{"id":1044,"date":"2010-10-08T12:00:10","date_gmt":"2010-10-08T16:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/?p=1044"},"modified":"2010-10-08T12:00:10","modified_gmt":"2010-10-08T16:00:10","slug":"vroombox-i-think-im-hearing-the-first-sound-of-spring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/?p=1044","title":{"rendered":"Vroombox: I think I&#8217;m hearing the first sound of spring&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>DEFINITION:<\/strong> <em>v.<\/em> To drive around in your car with the widows down and stereo blaring. <em>n.<\/em> The sounds emanating from the suped-up vehicles driven by strutting human males as they participate their annual spring mating rituals.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/jimage400\/spring.gif\" alt=\"I think I'm hearing the first sound of spring...\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>VERBOTICISMS:<\/strong> <em>(Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Vroombox<\/strong>:  \/<em>vrooom boks<\/em>\/ he drove his vroombox down the street, wearing a 150 decibel shirt and a bulletproof grin <em>Etymology:<\/em>  boom box vroom <em>Created by:<\/em> galwaywegian.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Testostemonium<\/strong>:  \/<em>tes-toss-teh-moan-i-um<\/em>\/ Every spring young dudes are gripped by the pangs of testostemonium, exhibited by driving 50 mph in a school zone, blaring teenage angst music until their speakers blow up, and acting out &#8220;Rebel Without a Cause.&#8221;  They do this because testostemonium convinces them that this attention seeking behavior actually impresses potential mates.  In reality this behavior does nothing to increase their desirability to the opposite sex and actually has the counter effect of impressing other single males who want to sit in front of a television and drink beer. <em>Etymology:<\/em>  testosterone: male sex hormone responsible for male characteristics + pandemonium: very noisy place; a wild, chaotic, noisy uproar; the abode of demons <em>Created by:<\/em> mrskellyscl.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>Comments on Testostemonium:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/verbotomist.php?user=galwaywegian\">galwaywegian<\/a><\/strong>, <em>2010-10-06: 11:54:00<\/em> <br \/>nice<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Carcophony<\/strong>:  \/<em>k\u00c3\u00a4rk\u00c3\u00a4f\u00c9\u2122n\u00c4\u201c<\/em>\/ When the high school held a car show they were ready to see some extreme cars. What they weren\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t expecting was the accompanying carcophony. Much of the money raised at the event was used to replace the windows of the school cracked by the boosted sound systems.  <em>Etymology:<\/em>  car (a road vehicle, typically with four wheels, powered by an internal combustion engine and able to carry a small number of people) + cacophony (a harsh, discordant mixture of sounds) <em>Created by:<\/em> artr.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>Comments on Carcophony:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/verbotomist.php?user=galwaywegian\">galwaywegian<\/a><\/strong>, <em>2010-10-06: 11:55:00<\/em> <br \/>good one<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Phalloom<\/strong>:  \/<em>fal loom<\/em>\/ The annual spring mating ritual of the young male human starts as soon as the snow melts. Many a souped up vehicle, usually bright and shiny in colour with loads of added on parts and noises starts the migratory prowl.  Up and down beach fronts, main drags and in front of malls, fast food places and other areas where the female of the species may congregate.  The phalloom of this annual display of muscle can be heard each day and night for several weeks until school goes back in September. <em>Etymology:<\/em>  Phallic (relating to a phallus especially as an embodiment of generative power;the male organ of copulation) &amp; Voom (sound a car motor makes when revving up) <em>Created by:<\/em> Nosila.<\/p>\n<p>To see more verboticisms for this definition go to:<br \/> <br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/verboticisms.php?jid=spring\">https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/verboticisms.php?jid=spring<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Be Creative, <\/p>\n<p>James<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\">www.verbotomy.com<\/a><br \/>\nthe create-a-word game<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DEFINITION: v. To drive around in your car with the widows down and stereo blaring. n. The sounds emanating from the suped-up vehicles driven by strutting human males as they participate their annual spring mating rituals. VERBOTICISMS: (Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers) Vroombox: \/vrooom boks\/ he drove his vroombox down the street, wearing &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/?p=1044\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Vroombox: I think I&#8217;m hearing the first sound of spring&#8230;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[90,83,82,93,84,89,27],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1044"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1044\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}