Verboticisms

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

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Created by: remistram

Pronunciation: red-led-foot

Sentence: Redleadfooting is one of the main causes of road rage stabbings & deaths.

Etymology: red (as in red traffic light)+ lead (as in metal or heavy) + foot

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Created by: yellowbird

Pronunciation: drag lite ing

Sentence: Days after buying his minivan, Tom finally realized that he could no longer draglight without feeling a lasting sense of shame and self loathing.

Etymology: drag racing + light

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Created by: hendrixius

Pronunciation: /lite-run-ning/

Sentence: Though she did not ever completely blow through a stoplight, Jill had the habit of literunning ever red-light she encountered.

Etymology: "running" a red "light" and "lite", as in Lite Beer - a little less than full on "Lightrunning"

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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)

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Created by: galwaywegian

Pronunciation: hinn tur sek shun

Sentence: somehow the gods of the intersection were immune to her hintersection

Etymology: intersection hint

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COMMENTS:

ooh - good one - Jabberwocky, 2008-10-30: 11:07:00

Why are there no "GO" signs? - metrohumanx, 2008-10-30: 13:10:00

Hinteresting word! - Nosila, 2008-10-31: 01:54:00

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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.

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Created by: artr

Pronunciation: slōrīdər

Sentence: Linda has the patience of a gnat. Red lights drive her crazy. When she gets caught at one she becomes a slowrider, creeping ahead until she is almost halfway into the intersection. Fellow motorists think she is just a creep.

Etymology: slow (moving or operating, or designed to do so, only at a low speed) lowrider (a customized vehicle with hydraulic jacks that allow the chassis to be lowered nearly to the road)

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Created by: bzma0501

Pronunciation: kri-prEd

Sentence: The creapred girl kept rolling on through the intersection.

Etymology: from English, "creap" + "red"

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Created by: Mustang

Pronunciation: an-TISS-uh-lurch

Sentence: When she was at the head of the line waiting for the red light to change Miranda would employ her anticilurch technique wherein she would creep out into the intersection ever so slightly ready to blast off ahead of the other cars waiting.

Etymology: Blend of anticipate and lurch

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great combo - Jabberwocky, 2008-10-30: 11:06:00

At least Miranda didn't sit there texting... - metrohumanx, 2008-10-30: 13:49:00

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