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DEFINITION: A group of runners that moves as a single entity, ignoring traffic signals and pedestrians alike.
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Maramob
Created by: itsme
Pronunciation: May-rah-mawb
Sentence: Suzy was annoyed when she almost ran over the maramob.
Etymology: marathon; mob
Crascade
Created by: OZZIEBOB
Pronunciation: KRAS-kade
Sentence: Bob was walking along the road by the seaside, munching on a doughnut, when all of sudden a pack of runners careered by. He watched them go by in awe, and the sight was enough to make him toss the doughnut in a bin, and become part of this athplethe. Little did he know that his chance meeting with this crascade and their ranipulations would be the start of a two-hour-long, helotonic roadmare.
Etymology: Blend of crass & cade of motorcade, etc. Crass:lacking in discrimination & sensibilty; -cade: procession of people travelling in motorcars (also cavalcade & cascade). Heletonic : blend of hell & peloton & ic.
Autoimpede
Created by: noztril
Pronunciation: aw toh im peed
Sentence: The floats and marching band came to a screeching halt as the autoimpede passed by
Etymology: automobile impede centipede
Joggernaught
Created by: MrDave2176
Pronunciation: JAW-ger-nawt
Sentence: The joggernaught crossed the street heedless of the crossing signal and proceeded to cross the middle school field in defiance of the kickball game being played there.
Etymology: Jogger + [jugger]naught (an unstoppable object in motion)
Runagram
Created by: savta
Pronunciation: ruh - nuh - gram
Sentence: Pedestrians and drivers alike took evasive action as the runagram hurtled towards them.
Etymology: English run; Latin ag- field or open space; English ram (as in battering ram)
Fastzis
Created by: faithlessphil
Pronunciation: fast-zees
Sentence: The last thing Ellen saw before the accident was the quick blur of Nike swooshes as the Fastzis knocked her down.
Etymology: Fast + Nazis
Phalope
Created by: kundalinikat
Pronunciation: fay-lohp
Sentence: Fearlessly, the phalope thundered up the onramp and into traffic; the marathon would not end.
Etymology: Phalanx + lope = phalope.
Runvoy
Created by: shiftysquid
Pronunciation:
Sentence: I would have gotten here 15 minutes earlier, but a damn runvoy got in my way.
Etymology: runners + convoy
Comments:
FreeToys - 2007-08-31: 06:38:00
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