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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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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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Sacrimoney
Created by: jbricandy
Pronunciation: Sa-cri-money
Sentence: He made sacrimoney. He deceived his friends and still failed to find the money.
Etymology:
Jackjilted
Created by: Stevenson0
Pronunciation: jac/jil/ted
Sentence: He was totally jackjilted by the only thing he really ever cared for in his life.
Etymology: jack (slang for money) + jilted
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COMMENTS:
Poor Jack! Poor Jill... Things must of been tough for the whole family. - wordmeister, 2007-02-02: 11:11:00
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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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Cashimize
Created by: Windyo
Pronunciation: cah-i-mize
Sentence: He endureded another cashimze
Etymology: cash + victimize
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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Cacashtrophy
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: ka kash tra fee
Sentence: His life was a cacastrophy, he felt as he walked around dollerously
Etymology: catastrophy, cash
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
