Verboticisms

Created by: GreatRandew

Pronunciation: Ghost-braking

Sentence: Instinctivly braking when such an action is felt as needed but when there is no brake pedal.

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Created by: beverly

Pronunciation: anti spaz er rake

Sentence: She always antispazerakes when we get too close to another car.

Etymology: ante- before,prior to spazerake- a mix of the word spaz and brake

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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: danboaz

Pronunciation: self-prez-er-brAk

Sentence: the driving instructor had an uncontrollable instinct for selfpreserbreaking, eventhough he realized he was impotent to stop any accident from happening.

Etymology: self + preservation + break

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Created by: bghicks

Pronunciation: break oh matic

Sentence: When his 16 year old failed to stop at the red light, his foot brakeomatically went into action.

Etymology: brake automatic

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Created by: Hjason

Pronunciation: Auto-ped-ite

Sentence: It is so annoying when I am driving my friend around and they sit there autopediting as if I was not a capable driver.

Etymology: Automatic(as in instinctual)+pedal+expidite

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Created by: Madamemojo

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Created by: gbegun

Pronunciation: BREV-aye-TOR

Sentence: Because of Suzi's brevator like personality, she believes everything should be stopped prematurely.

Etymology: Brev-Short Ator-person

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Created by: Carla

Pronunciation: sloane-righ-duh

Sentence: Bernadette was the (self-appointed) car safety officer. Whenever the driver approached a 'hazard' (another car, for example), Bernadette would slam her foot onto the floor and beseech him to slow down.

Etymology: slow + 'lone rider'

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Created by: meganhardy

Pronunciation: ab-scared

Sentence: My foot abscared when Allison almost hit a tree while she was driving me to school this morning.

Etymology: ab- from scared- beleiving that your life is in great danger.

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