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DEFINITION: To assert your right-of-way in traffic, even when it's stupidly dangerous to do so.
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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"
Carageous
Created by: fonka99
Pronunciation: car-a-geous
Sentence: Peregrine stamped his foot on the accelarator and carageously overtook the truck, despite the thick fog.
Etymology: From car and courageous
Accinine
Created by: ubgrud
Pronunciation: ax-see-nine
Sentence: He accinined across 4 lanes of traffic.
Etymology: accident + assinine
Florpedalate
Created by: shonco
Pronunciation: flor-ped-uhl-ate
Sentence: This jerk was going to cut me off, so I instinctively florpedalated, sending his sorry ass into a tailspin.
Etymology:
Traficide
Created by: likephilshead
Pronunciation: (Tra-fi-cide)
Sentence: Bob broke his leg and totaled his car in traficide.
Etymology: suicide(the driver), homicide(the passenger/s, and traffic.
Soccermomniac
Created by: dstorm78
Pronunciation: Socker-Mom-Nee-Ak
Sentence: The roads are no longer safe with all these soccermomniacs taking over with their huge SUVs and the total disregard for the other drivers on the road.
Etymology: A mix of soccer-moms (characterized by their big cars and disregard for anyone other than a member of their family) and a maniac, often related to the word soccer-mom, but more importantly related to one who is a driving maniac, road hog.
Carikazi
Created by: Ahoytheship
Pronunciation: car-i-ka-zee
Sentence: The man became a total carikazi after trying to deal with Thanksgiving traffic.
Etymology: car+kamikaze
Autowarrior
Created by: erasmus
Pronunciation: auto worrior
Sentence: damien was fast furious and an autoworrior. He was always first to overtake.
Etymology: from autocar etc and warrior, always ready to joust in battle
Autostupasia
Created by: Carole
Pronunciation: auto /stewp /azia
Sentence: It was madness to challenge the oncoming truck, but jake suffered from autostupasia, which rendered him totally unable to see the danger.
Etymology: auto/car, stup/stupid, asia/ from thanastos=death.