When Your Name Becomes a Verb

This is when you know you have really screwed the pooch...when your name becomes a verb. Via Urban Dictionary and Michelle Malkin, we learn that to "Nifong" someone means to zealously and unjustly prosecute them based on motives far less noble than seeking justice. Sometimes, the Internet is a very cool thing, and I hope this is yet another nail in the coffin of Durham, N.C. District Attorney Mike Nifong's career. Someone should have told Mr. Nifong that while fame lasts 15 minutes if we are lucky, infamy lasts much, much longer. :)

Nifonged describes the railroading or harming of a person with no justifiable cause, except for one's own gain. It is someone being taken advantage of unfairly by someone without scruples or morals. It is created more in disdain of North Carolina/Durham District Attorney Michael Nifong, and his screwing of 3 Duke University Lacrosse Team members and helping to inflame a tense racial situation for his own glory, ego, and political gain.

Being Nifonged, Getting Nifonged, Nifonged
-examples
1. We knew we were BEING NIFONGED when we were forced to pay an extra $50 duty to the customs agent for bringing foreign magazines into Mexico under the threat of jail time.
2. When I saw that the rebate on my new DVD player was not honored by the company I'd bought it from, I had the distinct feeling I was GETTING NIFONGED.
3. "When we noticed that our belongings were missing from our room, we had the distinct feeling we had been NIFONGED by the locals.