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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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Antecrashsomnia
Created by: Paige
Pronunciation: ante crash som ni a
Sentence: While Shannon was driving down the windy road late last night she was slowly drifting into antecrashsomnia.
Etymology: ante: before crash: crash somn: sleep ia:
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COMMENTS:
love - sammrorkeydork, 2011-02-17: 11:31:00
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Sleepatomomney
Created by: acarr23
Pronunciation: Sleep a tomo ney
Sentence: The driver suffers from sleepatomomney.
Etymology:
Inthezzzzoom
Created by: petaj
Pronunciation: in the zoom
Sentence: It always freaks me when I see other drivers operating their vehicles inthezoom.
Etymology: "in the zone" (being totally focussed on an activity) + zzzz (cartoon language for sleeping) + zoom (move fast, typically when driving a car)
Napigation
Created by: swallowedbyafish
Pronunciation:
Sentence: As I drove, I fell into a deep state of napigation.
Etymology: nap + navigation
Snoozecontrol
Created by: jedijawa
Pronunciation: snooze-con-troll
Sentence: Jill drove to work each day on snoozecontrol, barely aware of having made the trip and having no memory of any part of the 20 minute drive.
Etymology: snooze (half awake or less) + control (like cruise control only while in a semi-snooze)
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COMMENTS:
I like it! Gonna start tomorrow morning! - allwise, 2007-03-13: 05:00:00
Absolutely brilliant. - ErWenn, 2007-03-19: 01:46:00
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Snortopilot
Created by: rikboyee
Pronunciation: snore-toe-pie-lut
Sentence: she found herself constantly brakedancing while her dad was driving on snortopilot
Etymology: snore, autopilot
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COMMENTS:
thats quite a funny word. - erasmus, 2007-03-13: 06:36:00
the descriptive use is just as funny. (I have good visualisation skills.) - sunny09, 2007-03-13: 23:17:00
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Naplap
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: nap-lap
Sentence: Joyce has driven back and forth to work so many times that her car practically drives itself there. She gets her Fiesta onto Siesta Blvd., puts the car into snooze control and takes a naplap. On more than one occasion somebody has woken her in her parking spot without her remembering the drive.
Etymology: nap (light sleep) + lap (orbit, circuit)
Autopilotelepathy
Created by: Sketchy
Pronunciation: auto-pilo-te-lep-a-thy
Sentence: I've been using Autopilotelepathy to get around these days. It's much easier then having to actually drive with your eyes open.
Etymology: Auto (automatic) Pilot (person controlling the vehicle); Telepathy- Communication through means other than the senses, as by the exercise of an occult power. **In this case the ability to see whats happening on the road with eyes closed.
Sixsensigate
Created by: Ahmad
Pronunciation: siks-sensee-gaet
Sentence: Last night after the party, William's driving was totally a sixsensigate becuase he was drunk.
Etymology: six was taken from sixth and sens was taken from sense. sixth sense is an imaginary sense which is believed to work when the other five fail.gate is taken from a word navigate means to move.so, to move through sixth sense when rest of the sense are morbid or work less efficiently.
Comments:
Today's definition was suggested by purpleartichokes.
Thank you purpleartichokes! ~ James
Today's definition was suggested by purpleartichokes. Thank you purpleartichokes. ~ James