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DEFINITION: v. To instinctively slam your foot on "the brakes" even though you're just a passenger. Often occurs when the actual driver fails to brake appropriately. n. A sudden jerk of the leg.
Verboticisms
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Passbrake
Created by: ScyldScefing
Pronunciation: /pAEzbrEIk/, where AE stands for "a" as in "cat" and "EI" is pronounced as dypthong, not separate sounds.
Sentence: "And there it was, this truck, and John seemed to be so slow, I passbraked so hard you could actually hear the "thud"
Etymology: From "pass", short for "passenger", and the verb "to brake".
Brakearating.
Created by: stormee
Pronunciation: Break-a-rating
Sentence: The passanger automatically started brakearating when the driver did not slow down at the stop sign.
Etymology: To use imaginary brake pedal.
Antebackdriving
Created by: alyssawren
Pronunciation: an-tee-back-driving
Sentence: Lucy was antebackdriving because the driver wasn't breaking or driving very well. She was breaking before the driver was.
Etymology: ante: before back: back seat driving:driving better than the driver
Britbrake
Created by: Adamson
Pronunciation: brit-brake
Sentence: I just can't get use to be sitting on this side and not driving, sorry if I britbrake and britclutch all the time.
Etymology: brit (brittain)+braking
Hyperchumping
Created by: ce0brb
Pronunciation: Hy-per-chump-ing
Sentence: Either drive yourself, or deal with being a passenger. Just stop hyperchumping.
Etymology: Hyperchondriac & pumping (at non existant brake pedal).
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COMMENTS:
This should perhaps be 'hypochumping', if you spell 'hypochondriac' correctly. - degsy99, 2007-01-04: 05:01:00
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Empathengerfeet
Created by: rikboyee
Pronunciation: em-paath-en-jer-feet
Sentence: Realising that Gary had not noticed the red light, Jacob tried to empathengerfeet them to a safe stop.... there were no survivors
Etymology: empathy, passenger seat, feet
Brakeamiss
Created by: quippingqueen
Pronunciation: brak/a/mis
Sentence: Her breathtaking brakeamiss technique did nothing to prevent her day-dreaming driver from swerving into a pink elephant sitting quietly in the driveway munching on a bag of peanuts.
Etymology: brake + amiss
Antedisasterinstinctiveswervation
Created by: SydneyNFox
Pronunciation: ANT-EH-DIZ-AH-STIR-IN-STINK-TIV-SWERV-A-SHUN
Sentence: I slapped my foot down hard antedisasterinstictivswervigly,knowing if John didn't stop soon we would die!
Etymology: Ante-(Latin- before) Disaster-(Italian: Disastro- ill starred event) Instinct-(Latin: Instinctus- impulse) Swerve-(Old English: Sweorfan- depart, leave, turn aside)
Surrobrake
Created by: tangledupinblue
Pronunciation:
Sentence: My mother was babbling about my marital prospects and didn't see the red light, so I surrobraked and screamed "Stop!" but unfortunately she thought I was telling her to stop harassing me and we slammed into the car in front of us.
Etymology:
Comments:
chris - 2006-12-27: 05:07:00
..hard to beat 'brakedancing'....
wordmeister - 2006-12-27: 10:37:00
Hey Chris, Yes I spotted brakedancing too! I was going to suggest that you consider "proxypedal" but that's your word... What about "Impedalment"? It's good too...
Wriiight - 2006-12-27: 12:56:00
While driving, I often notice my passengers suffer from a loss of controls.
wordmeister - 2006-12-27: 13:05:00
Good one Wriight!
nibololihiaa - 2018-12-27: 04:24:00
Промывки форсунок... Очистка инжектора....
Dulliesjag - 2018-12-27: 04:42:00
Sorry in place of
lolakusovska - 2018-12-27: 16:26:00
Хочу породистого щенка немецкой овчарки... Купить щенка немецкой овчарки..
gorapukinovs - 2018-12-27: 17:50:00
Массаж и техника массжа... Скидки на новогоднии праздники. Приглашаем
Dulliesjag - 2018-12-27: 19:45:00
What organize the