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DEFINITION: To assert your right-of-way in traffic, even when it's stupidly dangerous to do so.
Verboticisms
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Roadhogish
Created by: GreatRandew
Pronunciation: road-hog-ish
Sentence: he was so roadhogish that he could not keep on his side of the road.
Etymology: road-hog-ish
Stupidicide
Created by: Chunk01
Pronunciation: stew-PID-ee-side
Sentence: Despite all logic to the contrary she continued across the juntion to commit an act of righteously indignant stupidicide
Etymology: Stupid-Suicide=stupidicide
Assgressive
Created by: jedijawa
Pronunciation: ass-gres-sive
Sentence: Bill was an assgressive driver and was quite reckless in taking the right of way.
Etymology: ass + aggressive
Wrongofway
Created by: bondfool
Pronunciation: rong-ov-way
Sentence: too many people these days think they can just take the wrong-of-way whenever they feel like it.
Etymology: a play on the words right of way
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COMMENTS:
Just so we're clear, I created wrongofway before bondfool. Not that it's terribly difficult to conceive, but just so we're clear... - Javeson1, 2007-01-08: 13:48:00
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Rightrage
Created by: mdschermer
Pronunciation: RīT-rāj
Sentence: By some severe rightraging, he managed to make his Beetle grow the size of a roadtrain - in his head.
Etymology: "Right-of-way" + "roadrage"
Egomotor
Created by: Apone
Pronunciation: E-go-mo-tor
Sentence: "Why do you always egomotor like that? You'll get us killed!"
Etymology: prefix "ego" (e.g. of egomania) with "motor" meaning to drive
Autoannihilation
Created by: petaj
Pronunciation: OR-toe-a-NY-hill-ay-shun
Sentence: His self destructive behaviour behind the wheel is a perfect example of autoannihilation.
Etymology: auto (self and automobile) + annihilation (destruction)
Autoretardation
Created by: chofu67
Pronunciation:
Sentence: Out of the office and behind the wheel, Dave's autoretardation manifested itself in a string of frightening driving manuevers.
Etymology:
Freewaving
Created by: purpleartichokes
Pronunciation: free/way/ving
Sentence: Sue was taken aback when instead of moving over to let the speeding car merge onto the highway, Bob started freewaving the driver in the car and continued driving in "his" lane.
Etymology: freeway, waving (the middle finger)
Idiosteer
Created by: Osomatic
Pronunciation: ID-ee-o-steer
Sentence: I couldn't believe it, he idiosteered right into oncoming traffic!
Etymology: Idiot + steer
