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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.
Verboticisms
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Carbit
Created by: rikboyee
Pronunciation: car-bit
Sentence: she wanted to go shopping but she was stuck in carbit
Etymology: car, orbit
Carouselect
Created by: Jabberwocky
Pronunciation: ker/us/seh/lekt
Sentence: To carouselect can prove to be very dangerous if you suffer from vertigo. Sue often spun in circles around her car after she'd found the perfect spot
Etymology: carousel (merry go round) + select
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COMMENTS:
Good one. Sounds like she needs a lapperscopy. - purpleartichokes, 2007-05-03: 07:22:00
ha ha or her very own retreadmill - Jabberwocky, 2007-05-03: 11:01:00
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Parkticular
Created by: toadstool57
Pronunciation: park-tik-you-lur
Sentence: Jill had her coupons in hand for the huge sale. If she hadn't been so parkticular about getting the closest parking space, she might have got in the store before it closed.
Etymology: park, particular
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.
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)
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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Parkadise
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: park a die ssss
Sentence: After circling for three hours he found parkadise, a nirvana for his van within inches of the gas station which he would need after the game.
Etymology: paradise park
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
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)
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.