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'I'll hide these Alligator Pumps with the Crocs'

DEFINITION: To find something you really want in a shop, but then, since you cannot buy it immediately, to hide it so that no one else will get it.

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Hideandgosneak

Created by: Maxine

Pronunciation: hiyd and go sneek

Sentence: While shopping, Martha hid the 90% discounted high-end purse in a pile of stale, leftover Christmas candy. With some luck, she'd be able to run home and grab the gift card she forgot. She's a regular hideandgosneaker.

Etymology: hide and go seek, sneak

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Shopblock

Created by: paintergrl1313

Pronunciation: shop-block

Sentence: I went shopping and found something fabulous, alas I had no money. I had to shopblock the other customers by hiding it.

Etymology: like cockblock

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Filchnik

Created by: silveryaspen

Pronunciation: filch - neek

Sentence: Guess I better fichnik these sneakers before somebody else sees them, so I can buy them when I have the money.

Etymology: filchnik: filch and sneak + filchnik

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Purcacher

Created by: Stevenson0

Pronunciation: pur/cache/er

Sentence: Her husband had suspended all debit and credit cards and limited her to a weekly allowance because of her outlandish spending sprees. As a result, she was a cash only buyer. Unfortunately, when that money ran out, she turned into a devious purcacher who hide sale items in various places in the store until her weekly allowance came in.

Etymology: purchaser + cache

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COMMENTS:

Good word. - OZZIEBOB, 2007-12-26: 18:51:00

Great word! Wish I'd thought of it. - Mustang, 2007-12-26: 22:08:00

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