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The Washington Post publishes a yearly contest in which readers are asked to supply alternate meanings for various words. Some recent winning entries:

1. Coffee (n.), a person who is coughed upon.

2. Flabbergasted (adj.), appalled over how much weight you have gained.

3. Abdicate (v.), to give up all hope of ever having a flat stomach.

4. Esplanade (v.), to attempt an explanation while drunk.

5. Willy-nilly (adj.), impotent

6. Negligent (adj.), describes a condition in which you absentmindedly answer the door in
your nightie.

7. Lymph (v.), to walk with a lisp.

8. Gargoyle (n.), an olive-flavoured mouthwash.

9. Flatulence (n.) the emergency vehicle that picks you up after you are run over by a
steamroller.

10. Balderdash (n.), a rapidly receding hairline.

11. Testicle (n.), a humorous question on an exam.

12. Rectitude (n.), the formal, dignified demeanour assumed by a proctologist immediately
before he examines you

13. Oyster (n.), a person who sprinkles his conversation with Yiddish expressions.

14. Circumvent (n.), the opening in the front of boxer shorts.

15. Frisbeetarianism (n.), The belief that, when you die, your soul goes up on the roof and
gets stuck there.

16. Pokemon (n), A Jamaican proctologist.

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The Washington Post invited readers to take any word from the dictionary, alter it by adding,
subtracting, or changing one letter, and supply a new definition. Here are some of those
winners:

1. Intaxication: Euphoria at getting a tax refund, which lasts until you realize it was your
money to start with.

2. Reintarnation: Coming back to life as a hillbilly.

3. Foreploy: Any misrepresentation about yourself for the purpose of getting laid (e.g.:
"I'm a doctor...")

4. Giraffiti: Vandalism spray-painted very, very high.

5. Sarchasm: The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the person who doesn't get
it.

6. Inoculatte: To take coffee intravenously when you are running late.

7. Hipatitis: Terminal coolness.

8. Osteopornosis: A degenerate disease. (this one got extra credit)

9. Karmageddon: It's like, when everybody is sending off all these really bad vibes, right?
And then, like, the Earth explodes and it's like, a serious bummer.

10. Glibido: All talk and no action.

11. Dopeler effect: The tendency of stupid ideas to seem smarter when they come at you
rapidly.

12. Ignoranus: A person who's both stupid and an asshole.

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Me and hubby and the kids play a game something like this.

We have those magnetic letters on our fridge, and we arrange them in a readable arrangement of vowels and consonants, then challenge each other to come up with a definition for our constructed word, then use it in a sentence.

Example:

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This reminded me a bit of the game Balderdash when you have to get people to believe your definition for a word. That's when the BS Detector* on your Hatrack Utilty Belt comes in handy .

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I'm not going to touch the implications of "willy nilly" vs "wetwilly", other than to say I think that WW was drawing that connection on purpose.

(Picture babylonfreak rummaging around blindly on his front porch seeking the invisible HUB)