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-a-thon
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Athon -athon
English
Suffix
en -athon.
en 2005 Frank A. DeFilippo Hooked 72 The only discernable connection was the Block, each one of them feeding off the trough for his own peculiar need, strange bedfellows bouncing on the same sheets in a cosmic fuck-a-thon that, if televised, would raise [...] money [...]
en 2010 Bernice Bright Dickey My #1 Is Still My #1! 92 I need him here to have our back to school love-a-thon.
Usage notes
While the suffix -athon may or may not be set off by a hyphen (both dance-athon and danceathon can be found), -a-thon is always set off by a hyphen: one sees dance-a-thon, not *dancea-thon.
Derived terms
en
Anagrams
en ahnot Hotan Notah antho- thoan