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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.
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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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COMMENTS:
Good one! - BMott, 2007-02-02: 11:38:00
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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\"
Demonetary
Created by: mbacon
Pronunciation: dee mon i tare ee
Sentence: Scrooge live a demonetary life until he was reformed by the three spirits
Etymology: Combination of demon, meaning an agent of evil and monetary, meaning relating to money
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
Patcashic
Created by: pandafever
Pronunciation: pu-kaz-ick
Sentence: I gave it all up, only to discover that patcashic doesn't pay!
Etymology:
Mammonerd
Created by: w5lf9s
Pronunciation: ma.men.urd
Sentence: It was when everyone had turned away and noone returned his calls that he finally realized that he had become a mammonerd
Etymology: from "mammon"- wealth regarded as an evil influence and "nerd" - a pejorative applied to people with an above-average IQ and few gifts at small talk and common social rituals
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
Cashflicted
Created by: chofu67
Pronunciation: cash flick ted
Sentence: Cashflicted Chad drifted off to the dark edges of the reunion hall when his material emblems of success were ignored by classmates who viewed him as the same loathesome character they had belittled fifteen years earlier.
Etymology: cash + conflicted
