Verboticisms

Created by: camel

Pronunciation: Drive-en-ger

Sentence: Gas, break, dip - I can't help but drivenger whenever Tyrone takes me out to ghost ride the whip.

Etymology: Driver, passenger

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Created by: walkingdistraction

Pronunciation: fan-tom-foot-ing

Sentence: The drivers ed instructor was getting muscle cramps due to his constant phantomfooting.

Etymology: phantom+footing

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Created by: maxxy

Pronunciation: treh-PEH-deh-layt

Sentence: Jim frantically trepedelated as his teenage son sped down the street.

Etymology: trepidation + pedal

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Created by: celeron450

Pronunciation: brake-uh-wish

Sentence: As they approached the traffic jam far too rapidly, Brian's father could only brakawish.

Etymology: brake, make a wish

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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:

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Created by: Fenners

Pronunciation:

Sentence: Brake dammit! I'm whiteknuckling here!

Etymology:

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Created by: meganfis

Pronunciation: Contra-cardiac-tist

Sentence: The driving instructor was on the edge of her seat, and was being a contracardiactist.

Etymology: contra- against, cardiac-heart,

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Created by: adobrodt

Pronunciation: fan-TAS-ma-BRAKE-ij

Sentence: Bob suffered from an incurable phantasmabrakeage syndrome, causing most of his friends to insist on him driving everywhere.

Etymology: From phantasm (imaginary) and brakeage (the action of a brake)

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Created by: kryptik

Pronunciation: staw-pre-hen-shun

Sentence: Everyone Kate drives with suffers from acute stopprehension, which increases with every red light she misses.

Etymology: From the words 'stop' and 'apprehension'

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Created by: Psychicsi

Pronunciation: du-al con-trol-ism

Sentence: Steve suffers dualcontrolism, but only when his wife is driving.

Etymology: from the dual conrol brakes found in many driving instructors cars

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