Verboticism: Ripoffligate

'Hey, you're copying me!'

DEFINITION: v. To copy and share an idea, thing, or person because you think that it's so wonderful that everyone should have one. n. An open source clone.

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Ripoffligate

metrohumanx

Created by: metrohumanx

Pronunciation: RIPOFF-LIH-GATE

Sentence: The despicable Professor Mindell purloined my original nutty ideas and shamelessly touted them as his own in a sickening display of the worst kind of RIPOFFLIGATE behavior ever seen in the halls of macadamia.

Etymology: RIPOFF+profLIGATE; RIPOFF-Late 20th century term meaning to steal PROFLIGATE-1. Openly and shamelessly immoral; dissipated; dissolute. 2. Recklessly wasteful

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Comments: Ripoffligate

metrohumanx - 2008-07-07: 07:14:00
A true story from Bogus Community College...

TJayzz - 2008-07-07: 08:55:00
Funny

metrohumanx - 2008-07-07: 08:58:00
That's ONE DISTURBING buzz-cut in the illustration.

Jabberwocky - 2008-07-07: 11:31:00
shades of Watergate

Mustang - 2008-07-07: 19:01:00
Professor Mindel is clearly just another macadamia nut. Great word....sounds so Washington DCish.

OZZIEBOB - 2008-07-07: 19:27:00
The nutty professor strikes again:good word.

abrakadeborah - 2009-03-25: 14:18:00
Ripoffligate