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DEFINITION: v., To slowly inch your vehicle forward at a red traffic light hoping that you can make it change faster. n., A driver who allows their vehicle to creep into the middle of an intersection while waiting for a red light.
Verboticisms
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Usethefordsluke
Created by: rikboyee
Pronunciation: yooz-thuh-fordz-luuk
Sentence: he deseperately needed the light to turn green, and suddenly a voice came into his head, 'usethefordsluke'. so he turned off his GPS and started inching his ford [millennium] falcon forward.
Etymology: use the force luke, ford
Wickcellerate
Created by: zavijava
Pronunciation: Wick-cel-er-ate
Sentence: Tapping her fingers on the wheel, Sandy wickcelerated further and further over the white line while she waited for the light. In the next lane, Nora, trying to see the street sign now blocked by Sandra's car, remarked "I hate wickceleraters!"
Etymology: wick (to draw off by capillary action; the slow, inevitable motion of something, without any outside force actually being applied; the annoying and unstoppable movement of water up the legs of your jeans after coming in from the rain) + accelerate
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COMMENTS:
Very good! I love modified etymologisms. - metrohumanx, 2008-10-30: 13:13:00
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Traffikinesis
Created by: xirtam
Pronunciation: trāf'ĭ-kə-nē'sĭs
Sentence: Mary had to pee, she eased her vehicle way past the "Stop here on red" sign in hoping it would trigger some sort of traffikinesis which would make the light turn green. Mary doesn't think logically when she is stuck in traffic and has to pee.
Etymology: Traffic: Vehicles or pedestrians in transit. + Telekinesis: The movement of objects by scientifically inexplicable means, as by the exercise of an occult power.
Creapred
Created by: bzma0501
Pronunciation: kri-prEd
Sentence: The creapred girl kept rolling on through the intersection.
Etymology: from English, "creap" + "red"
Neocolorhopeful
Created by: gemmgemms
Pronunciation: nee-oh-ca-lore-ho-pa-ful
Sentence: She was one of the many neocolorhopefuls at the intersection trying to change the light with merely their miner brain capacity and the movement of their car.
Etymology: neo:new + color + hopeful
Inchersecting
Created by: mrskellyscl
Pronunciation: inchersecting
Sentence: Jane believed that she needed to be inchersecting at every red light in order to continue driving, a notion she'd had since she was little. Her father would entertain her by inching up at traffic signals far enough that he could see when the light in the opposite direction turned yellow. Then he would count to three and say, "abracadabra," making her believe that he had magical powers to change red lights.
Etymology: inch: to move forward slowly in small increments + intersecting: to cut across or through as at an intersection of a road
Redvancer
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: red van ser
Sentence: Despite learning the opposite in driving school, when Polly graduated and started driving, she developed bad habits. Her latest was to become a Redvancer...someone who tries to make the red light faster by inching forward. On this day she inadvertantly did her Redvancer trick in front of a patrol car. Was she ever amazed to be ticketed for coming to a rolling stop and failing to yield to a stop sign. Polly paid $250 to learn her lesson and withdraw from the Redvancer Club.
Etymology: Red (stoplight colour) & Advancer (someone who is moving forward toward a goal)
Pilfermeter
Created by: thegoatisbad
Pronunciation: 'pil-fer-me-ter
Sentence: "I must not be tripping the signal" said Kimberly as she pilfermetered her way through the intersection. "Maybe you've passed it?" suggested Loretta. Kimberly reluctantly reversed several car lengths until she was as far behind the white line as she had been in front of it. "Oh, I'm sure this is much better" Kimberly quipped. But the joke was on Kimberly since she forgot to put her car into "drive" before impatiently accelerating into the car behind her.
Etymology: pilfer (stealthy and incremental theft) + meter (standard metric unit of measure)
Autokinesis
Created by: Stevenson0
Pronunciation: aw/toh/ki/nee/sis
Sentence: Autokinesis occurs at a red light when I let my car inch forward into the intersection. Unfailingly, the traffic light changes almost immediately to green. It's weird and it's scary, but my Chevy Impala and I have autokenisis, or metaphysical powers,which together we can break down any city's computerized traffic flow.
Etymology: AUTOKINESIS - noun - from - AUTOMOBILE (as in a car) + PSYCHOKINESIS (distorting, or moving physical objects using only the mind)
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COMMENTS:
excellent! - Jabberwocky, 2008-10-30: 11:05:00
Impalas should always have the right of way. Fuzzy dice? - metrohumanx, 2008-10-30: 13:51:00
Great word! - mweinmann, 2008-10-30: 14:01:00
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Greenfluence
Created by: milorush
Pronunciation: green - flu - ence
Sentence: Sometimes ya just gotta greenfluence the light a little to get the thing to change.
Etymology: green (as in light) + [in]fluence
Comments:
Today's definition was suggested by Tigger and libertybelle. Thank you Tigger and libertybelle. ~ James
Tigger - 2007-12-06: 00:32:00
Actually, libertybelle should get sole credit. I should've read through the recent definitions before submitting mine.
i still say great minds think alike... though some say filthy minds think alike, as well... hmmm...
silveryaspen - 2007-12-06: 19:11:00
flows smoothly ... readily understood ... nice interplay of words.
silveryaspen - 2007-12-06: 19:14:00
like the first 2 syllable rhyme ... the word rolls off the tongue. The meaning is straightforward and implicit.
Today's definition was suggested by libertybelle. Thank you libertybelle. ~ James