Verboticism: Parkohspot
DEFINITION: v. To drive around in circles in a parking lot, so that you can save time by finding the closest possible space to your final destination. n. A perfect parking spot.
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Spotwagging
Created by: foxwerx
Pronunciation: spot + wag + ing
Sentence: Your foolhardy spotwagging is going to make us late for the movie.
Etymology: parking spot + tail wagging
Spacechaser
Created by: allawson
Pronunciation:
Sentence: Joanna, the spacechaser, drove rapidly around the parking lot trying to find the closest parking spot.
Etymology: Derived from Wal-Mart parking lot, first space.
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COMMENTS:
That's pretty good! - HubbMU, 2007-05-03: 13:18:00
Hey, I like the sound of that! - jedijawa, 2007-05-03: 13:34:00
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Vehiciouscircle
Created by: petaj
Pronunciation: vee-HISH-us-circle
Sentence: Gloria's vehiciouscircling enraged everyone else in the car. Her passengers could not convince her that she was just trading off shoe leather for gas. But she was determined to outmanoeuvre the other vehiciouscirclers for the best spot, even if it led to a fender bender.
Etymology: vicious circle + vehicle
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COMMENTS:
ridehiculous - galwaywegian, 2007-05-03: 05:21:00
another inspired word - Jabberwocky, 2007-05-03: 11:06:00
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Hatchbacktrack
Created by: CharlieB
Pronunciation: hatch-bak-trak
Sentence: Emily drove at speed to her destination, noting all potential spots (bonus if she could park face out), before violently cranking the gear into reverse to hatchbacktrack to the closest space.
Etymology: hatchback (a type of vehicle) + backtrack (to go back over the same route)
Circulotting
Created by: samandrach
Pronunciation: serk'you'lot'ing
Sentence: There were so many cars in the lot, we were circulotting for hours.
Etymology:
Geespot
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: jeee spot
Sentence: She wasn't given to strong language but she screamed in delight when she found the gee spot
Etymology: gee as in "oh gee" g-spot as in erm...
Spoptimize
Created by: autophile
Pronunciation: sPOP-ti-mize
Sentence: Dude, I'm hungry, stop it with the spoptimization already!
Etymology: From spot (parking spot) + optimize
