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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.
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Zonecrowd
Created by: Koekbroer
Pronunciation: zown-croud
Sentence: Rachel was locked in a zonecrowd of runners toward the end of the marathon.
Etymology: zone, crowd
Trackpack
Created by: porsche
Pronunciation: trak/pak
Sentence: The trackpack parted the crowd like Moses parting the Red Sea
Etymology: Track + pack
Jorg
Created by: jonobo
Pronunciation: Jorg like Borg. [Jogmob was the first and nearly logical association i had with this definition, but bruce-unfortunate-lee i was some weeks late...)
Sentence: "Walking is futile" was the last thing i heard before i joined the Jorg.
Etymology: Jogging Mob + Borg = Jorg.
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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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
Joggernaut
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: jog gur naught
Sentence: The joggernaut ran over two miles, four hundred metres and three buggies.
Etymology: juggernaut, jogger
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COMMENTS:
I need to find a joggernaut stompede to help me deal with my woeful caloregret. Darn Girl Scouts! (you got my vote!) - Alchemist, 2007-03-01: 07:47:00
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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
Herdjog
Created by: paintergrl1313
Pronunciation: Herd-Jog
Sentence: That herdjog almost got run over by a tractor trailer.
Etymology: Herd + Jog
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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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