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DEFINITION: v. To drive around in circles in a parking lot, so that you can save time by finding the closest possible space to your final destination. n. A perfect parking spot.
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Parkonaut
Created by: Osomatic
Pronunciation: park + ah + naught
Sentence: He's such a parkanaut - he'll orbit the parking lot 42 times if he has to, just to save himself 30 feet of walking.
Etymology: park + astronaut
Circumparkalyze
Created by: Pasicheio
Pronunciation: Sir-Kum-Park-A-Lies
Sentence: Anne spent more than ten minutes circumparkalyzing just to avoid getting wet in the rain
Etymology: Circumnavigate; Park; Analyze
Circlelate
Created by: lumina
Pronunciation: sir/cul/ate
Sentence: No matter how late she was running, Diane could never resist the urge to circlelate just one more time.
Etymology: Root word-circulate: move through a space, circuit or system, returning to the starting point. Circle: lap: movement once around a course. Late: belated: after the expected or usual time; delayed.
Parculate
Created by: benjamin
Pronunciation: par-cue-late
Sentence: "Just pick a spot further out. I don't want to sit here and parculate all day."
Etymology: Park + Percolate
Circumnearthegate
Created by: pinwheel
Pronunciation: sir/cum/near/the/gate
Sentence: Although Polly was tempted to park in the disabled spaces and put on a limp, her better nature forced her to circumnearthegate again in search of a more legitimate space.
Etymology: circumnavigate (to navigate in a circle) + near the gate (to save the shoe-wear)
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COMMENTS:
good in a roundabout way. - galwaywegian, 2007-05-03: 05:23:00
funny! - Jabberwocky, 2007-05-03: 11:03:00
Nicely done! - HubbMU, 2007-05-03: 12:39:00
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Storbit
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: stor bit
Sentence: When Venus Houston went to the mall, she would drive around for hours to get the closest spot to her final destination. In other words, she would storbit around rows of vehicles before she came in for a landing in a spot that was not for the disabled/seniors/taxis/young parents. She figured that these storbits were her mission and why they called a free spot a parking "space". Houston, we have a problem...
Etymology: Store (a mercantile establishment for the retail sale of goods or services) & Orbit ( the (usually elliptical) path described by one celestial body in its revolution about another)
Parkle
Created by: pepperpatti
Pronunciation: the way it looks: "sparkle" -s
Sentence: Linda didn't want to have to worry about walking with her bags after the big sale, so she parkled for 20 minutes.
Etymology: park (to stop your car in a designated spot) + circle (v., to go around in the shape of a circle)
Walthargy
Created by: HubbMU
Pronunciation: wal-thar-gy
Sentence: My sense of walthargy keeps me from parking in the back.
Etymology: Wal-Mart, due to its largess of parking (and people), and lethargy.
Comments:
Today's definition was suggested by jedijawa.
Thank you jedijawa! ~ James
jedijawa - 2007-05-03: 13:31:00
This one was inspired by my dad who did this all the time when I was growing up. My word for it is lotvulture.
The scarey part is when lotvultures dive in for the kill. Especially when two of them are going for the same spot. ~ James
Mustang - 2008-07-15: 19:45:00
Good one.