{"id":1609,"date":"2012-12-28T12:02:17","date_gmt":"2012-12-28T17:02:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/?p=1609"},"modified":"2012-12-28T12:02:17","modified_gmt":"2012-12-28T17:02:17","slug":"crosstownboogie-man-that-chick-can-ride","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/?p=1609","title":{"rendered":"Crosstownboogie: Man! That chick can ride."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>DEFINITION:<\/strong> <em>v.<\/em>, To &#8220;surf&#8221;, or ride in a freestanding position on a bus, train or subway. <em>n.<\/em>, A sport popular among transit riders who attempt to complete the entire commute in a freestanding position without using the handrails.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/jimage400\/surf.gif\" alt=\"Man! That chick can ride.\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>VERBOTICISMS:<\/strong> <em>(Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Crosstownboogie<\/strong>:  \/<em>kraws-toun-boog-ee<\/em>\/ While some people are content to sit idly on the bus, Sally prefers to crank up her iPod and get her day started with a little crosstownboogie. <em>Etymology:<\/em>  crosstown (a bus running primarily in a crosstown direction) + boogie (to dance energetically, especially to rock music) <em>Created by:<\/em> artr.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Shuttleshuffle<\/strong>:  \/<em>SHUT-ehl-shuf-ehl<\/em>\/ Lucille has always enjoyed the rocking and jolting of the subway as she rides to and from her work and other outings and has perfected a shuttleshuffle for her own entertainment as well as providing smiles for her fellow passengers. <em>Etymology:<\/em>  Blend of &#8216;shuttle'(a bus, train, or airplane that makes frequent short trips between two places) and &#8216;shuffle&#8217; (to scrape the feet over the floor in dancing) <em>Created by:<\/em> Mustang.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Subwave<\/strong>:  \/<em>sub wayv<\/em>\/ When Maria rides the subway on her daily commute, she performs the subwave. She balances herself against the motion without holding on to a rail. It keeps her in practice for her vacations in Big Sur. <em>Etymology:<\/em>  Subway (electric underground railway, public transport)&amp; Wave (to emulate the motion of the ocean waves, as what surfers do) <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=surf\">https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/verboticisms.php?jid=surf<\/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 &#8220;surf&#8221;, or ride in a freestanding position on a bus, train or subway. n., A sport popular among transit riders who attempt to complete the entire commute in a freestanding position without using the handrails. VERBOTICISMS: (Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers) Crosstownboogie: \/kraws-toun-boog-ee\/ While some people are content to sit &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/?p=1609\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Crosstownboogie: Man! That chick can ride.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","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\/1609"}],"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=1609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1609\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}