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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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Recarnnoiter
Created by: karenanne
Pronunciation: REH car NOY ter
Sentence: Stacy carefully recarnnoitered the terrain, searching for the one perfect spot that would land her closest to the mall entrance. It didn't do her any good in the end, though, because when she left, after closing, she went out the wrong side of the mall and the door locked behind her. She had to walk halfway around the mall in the dark, through ice and snow, with her big packages, to find her car. "Next time," she thought to herself, "I'm going to do more careful recarnnaissance before I park."
Etymology: car + reconnoiter
Zoltokan
Created by: Udrihel
Pronunciation: Zoltokan
Sentence: Zoltokan sudmad ibib ubkan! = Nothing,about war is beautiful!
Etymology:
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.
Carbit
Created by: rikboyee
Pronunciation: car-bit
Sentence: she wanted to go shopping but she was stuck in carbit
Etymology: car, orbit
Sharppark
Created by: grahaff
Pronunciation: sharp park
Sentence: The IKEA parking lot was huge. We then saw the perfect sharppark and settled in.
Etymology: sharp (smart) park (park)
Lobbywheels
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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Spotwagging
Created by: foxwerx
Pronunciation: spot + wag + ing
Sentence: Your foolhardy spotwagging is going to make us late for the movie.
Etymology: parking spot + tail wagging
Loopyparkobsess
Created by: heb319
Pronunciation: loop eee park ub ses
Sentence: Although Susan was really just wasting time and gas, she was certain if she continued to loopyparkobesess long enough she would find the greatest parking space humanity had ever created.
Etymology: loop park obsess
Spiralyzing
Created by: jonobo
Pronunciation: spiral-i-sing
Sentence: She was spiralyzing in the parking lot, a lot. A lot of spiralyzing was going on today in the parking lot. In the end she was totally spiralyzed.
Etymology: paralyzed + spiral = spiralyzing. why ? because in the end you are paralyzed while moving round in circles. maybe you would have been faster by taking the next best parking-place and walk the rest ? no spiralyzing, no fun.
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.