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DEFINITION: n. A person who lives in their car because they have lost their home. v. To live in your car.
Verboticisms
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Carttage
Created by: splendiction
Pronunciation: caw taj - homophone with cottage
Sentence: Unfortunately they eventually lost their home and took up residence in their car. It would be temporary. When not downtown working, they returned up north to their carttage. As time went by, their carttage became their “home a way from home”.
Etymology: carttage and carttager. From "cottage" and "car".
Wreckhomer
Created by: simoneshin
Pronunciation: wreck homer
Sentence: when she found out he brought this homewrecker in to their home she through him out and he became a wreckhomer
Etymology:
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COMMENTS:
nice! - galwaywegian, 2009-02-17: 06:53:00
Clever switcheroo! Super Duper word, too! - silveryaspen, 2009-02-17: 13:34:00
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Homobile
Created by: leechdude
Pronunciation: hobo-mobeel
Sentence: George why are staying in your car. I'm a homobile
Etymology: homosapien, automobile
Carresident
Created by: gee216
Pronunciation: cur-es-i-dent
Sentence:
Etymology:
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COMMENTS:
Weclome. You can get more points by entering a sentence and etymology, see scoring under News/Help. Good first effort. - silveryaspen, 2009-02-18: 01:27:00
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Vangalow
Created by: Stevenson0
Pronunciation: van/ga/low
Sentence: They moved from apartment dwellers to a vangalow in whatever neighood they wanted.
Etymology: VANGALOW - noun - from VAN (a smaller boxlike vehicle that resembles a panel truck) + BUNGALOW (a one-storied house)
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COMMENTS:
Very good! - Mustang, 2009-02-17: 23:19:00
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Apartmobile
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: uh-pahrt-moh-beel
Sentence: The sales rep spends so much time in her car that she has decked it out as an apartmobile. The bins of snacks and stack of extra cloths are bad enough but recently she has been nagging her husband to figure out how to adapt a mini-fridge and microwave to install in the back seat.
Etymology: apartment (set of rooms for rent ) + mobile(movable, traveling)
Dwellonwheels
Created by: kateinkorea
Pronunciation: DWELL on WHEELS
Sentence: When I was younger, I was hellonwheels, riding around on my Harley. But now I've been reduced to dwellonwheels because I am living in my car.
Etymology: Play on HELL ON WHEELS and made up from DWELL and WHEELS
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COMMENTS:
Puntastic! - silveryaspen, 2009-02-17: 13:32:00
This just make me giggle. Nice Job! - Ismelstar, 2009-02-18: 19:55:00
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Carpartment
Created by: abrakadeborah
Pronunciation: car-part-ment
Sentence: Sam Snickerly, would have gotten a larger automobile had he known it was going to be a carpartment for his entire family.
Etymology: Car- An automobile. Apartment-A room or suite of rooms designed as a residence and generally located in a building occupied by more than one household.
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COMMENTS:
:)Thanks you all! I need to show up more often with my right brain. - abrakadeborah, 2012-01-31: 00:46:00
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Interstateless
Created by: feltcap
Pronunciation: ɪntərˈsteɪtlɛs
Sentence: After his father walked in on a rather intimate moment he was sharing with his mother they had been interstateless.
Etymology: interstate - a highway serving two or more states, stateless - lacking nationality or without nationality or citizenship
Autodweller
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: otto dwel ler
Sentence: Danny had become an autodweller when his stocks plummeted, the bank foreclosed and he lost his home. He moved his family to the country and parked their family sedan, which became their new home. He was not sure if he were a Dodgelodger, an Autonomad, a Vehiculardomicile, Hyundenizen, or a CarResident...the sedantics did not matter. There were a few advantages to living the gypsy life. They could tour the country, meet new people, try new schools every month and redecoration was an obsolete word to them...at least until the gas ran out!
Etymology: Auto (automobile;4-wheeled motor vehicle; usually propelled by an internal combustion engine) & Dweller (a person who inhabits a particular place)
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COMMENTS:
cracked up laughing over the many sedantics! - silveryaspen, 2009-02-17: 13:40:00
Your mind is in overdrive! - metrohumanx, 2009-02-17: 20:45:00
sedantics ftw. - zrotv, 2009-02-17: 22:30:00
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Comments:
Today's definition was suggested by mweinmann. Thank you mweinmann. ~ James
Today's definition was suggested by mweinmann. Thank you mweinmann. ~ James
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