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Each year the Washington Post's Style Invitational asks readers to take any word from the dictionary, alter it by adding, subtracting, or changing one letter and then supply a new definition.
Here are the 2001 winners:

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Reintarnation: Coming back to life as a hillbilly.

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Foreploy: Any misrepresentation about yourself for the purpose of getting laid (familiar to all men).

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Giraffiti: Vandalism spray-painted very, very high.

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

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

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Hipatitis: Terminal coolness.

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

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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.

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Glibido: All talk and no action.

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

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And, the pick of the literature:

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