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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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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).
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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Bucked
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)
Paininthecash
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\"
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
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.
Masolover
Created by: josje
Pronunciation: maso lover
Sentence: please reject me i´m a masolover
Etymology: mosochist and lover
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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Faustify
Created by: mickey666
Pronunciation: fowstifi
Sentence: The pursuit of wealth is all I crave. I must faustify.
Etymology: From Christopher Marlowe's creation, Doctor Faustus.
Lootboot
Created by: lauramy
Pronunciation: loot-boot
Sentence: That high class snoot gave me the lootboot.
Etymology: loot (money) + boot (kicked out)