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DEFINITION: v. To hurry up and wait. n. A person who compels you to prepare quickly for an activity which they know will be delayed, postponed or retarded.

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Accelerwait

Created by: Stevenson0

Pronunciation: ak/sel/er/weyt

Sentence: John must be early for everything, especially on business trips out of town. This panic causes him to accelerwait. He rushes to the airport only to have to bide his time for hours waiting for his flight.

Etymology: accelerate + wait

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COMMENTS:

Nice one! - Tigger, 2008-04-22: 23:33:00

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Slomentum

artr

Created by: artr

Pronunciation: slōmentəm

Sentence: Jerry loved to see the impatient motorist who just couldn't seem to break traffic-light slomentum. This jerk came rushing up behind Jerry, flashing his high beams, honking his horn, ducking into the next lane over and zooming past as if he was the only one who had somewhere to go. That's when he was stalled by the first of a series of red lights. The smirk on Jerry's face grew with each successive stop. Just to rub it in, as he came up behind "Mr. Impatient" at about the 4th light, he flashed his high beams.

Etymology: slow (moving or operating only at a low speed) + momentum (the quantity of motion of a moving body, measured as a product of its mass and velocity)

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Anticiwait

Created by: arrrteest

Pronunciation: an-tiss-uh-wayt

Sentence: Joel knew it would look ridiculous to the non-believers, but he didn't care. Tickets for the band didn't go on sale for another three days. He remembered the last time he waited for the latest video game console to come out -- he took his time and got there 36 hours before the release date and was 9th in line. He wasn't going to let that happen again. He was going to anticiwait as long as it took to be first in line.

Etymology: Anticipate + wait

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Speedown

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Created by: master

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Hustlewait

Created by: OZZIEBOB

Pronunciation: HUHS-uhl-weyt

Sentence: At the first sign of a sneeze or sore throat, Bob coerced Roxie to ring the local funeral home's hotline to make arrangement for his funeral. Funereal, at first, then finally foaming, she told him that if he didn't come to his senses immediately, and stop being such a husslewait, that the consequences may be graver for him, sooner than he thought.

Etymology: Conflation of HUSTLE: To coerce, cause someone to move or pressure someone into action & WAIT: to put off, defer, delay, postpone.

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COMMENTS:

he might get it in spades - Jabberwocky, 2008-04-22: 12:27:00

Oh man, your sentence really made me chuckle, Bob. - Tigger, 2008-04-22: 23:29:00

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Rushstop

mrskellyscl

Created by: mrskellyscl

Pronunciation: rush-stop

Sentence: Max and June sat at the rushstop for a half hour while the driver finished his coffee and donuts. When the bus finally did show up they discovered that they left in such a hurry they forgot to pack their tickets.

Etymology: (play on bus-stop)

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Scootsuite

Created by: Nosila

Pronunciation: skoot sweet

Sentence: Jerry figured that jet lag was not really caused by the effect of travelling long distances in a short period on the human body. No, he knew it was really the effect of scootsuite on passengers. You know, where you race to line up and wait to run to yet another lineup and wait and eventually end up at an airport gate and have to wait forever for the plane to arrive, deplane, clean-up and reboard passengers. It often was hours before you actually got on a plane. the gates they were like hotel rooms, without the beds, comfortable seating or other basic amenities (like room service. In other words, jet lag was the act of being tired out even before you finally boarded the plane!

Etymology: Scoot (run or move very quickly or hastily) & Suite (apartment consisting of a series of connected rooms used as a living unit (as in a hotel)) & rhymes with Tout de suite(French for At Once)

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Franticipator

DrWebsterIII

Created by: DrWebsterIII

Pronunciation: fran - tis - uh - peyt - er

Sentence: What Frank hadn't franticipated , would be that Denise would be asking for a divorce on this their final vacation together. She was at wits' end exhausted by his never ending foreboding.

Etymology: frantic (excessively agitated; transported with rage) + anticipate (to nullify, prevent by taking countermeasures in advance)

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Queuetard

youmustvotenato

Created by: youmustvotenato

Pronunciation: kyoo-tard

Sentence: The plane landed, immediately all the queuetards stand up and eagerly get into line to exit the plane.

Etymology: queue-line of people; retard-slow AND dumb

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Prodcrastinator

Created by: Jabberwocky

Pronunciation: prod/cras/tin/ay/tor

Sentence: Jim was a hopeless prodcrastinator. He woke his girlfriend up at 5 every morning so they would be on time for work and then thought of endless tasks to complete which made them late every day.

Etymology: prod + procrastinator

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COMMENTS:

Clever Blend. Thanks for the welcome back. Unfortunately, carpenters, cables and computers don't mix well - hope to stay online, but that's the $64???? at the moment! - OZZIEBOB, 2008-04-22: 07:35:00

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Comments:

Verbotomy Verbotomy - 2008-04-22: 00:01:00
Today's definition was suggested by Nosila. Thank you Nosila. ~ James

Verbotomy Verbotomy - 2009-06-05: 00:00:00
Today's definition was suggested by Nosila. Thank you Nosila. ~ James