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ANNUAL NEOLOGISM CONTEST
Once again, The Washington Post has published the winning submissions to its yearly contest, in which readers are asked to supply alternate meanings for common words.
The winners are:
1. Coffee (n.) the person upon whom one coughs.
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. Negligent (adj.) describes a condition in which you absent-mindedly answer the door in your nightgown.
5. Lymph (v.) to walk with a lisp.
6. Gargoyle (n.) olive-flavored mouthwash.
7. Flatulence (n.) emergency vehicle that picks you up after you are run over by a steamroller.
8. Balderdash (n.) a rapidly receding hairline.
9. Oyster (n.) a person who sprinkles his conversation with Yiddishisms.
10. Frisbeetarianism (n.) the belief that, when you die, your Soul flies up onto the roof and gets
stuck there.
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