pigopoly
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
1
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A cartel of greedy, overcharging businesses, specifically the entertainment industry.
Derogatory; Informal
Example Sentences
- "It is no more than a tie between the players in the Two-Party Pigopoly* of our government. ¶ […] ¶ *term courtesy of The Register […]"
- "That's actually quite encouraging; it shows that no matter how much they try, pigopolies like the MPAA can't stop technology with legislation."
- "I think it is one thing to not have DRM built in in the first place, and keep your board from being being massacred by the pigopoly, but quite another to have built-in DRM and not implemet it."
- "[…] a lot of smaller ISPs were getting their feed from a certain pigopoly company that had decided to save money and unplug a heap of their storage units & sell them off."