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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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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_
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
Cashtrate
Created by: Koekbroer
Pronunciation: cash-trait
Sentence: "Looks like Doug cashtrated himself. He risked everything on that stock and lost."
Etymology: cash + castrate
Selfcapitate
Created by: Bulletchewer
Pronunciation: self-kap-i-tayte
Sentence: The supermodel chose to selfcapitate, leaving her with nothing; but at least she was still skinnier than skin itself.
Etymology: From "self", "capital" (money) and "decapitate" (removal of the head).
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
Cashimize
Created by: Windyo
Pronunciation: cah-i-mize
Sentence: He endureded another cashimze
Etymology: cash + victimize
Forfeitune
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: for fet tyoon
Sentence: When Billy lost the lovely Miranda to a wealthier man, he soon discovered that old Beatles' forfeitune, "Can't Buy Me Love..."
Etymology: Forfeit (surrender;sacrifice something) & Fortune (money;a large amount of wealth or prosperity)
Mephistophelose
Created by: kyotonils
Pronunciation: meh•fuh•staw'•fuh•lews'
Sentence: All he can think about is making money, but a mephistopheloser like him is bound to end up chasing his tail.
Etymology: From Faust's devil, Mephistopheles
Billbusting
Created by: Jabberwocky
Pronunciation: bill/bus/ting
Sentence: All decades of billbusting got him was a solitary life and an empty sac (oops sack)
Etymology: ball busting + bill (as in dollar bill)
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COMMENTS:
Well, at least he emptied his sac... - wordmeister, 2007-02-02: 11:36:00
ha ha - Jabberwocky, 2007-02-02: 12:41:00
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