Another Style Invitational neologism contest (sort of): Week 951: Double over with laughter

Fast fast: Sacrificing the midmorning snack break. Also known as Yom Zippur.

Bus buss: For those who couldn’t leave it at the Kiss-and-Ride.

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Ultra-Loser Kevin Dopart, who suggested this contest, called it “Reduplicatives.” It’s pretty clear: Double a word, or use a word and its homophone, to make a phrase, and define it, as in the examples of both types above — (a) two words spelled the same (they can be pronounced differently), and (b) two words spelled differently but pronounced the same). If you want to make a triple (or, who knows, more) go for it.

Winner gets the Inker, the official Style Invitational trophy. Second place receives — in solemn commemoration of the recent death of a global dignitary — the Dear Leader Tongue Scraper, which is your basic dental-device tongue scraper except that the cardboard packaging features a painting of said scraper being held by Kim Jong Il as he cavorts on a beach with three young ladies in leotards. Donated by Nan Reiner.

Other runners-up win their choice of a coveted Style Invitational Loser T-shirt or yearned-for Loser Mug. Honorable mentions get a lusted-after Loser magnet. First Offenders get a tree-shaped air “freshener” (FirStink for their first ink). E-mail entries to losers@washpost.com or fax to 202-334-4312. Deadline is Tuesday, Jan. 3; results published Jan. 22 (Jan. 20 online). No more than 25 entries per entrant per week. Include “Week 951” in your e-mail subject line or it may be ignored as spam. Include your real name, postal address and phone number with your entry. See contest rules and guidelines at Washingtonpost.com/styleinvitational. The revised title for next week was submitted by both Beverley Sharp and Chris Doyle; the subhead for this week’s honorable mentions is by Elden Carnahan. Join the Style Invitational Devotees on Facebook at on.fb.me/invdev.

Report from Week 947

our annual “Tour de Fours” contest, in which we asked for neologisms including the four-letter block N-O-E-L, in any order but without any other letters between them:

The winner of the Inker

Groucholenses: How to look at the world through nose-covered glasses. (Eric Fritz, Silver Spring, Md.)

2. Winner of the Santa Dreidel and some stocking coal: iPhonelecher: A tweet-stalking guy. (Chris Doyle, Ponder, Tex.)

3. None-liners: Sight gags. (Jeff Contompasis, Ashburn, Va.)

4. Leno jay:A nocturnal bird that lays an egg every night at 11:35. (Malcolm Fleschner, Palo Alto, Calif.)

Fours on the floor: Honorable mentions

Noelevator: How Santa gets back up the chimney. (Rick Haynes, Boynton Beach, Fla.)

Canoe Lips: What other kids used to call Mick Jagger and Steve Tyler. (David Garratt, Glenn Dale, Md.)

Peonlover: What the other billionaires call Warren Buffett. (Dave Airozo, Silver Spring, Md.)

Ole Nam River: Mekong Delta blues. (Howard Walderman, Columbia, Md.)

Faileontology: B-school case studies on New Coke, Betamax and Edsel. (Pam Sweeney, Burlington, Mass.)

Danglenosen: German for “You need a tissue.” (David Genser, Poway, Calif.)

Coloneye: James Bond flick where the villain gets it in the end. (Dion Black, Washington)