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'Please don't eat that stuff in front of me.'

DEFINITION: v., To eat a strictly regulated diet in order to compensate for a complete lack of control when it comes to drinking. n., A smoker and drinker who becomes a vegan in order to "reverse the damage".

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Crashfasting

Created by: grllkme

Pronunciation:

Sentence: I always end up crashfasting after Thanksgiving.

Etymology:

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Macrobioticrite

Created by: aayeye

Pronunciation:

Sentence: Ethyl is such a macrobioticrite with a carrot in one hand, and a cigarette in the other.

Etymology: Macrobiotic+hypocrite

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Aatkinnemia

Created by: yellowbird

Pronunciation: at-kin-neme-e-ah

Sentence: Joyce may be AAtkinnemic, but I have to admit she seems a lot happier now.

Etymology: Alcoholics Anonymous + Atkins diet + anemia

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Faddict

Created by: Nosila

Pronunciation: fad dikt

Sentence: Beth was a faddict of any new diet that captured her imagination. She truly believed that eating vegan or other extreme diets would offset her dependence on smokes and drink. She would have had better luck on the vice cream diet, if there was such a thing!

Etymology: Fad (an interest followed with exaggerated zeal) & Addict (someone who is physiologically dependent on a substance; abrupt deprivation of the substance produces withdrawal symptoms)

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Artichoker

Created by: wordslikevenom

Pronunciation: Arti-cho-ker

Sentence: Lucinda fumbled around the bottom of her handbag for a matchbox, gasping for a light. Striking the match she lit the end of the celery stick drawing a deep drag from it. The uncontrollable hacking that accompanied being an artichoker must surely have it's benefits?

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Veganebriate

Created by: Nosila

Pronunciation: vee gan ee bree ayt

Sentence: Marsha's system to offset her drinking and smoking vices was to veganebriate herself. For each piece of lettuce, she would take a drink from her cocktail glass. This worked fine until the day in Mexico when she accidentally drank the worm in the tequila bottle...

Etymology: Vegan (one whose strict diet consists of no animal or dairy foods) & Inebriate (a chronic drinker;become drunk or drink excessively)

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Dietchotomize

ettutortilla

Created by: ettutortilla

Pronunciation: Die-et-kot-o-mize

Sentence: Jennifer absolutely abhors the disgusting chemicals used in consumer products these days, especially if they can make her fat. Since cigarettes tend to keep her skinny and a steady influx of alcohol holds thoughts of dying alone at bay, however, she's had to dietchotomize her lifestyle.

Etymology: A combination of "diet" and "dichotomize." Literally meaning to break one's diet into two or more well-defined groups.

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Compensot

Created by: purpleartichokes

Pronunciation: kom-pen-sot

Sentence: Finding her liver spots to be totally unacceptable, Sue became a compensot, eating only vegetables and drinking plenty of water through the daylight hours.

Etymology: compensate, sot (drunkard)

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COMMENTS:

Sot is a great word. Haven't heard it in ages. Great combination! - Scrumpy, 2007-10-10: 08:38:00

very funny - Jabberwocky, 2007-10-10: 10:23:00

Sot is a great word. Very creative! - OZZIEBOB, 2007-10-10: 17:30:00

Thanks! Sot is one of those words we seemed to have buried years ago. - purpleartichokes, 2007-10-10: 19:23:00

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Vegedetoxicate

Created by: OZZIEBOB

Pronunciation: veg-e-dee-TOXEE-kate

Sentence: At Yuletide, Bob was always the life of the party. And with a beer in one hand, a celery stick in the other, and a fag behind his legumiscreant ear, he always belted out his signature tune: " Cigarettes and Whiskey and Wild, Wild Wheatgerm," whilst resolutely vowing that the New Year would see him vegedetoxicate himself back to full health.

Etymology: Vege (vegetables) & detoxicate to remove poisons.

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COMMENTS:

Now that there's funny! - Scrumpy, 2007-10-10: 08:32:00

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Satisvice

MrDave2176

Created by: MrDave2176

Pronunciation: SAH-tiss-vice

Sentence: Marjory's smoking and drinking habits were noting compared to her particular satisvice of herbal teas and organic foods. Unfortunately Whole Foods didn't sell her brand of cigarettes otherwise she could have shopped there exclusively.

Etymology: Satisfy + vice

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Comments:

Verbotomy Verbotomy - 2007-10-10: 00:01:00
Today's definition was suggested by remistram. Thank you again remistram! And if you haven't noticed yet, let me tell you -- it's "Food Week" at Verbotomy ~ James

remistram - 2007-10-10: 08:45:00
I went to school with people like this.

Verbotomy Verbotomy - 2007-10-11: 01:42:00
I used to be a person like this, but I have given up on the vegetables. ~ James

Verbotomy Verbotomy - 2010-02-05: 00:44:00
Today's definition was suggested by remistram. Thank you remistram. ~ James