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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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Lootboot

Created by: lauramy

Pronunciation: loot-boot

Sentence: That high class snoot gave me the lootboot.

Etymology: loot (money) + boot (kicked out)

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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

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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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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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Overtwotimer

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Created by: artr

Pronunciation: ōvərtutaɪmər

Sentence: Every time Tim tried works extra hours to get ahead, life becomes an overtwotimer. Some kind of monetary crisis will jump up to put him further behind.

Etymology: overtime (time worked beyond one’s scheduled working hours) + two-timer (deceive or be unfaithful to a lover or spouse)

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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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Paininthecash

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Created by: artr

Pronunciation: pāninðəkash

Sentence: Buck worked at a job he hated his entire adult life for the promise of a comfortable retirement. Now that he is nearing that time, all the recession has in store for him is a paininthecash.

Etymology: A play off of \"pain in the ass\"

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Mutualfundimentia

Created by: toadstool57

Pronunciation: mU-tual-fun-dE-men-sha

Sentence: Jill suffers from mutualfundimentia after she to sacraficed her all to get David's affection, only to be snubbed.

Etymology: mutual fund/ dementia

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COMMENTS:

plus *fundamental* - nice word! - Alchemist, 2007-02-02: 09:17:00

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Sacreficerier

Created by: nicora

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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

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