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DEFINITION: v. To sit in your car and repeatedly honk your horn, so that your passengers, who are waiting inside the house, know you are ready to go. n. A person who uses a car horn as an multi-purpose communication tool.

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Toottweet

artr

Created by: artr

Pronunciation: toottweet

Sentence: Jeremy has his own form of e-communications. Texting,Twitter? Not for him. When he wants to summon his girlfriend he tweets her with his car horn. And he expects her to appear toottweet.

Etymology: toot (to sound or blow a horn, whistle, or wind instrument) + tweet (to post on Twitter)a play on toot sweet (Quickly, immediately, at once. This word is a corruption of the French ‘tout de suite’, which literally means 'all at once')

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Hornicate

Created by: Biscotti

Pronunciation: hor nuh cay t

Sentence: Amy was blatantly ignoring John's hornication. She didn't really want to go out with him, and it was fun to annoy the neighbors.

Etymology: horn (beep beep!) + communicate (talk or convey a message)

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COMMENTS:

seriously hilarious - mweinmann, 2009-05-01: 11:40:00

and if she lived in California it would be califohornication - Jabberwocky, 2009-05-01: 13:40:00

Surely this is what a mommy rhino and a daddy rhino do when they love each other ver very much? - Eightbhall, 2013-08-29: 09:28:00

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Hornacular

Created by: kalex

Pronunciation: hor-naa-kew-ler

Sentence: Her mother spoke in the hornacular, just honking and honking rather than going to the door.

Etymology:

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Beepsiege

Created by: Jabberwocky

Pronunciation: beep/seege

Sentence: Sam was very impatient and would beepsiege Sally when he arrived at her house to take her for her driving lesson.

Etymology: beep + besiege (harass with requests)

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Honkvince

petaj

Created by: petaj

Pronunciation: rhymes with conkvince

Sentence: not only did Marty conkvince his family in the kitchen, from the warmth of his car he would honkvince them it was time to leave.

Etymology: conkvince (a previous verbotomy this week) + honk

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Rudetoot

libertybelle

Created by: libertybelle

Pronunciation: rewd-tewt

Sentence: It doesn't bother me so much that my neighbor gets picked up for work by the ambulance every day at 5 am, what really gets me is that her partner insists on summoning her with a rudetoot consisting of every siren for at least 10 minutes.

Etymology: rude + toot - also a play on rooty-toot.

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COMMENTS:

libertybelle oops, i didn't see that i came so close to someone else's word. I try to create before i read. Sorry! - libertybelle, 2009-05-04: 09:14:00

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Impatonk

Created by: Eightbhall

Pronunciation: Imp-a-tonk

Sentence: Collin was so frustrated that Jenny was still in the house that his genetic structure had bubbled up with rage and devolved down past the point of Neanderthal to Impatonk- and so it was that the whole street was now aware of his frustrations at having been made to wait.

Etymology: Impatient honking

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Toottootcommon

artr

Created by: artr

Pronunciation: toōttoōtkämən

Sentence: When Glen pulls up to pick up Jill, he acts like Tutankhamen, too good to get out of his custom chariot and ring the doorbell. Jill’s dad thinks of Glen as toottootcommon, an all-too-typical teenager with a all-too-noisy car horn. He hopes this is the only type of horn(y) he has to deal with.

Etymology: toottoot (a short, sharp sound made by a horn, trumpet, or similar instrument) + common (occurring, found, or done often; prevalent) a play on Tutankhamen - Egyptian pharaoh of the 18th dynasty

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COMMENTS:

De Nile ain't just a river in Egypt,as my Mummie would say! - Nosila, 2010-11-18: 21:57:00

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Impecintator

Created by: plezbme

Pronunciation: im perc ni ator

Sentence:

Etymology:

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Claxonator

Created by: Mustang

Pronunciation: clax-ehn-ayt-ehr

Sentence: Rufus was an ardent and often obnoxious claxonator who could always be depended upon to use his car horn as a signaling device, rather than just going to the door to alert folks that he's ready to roll.

Etymology: 'Claxon' (v. to sound loudly; - of car horns) with suffix '-ator' to denote one who 'does something'

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Comments:

Verbotomy Verbotomy - 2009-05-01: 00:01:01
Today's definition was suggested by metrohumanx. Thank you for giving us the honk! ~ James

splendiction - 2009-05-01: 16:47:00
I wasn't going to play today, but I couldn't resist your definition, metro!

mrskellyscl mrskellyscl - 2009-05-01: 17:52:00
These are all so good -- very talented wordsmiths.

abrakadeborah - 2009-05-02: 05:35:00
I haven't wanted to play all week here...but Metrohumnax you've always got the right words to say :) Great definition as always! I do come vote on my favs. I may come back one day and create again...I don't know yet...Ciao!

abrakadeborah - 2009-05-05: 01:15:00
OMGosh another freakin' typo..."Verbotoslap" me Metro! lol METROHUMANX* ya know you're one of my best friends on here...sorry about that typo... :)~ Great definitions as always Metro!

dochanne - 2009-05-06: 00:25:00
Nice.

Verbotomy Verbotomy - 2010-11-15: 00:15:00
Today's definition was suggested by metrohumanx. Thank you metrohumanx. ~ James