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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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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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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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Trifle

Created by: Headcrab

Pronunciation: trile

Sentence: He trifled with oil investments before being killed by a moustached oil baron. |-> "I hope that this coffee shop doesn't become a trifle."

Etymology: Old English: trifle. The Old English' usage of the word was used sarcastically when explaining a short lived venture in the past.

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COMMENTS:

Hopefully this verbotomic isn't a mere trifle. - Headcrab, 2012-06-09: 05:31:00

I hope that this coffee shop doesn't become a trifle - Headcrab, 2012-06-09: 05:33:00

Oops. Delete... - Headcrab, 2012-06-09: 05:33:00

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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).

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Missedfortunate

Created by: Mustang

Pronunciation: misd-ˈfor-chuh-net

Sentence: Like all his past endeavors Clyde's latest pursuit of a killing in the market fell flat, and he remains broke, friendless and chronically missedfortunate.

Etymology: Blend of missed and fortunate.

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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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Coinitis

Created by: Madamemojo

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Econowhered

Created by: ahwinters

Pronunciation: echo + know + whered

Sentence: She gave up all of her friends for that hihg-paying job that left her econowhered.

Etymology: economics + nowhere

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Bucked

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Created by: artr

Pronunciation: buhkt

Sentence: Alan wanted so much to get ahead on his bills. He just wanted to be able to take his girlfriend out to a nice dinner without having to skip meals for the rest of the week so he jumped at the chance to work overtime. He upset his mother by cancelling their weekly get together and majorly annoyed his roommate who was non-too-happy about walking his dog to pull an over-nighter. When he went to his car in the morning to retrieve a change of clothes, he found a ticket, whose fine exceeded all the extra cash he had just earned. BUCKED AGAIN!

Etymology: buck (money) + "another word that rhymes with buck" (screwed)

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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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