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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.
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Dualcontrolism
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
Spazenger
Created by: thedugster
Pronunciation: Spaz - enger
Sentence: My passenger needs medication, they are such a spazenger!
Etymology: Passengers who demonstrate irrational responses to required driving maneuvers.
Stopprehension
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'
Phantomfooting
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
Abstastic
Created by: Littell16
Pronunciation: abs-tas-tic
Sentence: Allsion made abstatic actions when she lost multi-word pop to Lauren.
Etymology: abs-from,away,down;tastic-amazing
Stopujerk
Created by: ubgrud
Pronunciation: STOP YOU JERK!
Sentence: "I hate driving with Jenny," he muttered, slamming the door behind him. "Stopujerk, stopujerk, stopujerk..." he mimicked.
Etymology: Muttering under the breath but loudly.
Haltpulse
Created by: awesomo
Pronunciation: halt-pulse
Sentence: Rudy almost ran-over a racoon, so I had the haltpule to stop him.
Etymology: halt-impulse
Antecatastinct
Created by: briangianelos
Pronunciation: an-tE-ca-ta-stE-nkt
Sentence: Bill observed Jim's violent antecatastinct as he came to an abrupt stop at the busy intersection.
Etymology: Ante (before) cata (catastrophe) stinct (tendency)
Illusionhalt
Created by: ahwinters
Pronunciation: ill-loo-shen-hawlt
Sentence: Mae bad drving made Sallie develop a crap in her right leg from all of her illusionhalt.
Etymology: illusion + halt
Brasm
Created by: Mustang
Pronunciation: brahsm
Sentence: Lucy was always on edge when riding in the car with her husband, Lou, and as he was often quite inattentive she would have a brasm, stomping on an imaginary brake pedal when she thought he was too slow to do so himself.
Etymology: Blend of 'brake' (device for stopping vehicles) and 'spasm' ( A sudden burst of energy, activity, or emotion)
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