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[John]

1. ARBITRATOR: A cook that leaves Arby's to work at McDonalds

2. AVOIDABLE: What a bullfighter tries to do

3. BERNADETTE: The act of torching a mortgage

4. BURGLARIZE: What a crook sees with

5. CONTROL: A short, ugly inmate

6. COUNTERFEITERS: Workers who put together kitchen cabinets

7. ECLIPSE: What an English barber does for a living

8. EYEDROPPER: A clumsy ophthalmologist

9. HEROES: What a guy in a boat does

10. LEFTBANK: What the robber did when his bag was full of money

11. MISTY: How golfers create divots

12. PARADOX: Two physicians!

13. PARASITES: What you see from the top of the Eiffel Tower

14. PHARMACIST: A helper on the farm

15. POLARIZE: What penguins live on

16. PRIMATE: Removing your spouse from in front of the TV!

17. RELIEF: What trees do in the spring

18. RUBBERNECK: What you do to relax your wife

19. SELFISH: What the owner of a seafood store does

20. SUDAFED: Brought litigation against a government official!

[Rhonda]

I have a couple more to add.

FOREBEAR - The only thing scarier than three bear.

DIPHTHONG - A sandal worn by nerds.

And here's a new word invented to meet a need.

MONOPUTZ - The one person in every Monopoly game who says, "Wouldn't it be neat if this money was real?"

[HighPlainsMedic]

I thought about posting medical abbreviations/acronyms.. but it might offend.. we get it in my world but not everybody does.. I did find a few that might not

Black cloud - a doctor who attracts difficult or prolonged cases or an unusually high number of code blues calls

Blade - Surgeon: dashing, bold, arrogant and often wrong, but never in doubt

Blamestorming - apportioning of blame for mistakes, usually to any locum or lowliest medic in sight

[Becky J.]

John,
These are great. I love sharing.

Becky J.