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DEFINITION: n. A state of heightened, subconscious awareness that allows drivers to "safely" navigate and control a vehicle without watching the road. v. To drive without bothering to watch where you are going.
Verboticisms
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Napigate
Created by: Nuwanda
Pronunciation: nap-a-gate
Sentence: After years of working the graveyard shift, Joel was highly skilled at napigating between his home and workplace. So successful in fact, that after retiring, he would sometimes awake with a start to find himself trying to unlock his old office.
Etymology: Navigate plus nap.
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COMMENTS:
I hate it when I go to work when I don\'t have to. - artr, 2009-09-30: 14:43:00
Love it... - Nosila, 2009-10-01: 01:30:00
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Carvana
Created by: Discoveria
Pronunciation: Kar-varh-na
Sentence: After 15 years of solid driving experience, Betty had finally reached carvana - the awareness that her car and the traffic are ONE... and everything else is maya, illusion...
Etymology: Car + nirvana. Nirvana: the highest spiritual plane according to Buddhism. (Maya, btw, is the Hare Krishna (Hindu sect) word for illusion.)
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COMMENTS:
Everything else is illusion? Sounds like carvananity... - wordmeister, 2007-03-13: 15:35:00
I thought so too...though that's not why I eventually rejected further exploration... - Discoveria, 2007-03-13: 18:03:00
I'm impressed with your Hindu and Buddist knowledge. like the word too. - erasmus, 2007-03-14: 05:23:00
I like this one! - jedijawa, 2007-03-14: 10:01:00
erasmus - thanks. No-one would suspect that I had to google nirvana for a definition...;D - Discoveria, 2007-03-14: 11:48:00
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Stradar
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: strādär
Sentence: Jim gets up WAY too early in the morning to get to work. While driving down the highway there are stretches where the road is boringly familiar and music on the radio is sort of relaxing (less head banging than usual). He may start to nod off. That little voice in his head says **The road is straight. There is almost no traffic. Go ahead, close your eyes for just a second**. This is when he relies on stradar, that internal sense that the movement has shifted from linear to lateral. If it is severe, it will startle him enough to put a shot of adrenalin into his bloodstream and complete the trip with his head upright. If not, he will open all the windows, crank up the radio and sing along to to some song he may not even like all that much at the top of his lungs. Jim*s friends worry.
Etymology: stray (move without a specific purpose or by mistake) + radar (a system for detecting the presence, direction, distance, and speed of aircraft, ships, and other objects, by sending out pulses of high-frequency electromagnetic waves that are reflected off the object back to the source)
Lulladriving
Created by: RainbowView
Pronunciation: lull a drive ing
Sentence: On the way to Springfield, when I was more than halfway there, I suddenly realized that far too many drivers had fallen into their own serene states of lulladriving, blissfully unaware of the road sign flashing for them to get in the left lane.
Etymology: lull + lullaby + driving
Autoteleshalomnia
Created by: barqdog
Pronunciation: auto - tele - shalom - nia
Sentence: While driving, Mary fell into a state of autoteleshalomnia in which she had no recodnition of the ride, but arrived to her destination safely.
Etymology: auto- self. tele- at a distance. shalom- peace.
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COMMENTS:
great us of words.
i want you. - barqdog, 2011-02-17: 11:48:00
use* tehe - barqdog, 2011-02-17: 11:48:00
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Medipiolet
Created by: sammrorkeydork
Pronunciation: med a pi let
Sentence: I was driving home in heavy traffic, and I went into a medipiloet sage. I was super duperly relaxed and could drive anywhere anytime!
Etymology: medi - meditation piolet - driver
Zenpilot
Created by: chercherlalun
Pronunciation: zen pi lot
Sentence: Mary was a zenpilot. She had become one with the steering wheel
Etymology:
Medidrive
Created by: EffingCharms
Pronunciation: Med-i- drive
Sentence: When she Medidrives, she makes less comments about how the other drivers are, well... driving.
Etymology: Medi is from meditate, meaning to meditate, be in a completely relaxed state.
Sleepatomomney
Created by: acarr23
Pronunciation: Sleep a tomo ney
Sentence: The driver suffers from sleepatomomney.
Etymology:
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Today's definition was suggested by purpleartichokes.
Thank you purpleartichokes! ~ James
Today's definition was suggested by purpleartichokes. Thank you purpleartichokes. ~ James