Verboticism: Roidrangel

'I'm clean! Clean as a needle!'

DEFINITION: The prescribed response of shock and denial that all world-class athletes follow when caught using banned drugs.

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Roidrangel

Created by: KristinA

Pronunciation: royd-range-L

Sentence: "Roidrangel" is to Major League Baseball, as "I did not have sexual relations with that woman," is to The White House.

Etymology: roidrage (side effect of steroids) + angel (to act innocent)

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Comments: Roidrangel

petaj - 2007-07-27: 08:14:00
You could add wrangle as well for the argument over the charges.

Kyoti - 2007-07-27: 11:02:00
And the "hypo" portion of "hypotenuse".