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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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Nervyswerve
Created by: mplsbohemian
Pronunciation: NURV-ee-swurv
Sentence: Alex nervyswerved through rush-hour traffic to avoid being late to his girlfriend's house *again*.
Etymology: nervy + swerve
Suicideswiped
Created by: Kyoti
Pronunciation: Soo-uh-side-swypte
Sentence: Even though Rocky saw the car ahead turning left in the center lane, he mashed the gas and swung around and nearly got us suicideswiped in the process.
Etymology: Suicide + sideswiped
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COMMENTS:
love it! - Jabberwocky, 2007-07-17: 12:13:00
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Contrafict
Created by: Wiserhinoceros
Pronunciation: CON-tra-fict
Sentence: He regularly contraficted driving against the traffic as if in contradiction to the rules of the road.
Etymology: Contra (against). fict (unreal). A conflation of contradict, traffic and fiction..
Brainpounding
Created by: puttputt
Pronunciation: braen pownding
Sentence: I was so upset with this traffic it was so brainpounding.
Etymology: to show anger or diffuculty understanding something.
Carwinism
Created by: jesster
Pronunciation: Car - win -ism
Sentence: George is a terrible driver. The fact that he has survived to the age of 35 and has two kids is clearly a complete failure of the theory of carwinism.
Etymology: Car (you know, a car) + Darwinism (the process of natural selection, by which unfit individuals are eliminated from the gene pool)
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COMMENTS:
Maybe we should be teaching the theory of careationism after all... - jesster, 2007-07-17: 13:16:00
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Carfool
Created by: KristinA
Pronunciation: car-fool
Sentence: She opted to drive home from dinner because his carfooling makes her nauseous.
Etymology: carpool and fool
Motormortal
Created by: remistram
Pronunciation: mote-r-more-tal
Sentence: Ken motormortalled through the garage driving like a mad man in Barbie's massive party camper, squashing all of her plastic flowers along the way to GI Joe's tent in the woods.
Etymology: motor (drive) + mortal (deadly)
Yieldiotic
Created by: ziggy41
Pronunciation: Yeel-dee-aw-dik
Sentence: "I don't care how big that tank is! It have right-of-way!" exclaimed my yieldiotic cousin.
Etymology: Yield (give right-of-way to traffic) + idiotic (stupid)
Strdiver
Created by: missmurder
Pronunciation: sra-dive-err
Sentence: Dan got a ticket because he was a strdiver.
Etymology: stuipid+driver
Wreckspect
Created by: Osomatic
Pronunciation: Wreck + spect
Sentence: He'll wreckspect a two-ton semi trailer to stop on a dime if it means getting the right of way!
Etymology: Wreck + expect
Comments:
Osomatic - 2007-07-17: 00:40:00
Wreckspect
Osomatic - 2007-07-17: 00:44:00
Eeek! I wasn't paying attention and I put my word in the wrong place - could you delete it for me, oh Mightiest of Verbotomists?
Osomatic - 2007-07-17: 00:44:00
Er... and the comment asking you to delete it. And, heh, this one too. I think I'm caught up now.
rikboyee - 2007-07-17: 01:00:00
aaahh...a bit of boxlexia i see
Kyoti - 2007-07-17: 11:12:00
La pequeña caja divertida.
MisUndrstd - 2007-07-17: 12:32:00
Yeah what Kyoti said!
Girljenta2006 - 2007-07-22: 11:27:00
Hi