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'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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Fairoied

Created by: missmurder

Pronunciation: fair-oid

Sentence: When the biker farted, they found out he was high on fairoid.

Etymology: fart-steroid

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Banshock

Created by: riomarde

Pronunciation: Ban-shock

Sentence: After the Olympian cyclist was caught using illegal performance enhancers he released a statement expressing his banshock and denial.

Etymology: Banned substances... ban + shock... feigned or genuine response to allegations of the athlete’s use of banned substances.

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Barryjuice

Created by: kabloozie

Pronunciation: Bare-e-joos

Sentence: After he failed the drug test, Doug launched into a barryjuice, and claimed his detractors spiked his Gatorade.

Etymology: Barry Bonds + juice (slang for 'roids)

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Refutalete

Created by: mdmquincy

Pronunciation: re-fyoo-ta-leet

Sentence: Although the tests affirmed the world's suspicions, the refutalete held fast to his disavowal of wrongdoing.

Etymology: refute + athlete with a nice sound connection to the word elite.

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Prinsesa

Created by: prinsesa200

Pronunciation: stars

Sentence: stars

Etymology: stars

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Awenial

Created by: Stevenson0

Pronunciation: awe/ni/al

Sentence: Henri was in total awenial about his alleged drug use. He told the press he was totally awepalled (shocked and horrified) to find out that the needles his coach was giving him were steroids and not vitamin B shots.

Etymology: awe + denial

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Increphedralous

Created by: Kyoti

Pronunciation: In-creh-feh-druh-luss

Sentence: Buzz was just as astonished as anyone when he threw his javelin right out of the stadium, but was full of increphedralous indignation when people began to imply he was somehow abusing performance-enhancing substances.

Etymology: Incredulous + ephedra

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COMMENTS:

you must admit that it was an increphedrable distance - Jabberwocky, 2007-07-27: 12:23:00

The International Athletics Ephederation is conducting an internal investigation to get to the bottoms of these ephedreadful allegations. - Kyoti, 2007-07-27: 16:33:00

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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:

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

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

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Dopute

Created by: remistram

Pronunciation: doh-pewt

Sentence: After much successful dopute, he realised that retiring from the sport was inevitable and that all the days of denying his real passion for competitive scrabble were coming to an end.

Etymology: dope + dispute

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Sterannoyed

Created by: mplsbohemian

Pronunciation: STEHR-uh-noid

Sentence: Alex wept as he saw the sterannoyed look of his favourite cyclist looking back at him from the television screen.

Etymology: steroid + annoyed

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COMMENTS:

poor Alex never gets a break - Jabberwocky, 2007-07-27: 12:43:00

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Comments:

Jabberwocky - 2007-07-27: 10:48:00
I'm trying to figure out if it's Andy Warhol or Annie Lennox giving the injection

KristinA - 2007-07-27: 14:11:00
I was thinking Bowie.

ziggy41 - 2007-07-28: 01:34:00
Ellen Degeneres was my first guess.

Kyoti - 2007-07-29: 10:45:00
Anne Heche fools everyone yet again.