frutal

frutal
 n.— «He headed in for an attempted dunk. Ker-plunk. Cooper lost the ball on the way up. He then ran to the bench and stretched out while laughing. “This was frutal,” Cooper said, offering a new word that might be a combination of “futile” and “brutal.”» —“At practice, Nuggets on defensive—Cooper style” by Chris Tomasson Rocky Mountain News (Denver, Colo.) Dec. 30, 2004. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)

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