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DEFINITION: n. A group of runners that moves as a single entity, ignoring traffic signals and pedestrians alike. v. To run in a herd without watching where you are going.
Verboticisms
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Floorit
Created by: BMott
Pronunciation: floor/it
Sentence: The group of runners in their little silky shorts ignored the traffic signal. She grinned as she gunned it and said "Yeehaw, a group of floorits!"
Etymology: Floor: Put the pedal to the medal. It
Jogstalt
Created by: ErWenn
Pronunciation: /ˌdʒɑɡˈʃtɑlt/
Sentence: The optimum size of a jogstalt is between four and seven runners. Larger groups tend to stretch and then splinter unless the sidewalk is very wide, and runners in smaller groups retain too much independence.
Etymology: From jog + gestalt
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COMMENTS:
Too obscure, perhaps? - ErWenn, 2007-03-01: 01:28:00
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Amaurotang
Created by: rickki
Pronunciation: amaurotang is a mixture of amaurotic which means blindness and gang. said like am-or-o-tang
Sentence: "Gosh look at that amorotang mum!"
Etymology:
Demolcrashic
Created by: kateh
Pronunciation: dem-uhl-crash-ik
Sentence: One of these days I'm going to run over one of the members of this demolcrashic that runs down this street every Saturday morning when they are taking over the road.
Etymology: demolish (to ruin or destroy) + demographic (the statistical data of a population) + crash (to collide, especially violently and noisily)
Joggang
Created by: bettyann9
Pronunciation: jogang
Sentence: Did you see that joggang? They nearly ran down an old lady. Fraggin joggang bangers.
Etymology: jog+gang
Raffic
Created by: aj3131
Pronunciation: Raffic
Sentence: There was a lot of raffic on the street this morning.
Etymology: R(unning)+(Tr)affic
Stampedestrians
Created by: Discoveria
Pronunciation: Stam-peed-est-tree-ans
Sentence: Traffic came to a standstill after a collision in which a truck clearly had more momentum than the stampedestrians it bowled over.
Etymology: Stampede + pedestrians. Bit of a near miss, since the definition calls for a collective noun...
Antiholisticmissle
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: antīhōlistikmisəl
Sentence: The group of runners move in perfect unison, step for step as they careen toward the finish line, not thinking or caring about the condition of any of their members. Like an antiholisticmissle they streak across the landscape incurring blisters, cramps, dehydration and near stroke conditions, jettisoning weaker runners like spent fuel, all to show how healthy they are.
Etymology: anti (opposed to; against) + holistic (characterized by comprehension of the parts of something as intimately interconnected and explicable only by reference to the whole) + missle (a weapon that is self-propelled) A play on anti-ballistic missle
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COMMENTS:
What are they running from?? - Nosila, 2009-09-21: 12:29:00
SCUDs - artr, 2009-09-21: 17:51:00
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Fluck
Created by: w5lf9s
Pronunciation: fluk
Sentence: It was great fun to do their jogging in the middle of of the city at rush hour and as a fluck they couldn't be ignored! people slowed down or stopped their cars to let them through.
Etymology: amalgamate of flock and truck
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COMMENTS:
Fluck as in "what the fluck? Get out of the way!!!"? - Discoveria, 2007-03-01: 11:13:00
I'll be using this word to describe a lot of annoying groups of things. - purpleartichokes, 2007-03-01: 11:59:00
.. and not just "groups of things". Some of those runners are flucking egopists takeing up half of the road! - w5lf9s, 2007-03-01: 13:21:00
How about the always present fluck of movie-goers ever-so-slowly ambling out of the theater? Makes me want to scream "Fire!" - purpleartichokes, 2007-03-01: 18:30:00
..or that fluck of ants, in single file no less, going in and out of your pantry.. - w5lf9s, 2007-03-01: 19:11:00
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Herdathon
Created by: Guthlaf1
Pronunciation: HER-da-THON
Sentence: I was walking my dog this morning when a herdathon ploughed into us - and then were shocked when three of them tripped over the dog-leash!
Etymology: 'herd' - a group of (often-) mindless beasts '-thon' - as in 'marathon'
Comments:
Today's definition was suggested by Jabberwocky.
Thank you Jabberwocky! ~ James
ErWenn - 2007-03-01: 20:50:00
Lots of similar thinking on this one.
wordmeister - 2007-03-01: 22:10:00
Hey ErWenn, The way I see it there are two groups of words here. Those who like runners:Easystriders, Pedoton, Marathrong, and your Jogstalt. And those who don't: Stompede, Jogmob, Syncrunidiots, Stampedestrian, and the Shoekluxklan! Overall -- very creative!
Today's definition was suggested by Jabberwocky. Thank you Jabberwocky. ~ James
mutya123 - 2011-02-03: 07:15:00
heeheheheh