Verboticism: Crative
DEFINITION: n. The creative, yet blatantly illegal use of plastic milk crates, and the latent fear of prosecution associated with this alleged crime. v. To create and build home furnishings using stolen milk crates.
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Crativity
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: kray tiviteeee
Sentence: His crativity was never really understood in his lifetime. It was a tragic case.
Etymology: creativity, crate
Dairycycling
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: day reee siy kling
Sentence: His dairycycling was proof that there was no use crying over spilt milk
Etymology: dairy recycling
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COMMENTS:
very witty - Jabberwocky, 2009-04-03: 12:31:00
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Craterape
Created by: kateinkorea
Pronunciation: CRATE rape
Sentence: I felt tricked into being involved in something vile. John, my roommate, had suggested that I carry my groceries home in a milk crate. “People do it all the time,” he had said. And he promised he would bring it back for me. But once we got home he got lazy about taking it back and instead decided to recreate the milk crate into a part of his new bookshelf. Feeling quite clever, he morphed it into something unrecognizable. His craterape was the last straw in our ongoing stressful existence under the same roof.
Etymology: CRATE + RAPE+ DATERAPE RAPE: to plunder (a place); despoil; to seize, take, or carry off by force
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COMMENTS:
terrific story - Jabberwocky, 2009-04-03: 12:30:00
crate ending, too! - silveryaspen, 2009-04-04: 09:03:00
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Milkcrateratorator
Created by: amylynn242
Pronunciation: Milk-crater-ator-ator
Sentence: The seat i was sitting on cracked so i got my handy dandy milkcrateratorator. It looks like a milk crate only it it electric and whips you bottem for you. it's the PERFECT thing to replace your toilet seat!
Etymology: Milk-crater-ator-ator
Illisitupon
Created by: petaj
Pronunciation: illicit-a-pon
Sentence: Lily's crativity resulted in a booming business for illisitupons. They were not very comfortable and left an awful pattern on legs and bottoms, but they had become so fashionable that she was running a thriving online shop. Only trouble, was she had to keep changing hosts and addresses to avoid prosecution by the dairy co.
Etymology: illicit (illegal) + sit upon
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COMMENTS:
nice - galwaywegian, 2009-04-03: 08:46:00
moovelous - Jabberwocky, 2009-04-03: 12:36:00
Bully for her! - Nosila, 2009-04-03: 23:38:00
Definitely one of the butt-er (better) sentences! Your word is Exceptional! - silveryaspen, 2009-04-04: 09:09:00
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Crative
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: kray tiv
Sentence: thinking too far outside the box inevitably leads to a bad case of crativity
Etymology: crate creative
Confiscreate
Created by: mrskellyscl
Pronunciation: con-fis-create
Sentence: Lorraine was aghast when she first saw her boyfriend's apartment and found that it was totally furnished with confiscreated milk crates. She wondered, "Should I be concerned that he's a klepto, or content that he's a creative cratecrafter?"
Etymology: Confiscate: steal;seize + create: build, compose
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COMMENTS:
terrific combo - Jabberwocky, 2009-04-03: 12:29:00
Great word, mrsk...he stole her heart, so why wouldn't he steal anything else??? - Nosila, 2009-04-03: 23:36:00
nice blending, too! - silveryaspen, 2009-04-04: 09:01:00
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Nopointcryingoverspiltmilkismyattitude
Created by: Ratty
Pronunciation: no-point-crying-over-spilt-milk-is-my-attitude
Sentence: When Jenny 'murdered' thousands of poor, innocent milk bottles, just so she could build a whole house out of milk crates, she claimed "Well, nopointcryingoverspiltmilkismyattitude, so what do you expect?"
Etymology: The phrase "no point/use crying over spilt milk" which means no use making a fuss about nothing but more literally with "is my attitude" all turned into one word.
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Blactosemarket
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: blak tose mar ket
Sentence: Eddy Jones likes living on the edge. He likes to think his middle name is Danger, but it is actually Howard. Eddy recycles milk crates and makes them into other objects and sells them. Anyday now he could be caught with crate freight, by the police who he calls Crate Watchers. He is working the blactosemarket very successfully. His latest project is coffins, air-conditioned ones. He markets them as The Crateful Dead.
Etymology: Black Market (an illegal market in which goods or currencies are bought and sold in violation of rationing or controls)& Lactose (a sugar comprising one glucose molecule linked to a galactose molecule; occurs only in milk)
Dairegret
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: dair-ee-gret
Sentence: James knows that it is not legal to use milk cartons for his own purposes. He doesn't let his dairegret stop him from having a bookcase that covers an entire wall of his apartment made of these ubiquitous cubes.
Etymology: dairy (of or relating to the production of milk and milk products) + regret (o feel sorrow or remorse)
