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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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Malignajoggers
Created by: toralora
Pronunciation: mal/i/gna/djogg/ehrs
Sentence: Those malignajoggers ran over my aunt.
Etymology: Malignent + joggers
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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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)
Pedoton
Created by: jedijawa
Pronunciation: ped-oh-tawn
Sentence: The marathoners ran in a pedoton which moved like a phalanx through the streets and traffic of the city.
Etymology: ped (foot) + peloton (cycilng pack)
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COMMENTS:
This is a very good word which I think runners will like... even they do roll over a few of the slower moving peds. - wordmeister, 2007-03-01: 00:15:00
Yes, I thought peloton would be good too, but liked the image of the way amoeba move. - petaj, 2007-03-01: 04:57:00
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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)
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
Swarmenemies
Created by: magenta
Pronunciation:
Sentence: Swarmenemies are my sworn enemies when I'm trying to drive to work
Etymology:
Streetfleet
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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COMMENTS:
good one - galwaywegian, 2009-09-21: 14:31:00
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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.
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...
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