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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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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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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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Malignajoggers

Created by: toralora

Pronunciation: mal/i/gna/djogg/ehrs

Sentence: Those malignajoggers ran over my aunt.

Etymology: Malignent + joggers

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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.

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Clusterflock

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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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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)

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Raccrew

Created by: Ahmad

Pronunciation: raik-kru

Sentence: Tahir is a member of school raccrew.

Etymology: Race + Crew

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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'

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Egotrippers

Created by: josje

Pronunciation: egotrippers

Sentence: they are a bunch of egotrippers

Etymology: ego and tripping as in beeing totally in yourselve.

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Raffic

Created by: aj3131

Pronunciation: Raffic

Sentence: There was a lot of raffic on the street this morning.

Etymology: R(unning)+(Tr)affic

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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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Comments:

Verbotomy Verbotomy - 2007-03-01: 00:00:01
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!

Verbotomy Verbotomy - 2009-09-21: 00:05:00
Today's definition was suggested by Jabberwocky. Thank you Jabberwocky. ~ James

mutya123 - 2011-02-03: 07:15:00
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