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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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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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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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Good one! - BMott, 2007-02-02: 11:38:00

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Cashtrate

Created by: Koekbroer

Pronunciation: cash-trait

Sentence: "Looks like Doug cashtrated himself. He risked everything on that stock and lost."

Etymology: cash + castrate

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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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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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Poordom

Created by: leeleefmu

Pronunciation: poor -dumb

Sentence:

Etymology:

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Buckbilledplatypus

Created by: porsche

Pronunciation: buk/bid/plt/i/pus

Sentence: After years of worshiping the almighty dollar he found he had created a buckbilledplatypus that kept chasing him around and biting his ass

Etymology: duck-billed platypus + buck (dollar)

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COMMENTS:

Sounds like a platinum credit card. - wordmeister, 2007-02-02: 10:42:00

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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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Fauxriche

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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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Cashimize

Created by: Windyo

Pronunciation: cah-i-mize

Sentence: He endureded another cashimze

Etymology: cash + victimize

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