cashtration

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noun

The loss or lack of money.

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Meanings

nouncashtration (uncountable)
  1. humorousslanguncountableThe loss or lack of money.

    Looks like death by cashtration

    2000 May 19, Arnie Lerma, “Re: Thursday Box... BE tanks further”, in alt.religion.scientology (Usenet)
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    For the couple suffering from cashtration (financial impotency) all that’s left is a staycation, a frugal vacation spent close to home.

    2010 March 31, Jeannette Showalter, “The new investment lingo”, in Fort Myers Florida Weekly

    I suffered from cashtration—an intimate condition of money separation. But I paid. I paid every day.

    2011, William Weyr, Anvil of Moonlight, Xlibris, →ISBN, page 9

Origin

Blend of cash + castration.

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cashtration. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cashtration

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“cashtration.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cashtration. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “cashtration,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cashtration.

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