Verboticisms

Created by: OZZIEBOB

Pronunciation: LOB-ee-HWEELZ

Sentence: As Roxie was constantly lobbying "City Hall" to provide more parking spaces nearer to the entrance and lobbies of buildings and other complexes, she was known by her friends, for more than one reason, as "Lobbywheels."

Etymology: LOBBY: large entrance hall in a public building, ie shopping centre; modern sporting stadium & WHEELS: (Slang): a car; or a metonym? for car enthusiast or a driver. COGNATES: Lobbywheel; Lobbywheeling, Lobbywheeler

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COMMENTS:

nice sentence - Jabberwocky, 2008-07-15: 16:20:00

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Created by: ratbastid

Pronunciation: Cir-cum-LOT-i-gate

Sentence: While all her friends were inside enjoying crumpets, scones, and tea, Fiona--ever the parking space snob--circumlotigated like a whale trapped in the Hudson River.

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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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Created by: overgroove

Pronunciation: Sir-cum-park-you-late.

Sentence: Eyes puckered and her hands white on the steering wheel, Linda McPale, circumparkulated outside the local Walmart.

Etymology: Derived from the latin circum meaning to inscribe or define a circle and the English park, meaning to set ones car in a stationary state.

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Created by: petaj

Pronunciation: vee-HISH-us-circle

Sentence: Gloria's vehiciouscircling enraged everyone else in the car. Her passengers could not convince her that she was just trading off shoe leather for gas. But she was determined to outmanoeuvre the other vehiciouscirclers for the best spot, even if it led to a fender bender.

Etymology: vicious circle + vehicle

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COMMENTS:

ridehiculous - galwaywegian, 2007-05-03: 05:21:00

another inspired word - Jabberwocky, 2007-05-03: 11:06:00

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Created by: artr

Pronunciation: bəmpərstôkng

Sentence: Joyce is an expert at bumperstalking. As people leave a store she will pull in behind them to follow them back to their car. She creeps up so close to some people that they jump and scream when she brushes the back of their legs. Once they pass the 5th car in line she drops them like a bad habit and circles around for another victim.

Etymology: bumper (a horizontal bar fixed across the front or back of a motor vehicle to reduce damage in a collision) + stalking (pursue or approach stealthily)

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Created by: verysimplegame

Pronunciation: car-cum-nah-vi-gate

Sentence: Having lost the THIRD space to a freakin' vulture, Dawn decided to carcumnavigate on the Macy's side of the mall.

Etymology: car + circumnavigate

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Created by: porsche

Pronunciation: row/zy/park/ur

Sentence: She was such a roseyparker that nothing was ever perfect enough for her.

Etymology: nosey parker + rosey (perfect) + park

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Created by: MemyselfnI

Pronunciation: han-dee-lapped

Sentence: Larry had the nearly completed listening to the entire Beatles White album waiting for that perfect spot, at the same time being handilapped by hundreds of shoppers.

Etymology: Handicapped - lapped These folks who require handicap like parking, ultimately get lapped by all other reasonable parkers.

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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)

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