Verboticisms

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)

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Created by: LotusB

Pronunciation: INCH-icle

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Etymology: Inch (inch forward/creep) + Vehicle = Inchicle

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Created by: CEE1ESS

Pronunciation: Lite-frog-ing

Sentence: She was always lightfrogging the red signal, trying to gain some time in the morning.

Etymology: from light and leapfrog

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COMMENTS:

Very descriptive, and creative! Nice one. - Tigger, 2007-12-06: 11:48:00

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Created by: Jabberwocky

Pronunciation: inch/car/ih/jibble

Sentence: Sally was an inchcarrigible driver who couldn't resist the thrill of accelerating. Whenever possible she drove barefoot.

Etymology: incorrigible (hopeless, incurable)+ inch + car

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COMMENTS:

Very clever!! - Mustang, 2008-10-30: 06:37:00

Driving barefoot is illegal in New Jersey. Another reason to move elsewhere. - metrohumanx, 2008-10-30: 13:43:00

Mustang Sally rocks! - metrohumanx, 2008-10-30: 13:52:00

If you are barefoot, I think you can actually feel the light change too! - mweinmann, 2008-10-30: 14:03:00

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Created by: zxvasdf

Pronunciation: Green dy

Sentence: The heliograph of sirens flickered on Bob's face as he walked slowly around the crumpled piece of tin that was once his car; Jane, the damsel to whom he was en route, was on his mind and he became a bit too greendy... until before long he found himself in the middle of the intersection with a frightening semi-truck on one end and an equally terrifying Mack truck on the other end. Bob, groaning inwardly, would have to postpone his date. The price of being greendy!

Etymology: Green (as in green light) & greedy (gluttonous)

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COMMENTS:

Wow. - metrohumanx, 2008-10-30: 13:53:00

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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

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Created by: Nuwanda

Pronunciation: Jet-a-mind-trik

Sentence: Amalia was a pro at the Jettamindtrick. She knew that, with the magical power of her car and her superior mind, she could persuade other drivers at a four-way stop that she was there first, she could merge across four lanes of traffic at rush hour and yes, she could get a leading green arrow even as the only car in the turn lane. Sadly, however, she over-reached her "powers" when she tried to silently dissuade a state trooper from giving her a speeding ticket. After seeing her make odd, painful looking facial contortions at him, the trooper not only wrote her a ticket, he had her take a road side sobriety test as well.

Etymology: Jedi mind trick from Star Wars altered to incorporate Jetta, the Volkswagen sedan.

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Amalia should run into Heidi on a deserted back road. - metrohumanx, 2008-10-30: 02:24:00

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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: porsche

Pronunciation: gas/hop/pur

Sentence: Do you hear the gashopper that is at your feet? (blatant Kung Fu reference)

Etymology: gas + hop + grasshopper

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Created by: artr

Pronunciation: jēpərkrēpər

Sentence: Willy doesn't trust traffic lights. He is a jeepercreeper. Whenever he comes to a red light he will inch forward to get the sensor to trigger a green light. His friend G.P. once told him that many of the sensors in the road are designed for larger cars so he wants to allow a second car to get into the sensor zone to make sure that he doesn't have to sit at the light forever.

Etymology: Jeep (a small, sturdy motor vehicle with four-wheel drive, esp. one used by the military) Jeepers (exclamation used to express surprise or alarm) + creeper (one who moves slowly and carefully, esp. in order to avoid being heard or noticed)

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COMMENTS:

Good one!! Maybe Willy should move up to a Heavy Chevy? - Mustang, 2008-10-30: 06:40:00

great word - Jabberwocky, 2008-10-30: 11:08:00

Good word, Centurion. Those sensors gang aft agley. - metrohumanx, 2008-10-30: 13:46:00

nicely done....like this one! - mweinmann, 2008-10-30: 13:59:00

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