him for breach of contract, he found himself kennethlaid and penniless.

Etymology: Kennth Lay - infamous, corrupt CEO of Enron; laid - have sex with, but not in a good way

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COMMENTS:

Good! It's tough being "the smartest guy in the room", when you're also broke... - wordmeister, 2007-02-02: 11:01:00

In my personal opinion, he suffered from monerrhea, and should have sought professional help from psychiatrists instead of accountants. - purpleartichokes, 2007-02-02: 18:17:00

I don't get it. At all. - BMott, 2007-02-06: 03:04:00

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Mammonerd

Created by: w5lf9s

Pronunciation: ma.men.urd

Sentence: It was when everyone had turned away and noone returned his calls that he finally realized that he had become a mammonerd

Etymology: from "mammon"- wealth regarded as an evil influence and "nerd" - a pejorative applied to people with an above-average IQ and few gifts at small talk and common social rituals

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Pennilynch

Created by: wordmeister

Pronunciation: pen/nE/linch

Sentence: Michael said that he wanted to be the next Donald Trump. His friends said "Why? That sounds stupid...", so he fired them. And he never gave up on his dream. Unfortunately, he never made it either... He just pennilynched himself.

Etymology: penny+ lynch/pinch

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COMMENTS:

Nice one! - BMott, 2007-02-02: 11:37:00

great word - Jabberwocky, 2007-02-02: 12:33:00

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