Verboticisms

Created by: Snark

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Created by: quippingqueen

Pronunciation: jog/hogs

Sentence: As the joghogs approached the intersection, three cars rear-ended one another, two LOLs out for a leisurely stroll shook their index fingers, and one burly basset hound without a leash waddled along after them.

Etymology: jog + hogs

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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.

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Created by: purpleartichokes

Pronunciation: sink-run-id-ee-uts

Sentence: Before they set out to create the day's jogjam, the syncrunidiots would recite their daily prayer: Yea that we know red from green, deliver us from under the wheels of public transit...

Etymology: synchronize, run, idiots

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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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Created by: artr

Pronunciation: kləstərfläk

Sentence: Roger continued to root for his home team despite the fact that they were a complete clusterflock.

Etymology: cluster (a group of similar objects growing closely together) + flock (a number of birds of one kind feeding, resting, or traveling together) A play off of cluster(expletive)

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Created by: mweinmann

Pronunciation: street - fleet

Sentence: The Mount Prospect runners group had become a streetfleet. There were now 25 of them running togehter and darting in and out of traffic.... They were fast, but they were dangerous.

Etymology: street, fleet (moving very fast; "fleet of foot,A group of vessels or vehicles)

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good one - galwaywegian, 2009-09-21: 14:31:00

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Created by: Ahmad

Pronunciation: raik-kru

Sentence: Tahir is a member of school raccrew.

Etymology: Race + Crew

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Created by: galwaywegian

Pronunciation: jog err nawt

Sentence: He could tell by the flash of dayglo on the horizon and the faraway sound of panting that the joggernaut had hit the outskirts

Etymology: jogger juggernaut

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Created by: galwaywegian

Pronunciation: jopg gur nawtt

Sentence: The joggernaut appeared large and quite formidable as it came down the road. It was amazing how one small(cranky) pitbull could cause such a massive effect.

Etymology: juggernaut, jog

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COMMENTS:

good word...run with it! - Nosila, 2009-09-21: 12:26:00

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