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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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Prickspack
Created by: Osomatic
Pronunciation: pricks + pack
Sentence: I got bowled over by that a prickspack this morning - why can't they look where they're going?
Etymology: Well, you've heard of a six 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.
Marathrong
Created by: Stevenson0
Pronunciation: mar/a/throng
Sentence: The marathrong consisted of over a thousand runners who ignored the light signals and blocked the intersection for three light changes.
Etymology: marathon + throng
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COMMENTS:
very nice - petaj, 2007-03-01: 04:53:00
another great word - Jabberwocky, 2007-03-01: 09:19:00
I like it - mugglesport, 2007-03-01: 10:40:00
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Amoebdash
Created by: petaj
Pronunciation: a-MEEB-dash
Sentence: The frantic crowd panicked, breaking into a run to form an amoebdash. From the helicopter above it looked like a giant amoeba oozing through the city streets taking traffic and pedestrians in its path.
Etymology: amoeba (a single cell organism characterised by a jelly-like mass of cytoplasm that forms temporary extensions) + mob (crowd) + dash (run fast)
Stampedophiles
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: stam ped o fyls
Sentence: The Stampedophiles were galloping en masse down Fourth Avenue. Their goal was to get to the Calgary Stampede after having watched the Stampeders get trounced by the Eskimos (again). Like the bison who used to roam this area, they trampled everything in their way.
Etymology: Stampede (a headlong rush of people on a common impulse) & Pedo (Greek:of on foot/on soil/about children) & Philes (Greek:attracted to;Loves)
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
Gangruntality
Created by: mrskellyscl
Pronunciation: gang-run-tal-i-ty
Sentence: When Jason ran with his group he joined a gangruntality with his fellow runners as they blatantly disregarded all traffic laws, daring people to honk or swear at them. His mother told him never to get involved with a gang, but he couldn't help it. This was the street, and jogging alone here was asking for trouble. Besides, running through stop signs and knocking down old ladies made him feel rebellious and free, just like James Dean -- a runner without a cause.
Etymology: From "gang mentality": a feeling that allows individual members of a group feel invincible, larger in importance or strengthened -- often used in reference to street gang behavior + Gang: refers to a herd of buffalo, elk, or a pack or wild dogs; a group of people who engage in wrongdoing + run: jog + mentality: attitude or way of thinking
Trackpack
Created by: porsche
Pronunciation: trak/pak
Sentence: The trackpack parted the crowd like Moses parting the Red Sea
Etymology: Track + pack
Jogmob
Created by: allwise
Pronunciation: Djogg-mobb
Sentence: As he crossed the intersection, John felt some shaking in the Hummvee's suspension; he had just run over a whole jogmob! And looking back he saw that it was the complete Olympics marathon-team!
Etymology: to jog + a mob
Herdaling
Created by: erasmus
Pronunciation: her dah ling
Sentence: the team ran so close to each other they were herdaling together.
Etymology: from herding and hurdling
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