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DEFINITION: v. To instinctively slam your foot on "the brakes" even though you're just a passenger. Often occurs when the actual driver fails to brake appropriately. n. A sudden jerk of the leg.
Verboticisms
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Abdebreak
Created by: rfrey121
Pronunciation: ab-de-break
Sentence: As the car sped out of contol and the driver did not break, the passenger became an abdebreak out of all of her fear.
Etymology: ab-from, away de- off break- stop
Hyperchumping
Created by: ce0brb
Pronunciation: Hy-per-chump-ing
Sentence: Either drive yourself, or deal with being a passenger. Just stop hyperchumping.
Etymology: Hyperchondriac & pumping (at non existant brake pedal).
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COMMENTS:
This should perhaps be 'hypochumping', if you spell 'hypochondriac' correctly. - degsy99, 2007-01-04: 05:01:00
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Antedisasterinstinctiveswervation
Created by: SydneyNFox
Pronunciation: ANT-EH-DIZ-AH-STIR-IN-STINK-TIV-SWERV-A-SHUN
Sentence: I slapped my foot down hard antedisasterinstictivswervigly,knowing if John didn't stop soon we would die!
Etymology: Ante-(Latin- before) Disaster-(Italian: Disastro- ill starred event) Instinct-(Latin: Instinctus- impulse) Swerve-(Old English: Sweorfan- depart, leave, turn aside)
Bootflex
Created by: Drock
Pronunciation: BOOT-fleks
Sentence: As her friend skidded past the stop sign, she crammed her eyes closed and made a bootflex.
Etymology: Bootless - without result, futile. Reflex - an involuntary action.
Ghostbraking
Created by: GreatRandew
Pronunciation: Ghost-braking
Sentence: Instinctivly braking when such an action is felt as needed but when there is no brake pedal.
Etymology:
Dualcontrolism
Created by: Psychicsi
Pronunciation: du-al con-trol-ism
Sentence: Steve suffers dualcontrolism, but only when his wife is driving.
Etymology: from the dual conrol brakes found in many driving instructors cars
Proxypedal
Created by: chris
Pronunciation: prok-see-ped-ul
Sentence: Her inability to control her desire to proxypedal had resulted in the garage installing an extra steel plate on the passsenger side footwell
Etymology: proxy + (brake)pedal
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COMMENTS:
Nice word...Very funny. - johnnyrockett, 2006-12-27: 09:59:00
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Stopujerk
Created by: ubgrud
Pronunciation: STOP YOU JERK!
Sentence: "I hate driving with Jenny," he muttered, slamming the door behind him. "Stopujerk, stopujerk, stopujerk..." he mimicked.
Etymology: Muttering under the breath but loudly.
Brevator
Created by: gbegun
Pronunciation: BREV-aye-TOR
Sentence: Because of Suzi's brevator like personality, she believes everything should be stopped prematurely.
Etymology: Brev-Short Ator-person
Brasm
Created by: Mustang
Pronunciation: brahsm
Sentence: Lucy was always on edge when riding in the car with her husband, Lou, and as he was often quite inattentive she would have a brasm, stomping on an imaginary brake pedal when she thought he was too slow to do so himself.
Etymology: Blend of 'brake' (device for stopping vehicles) and 'spasm' ( A sudden burst of energy, activity, or emotion)
Adbrake
Created by: DrDurrer
Pronunciation: Ad-brake
Sentence: Thinking they were going to be in an accident, Maggie Ad-braked and slammed her foot to the floor, thinking she was in the driver's seat
Etymology: Ad-(latin) toward brake-to stop
Brakeomatic
Created by: bghicks
Pronunciation: break oh matic
Sentence: When his 16 year old failed to stop at the red light, his foot brakeomatically went into action.
Etymology: brake automatic
Contracardiactist
Created by: meganfis
Pronunciation: Contra-cardiac-tist
Sentence: The driving instructor was on the edge of her seat, and was being a contracardiactist.
Etymology: contra- against, cardiac-heart,
Fakebrake
Created by: hermionesnape
Pronunciation: fake-brake
Sentence: Jill is such a lousy driver that I fakebrake at every stop sign.
Etymology:
Passenjerk
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: pasinjərk
Sentence: Lucy is a terrible traveler. If she isn’t the driver she takes on the role of the passenjerk, twitching, sighing and stomping on the imaginary brakes every time there is some flex in the traffic flow. With her in the car it’s a good idea to leave a window down at least a crack so that her sucking air through clenched teeth doesn’t create a vacuum that cracks the windshield or cause the driver to pass out for lack of oxygen.
Etymology: passenger (a traveler on a public or private conveyance other than the driver, pilot, or crew) + jerk (a quick, sharp, sudden movement/a contemptibly obnoxious person)
Slownrider
Created by: Carla
Pronunciation: sloane-righ-duh
Sentence: Bernadette was the (self-appointed) car safety officer. Whenever the driver approached a 'hazard' (another car, for example), Bernadette would slam her foot onto the floor and beseech him to slow down.
Etymology: slow + 'lone rider'
Haltercate
Created by: Bulletchewer
Pronunciation: hol-ter-kate
Sentence: The driving instructor felt the need to haltercate to avoid a serious accident.
Etymology: From "halt" and "altercate" as such an action will inevitably lead to arguments.
Antecatastinct
Created by: briangianelos
Pronunciation: an-tE-ca-ta-stE-nkt
Sentence: Bill observed Jim's violent antecatastinct as he came to an abrupt stop at the busy intersection.
Etymology: Ante (before) cata (catastrophe) stinct (tendency)
Twocaptaincar
Created by: josje
Pronunciation: 2captaincar
Sentence: there is always trouble in a twocaptaincar !
Etymology: its from the sailingworld in witch there are no captains on a ship.
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COMMENTS:
Kick the out - josje, 2006-12-27: 05:30:00
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Trepedalate
Created by: maxxy
Pronunciation: treh-PEH-deh-layt
Sentence: Jim frantically trepedelated as his teenage son sped down the street.
Etymology: trepidation + pedal
Cairotaxiride
Created by: petaj
Pronunciation: Cairo-taxi-ride
Sentence: With heart pounding the passenger cairotaxirode in a reflex, futile attempt to prevent a collision with a camel in downtown Cairo.
Etymology: Cairo (personal experience of this definition occurred in this city) + taxi (drivers of which, have no fear in Cairo) + ride (being taken for one)
Brakearating.
Created by: stormee
Pronunciation: Break-a-rating
Sentence: The passanger automatically started brakearating when the driver did not slow down at the stop sign.
Etymology: To use imaginary brake pedal.
Brakeanoid
Created by: norsehorse
Pronunciation: Brake-a-noid
Sentence: You're a complete breakanoid.
Etymology: Paranoid and Brake
Ghostdriver
Created by: memexikon
Pronunciation: goost dry ver
Sentence: The ghostdriver was a better driver than the person in the driver's seat.
Etymology: ghost + driver
Antebackdriving
Created by: alyssawren
Pronunciation: an-tee-back-driving
Sentence: Lucy was antebackdriving because the driver wasn't breaking or driving very well. She was breaking before the driver was.
Etymology: ante: before back: back seat driving:driving better than the driver
Slasm
Created by: ErWenn
Pronunciation: /'sla-z&m/
Sentence: Every time Erik pulled into traffic, Jeff would slasm his foot down on the floor and scream "The brakes don't work on my side!"
Etymology: From slam + spasm
Abstastic
Created by: Littell16
Pronunciation: abs-tas-tic
Sentence: Allsion made abstatic actions when she lost multi-word pop to Lauren.
Etymology: abs-from,away,down;tastic-amazing
Pedapriorsist
Created by: erasmus
Pronunciation: ped a pri or sist
Sentence: angie was the worst pedapriorsist I knew. I never let her sit in the front of the car.
Etymology: from pedal pressing and being prior of an event, and wanting to assist with driving.
Illusionhalt
Created by: ahwinters
Pronunciation: ill-loo-shen-hawlt
Sentence: Mae bad drving made Sallie develop a crap in her right leg from all of her illusionhalt.
Etymology: illusion + halt
Brakeamiss
Created by: quippingqueen
Pronunciation: brak/a/mis
Sentence: Her breathtaking brakeamiss technique did nothing to prevent her day-dreaming driver from swerving into a pink elephant sitting quietly in the driveway munching on a bag of peanuts.
Etymology: brake + amiss
Abtrified
Created by: AllisonLittell
Pronunciation: Ab-trified
Sentence: Megan was abtrified when a horse ran in front of her car.
Etymology: Ab-from,away,down Trified-scared
Contraslam
Created by: ColeyPTrain
Pronunciation: Con-Tra-Sla-Am
Sentence: Out fear Lola contraslammed her foot against the front of the car as though she had a break in front of her
Etymology: Contra- Against Slam- Push hard
Whiteknuckling
Created by: Fenners
Pronunciation:
Sentence: Brake dammit! I'm whiteknuckling here!
Etymology:
Caroperate
Created by: mickey666
Pronunciation:
Sentence: As they approached the junction at full speed, Millie, in the passenger seat, instictively caroperated.
Etymology:
Programic
Created by: kanagramic
Pronunciation:
Sentence:
Etymology: programing + Graphic Design = programic
Impedalment
Created by: purpleartichokes
Pronunciation: im-ped-ul-ment
Sentence: Sue hated riding in stop-and-go traffic when Bob was driving, as her impedalment would leave her leg aching by the journey's end.
Etymology: impediment, pedal
Subrake
Created by: Partario
Pronunciation: Suh-Brake
Sentence: JESUS! we nerly hit him! i was using the subrake aswell!
Etymology: Su = Subconscience + Brake = To stop moving
Dootstop
Created by: PeteyPeteMcPetey
Pronunciation: Doot-Stop
Sentence: An old lady was about to cross the road, so I attempted a dootstop.
Etymology: Pitstop combined with what you might say if you were to verbalise the your feelings - "dooot! Stop!".
Passengeritis
Created by: fonka99
Pronunciation: Pass-en-ger-itis
Sentence: Being of a naturally nervous nature, Maureen suffered from extreme passengeritis whenever she wasn't behind the wheel.
Etymology: From passenger and the suffix "itis"
Stitchbraking
Created by: Manhattan
Pronunciation: Stitch-braek-ing
Sentence: He was clearly getting impatient and her stitchbreaking only sent him over the edge.
Etymology: From the word stitch and the work brake.
Phantasmabrakeage
Created by: adobrodt
Pronunciation: fan-TAS-ma-BRAKE-ij
Sentence: Bob suffered from an incurable phantasmabrakeage syndrome, causing most of his friends to insist on him driving everywhere.
Etymology: From phantasm (imaginary) and brakeage (the action of a brake)
Stompathy
Created by: cannibalgymnastics
Pronunciation: stom- path - ee
Sentence: She didn't see the cyclist in time, but I still slammed my foot down in stompathy
Etymology:
Drivinstructify
Created by: Javeson1
Pronunciation: Dryv-in-struck-tih-fy
Sentence: My mom always drivinstructifies when I drive; I guess I don't break fast enough for her.
Etymology: Driving instructors have that second break pedal on their side, and people who do this tend to think they have one too (when they don't) and it's a good thing they don't have one!
Selfpreserbreak
Created by: danboaz
Pronunciation: self-prez-er-brAk
Sentence: the driving instructor had an uncontrollable instinct for selfpreserbreaking, eventhough he realized he was impotent to stop any accident from happening.
Etymology: self + preservation + break
Brakesercise
Created by: egonschiela
Pronunciation: brake-ser-size
Sentence: Muriel's driving was so bad, Alice had devized a brakesercise routine to calm her nerves.
Etymology: brake (ex)ercise
Antespazerake
Created by: beverly
Pronunciation: anti spaz er rake
Sentence: She always antispazerakes when we get too close to another car.
Etymology: ante- before,prior to spazerake- a mix of the word spaz and brake
Genustretch
Created by: dimercurio
Pronunciation: jen-yoo-stretch
Sentence: Saw that genustretch there. Does my driving scare you that much?
Etymology: Genu (Latin for knee) + stretch, based off of "genuflect" (Latin "to bend the knee", a word used to describe kneeling in a church)
Reflexshun
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: re fleks shun
Sentence: Shirley felt an automatic reflexshun to slam on the brake when driving with her boyfriend Dan. He drove way too fast for her liking, so her leg reacted by trying to slam the non-existant brake on the passenger side. She should not have felt like being this defensive at all when riding with him, but seriously, even at the fast food drive through???
Etymology: Reflex (an automatic instinctive unlearned reaction to a stimulus) & Shun (avoid and stay away from deliberately; stay clear of)
Spazenger
Created by: thedugster
Pronunciation: Spaz - enger
Sentence: My passenger needs medication, they are such a spazenger!
Etymology: Passengers who demonstrate irrational responses to required driving maneuvers.
Misdrive
Created by: Flixst
Pronunciation: mɪs'draiv
Sentence: When I'm sleeping in a car, I'm alway misdriving.
Etymology: mis(wrongly) + drive
Pedalpushitis
Created by: widget
Pronunciation: Pedal-push-itus
Sentence: She had a severe case of pedalpushitis as the back of the juggernaut came in to view
Etymology:
Drivenger
Created by: camel
Pronunciation: Drive-en-ger
Sentence: Gas, break, dip - I can't help but drivenger whenever Tyrone takes me out to ghost ride the whip.
Etymology: Driver, passenger
Stopprehension
Created by: kryptik
Pronunciation: staw-pre-hen-shun
Sentence: Everyone Kate drives with suffers from acute stopprehension, which increases with every red light she misses.
Etymology: From the words 'stop' and 'apprehension'
Aprestop
Created by: Stump
Pronunciation:
Sentence: I aprestop the car a lot when I drive with my elderly mother.
Etymology: apre - from apprehensive Stop
Surrobrake
Created by: tangledupinblue
Pronunciation:
Sentence: My mother was babbling about my marital prospects and didn't see the red light, so I surrobraked and screamed "Stop!" but unfortunately she thought I was telling her to stop harassing me and we slammed into the car in front of us.
Etymology:
Benefictious
Created by: specks28
Pronunciation: Ben-eh-fick-tus
Sentence: Polly was benefictious when I drove her to the zoo. She thanked me over and over again.
Etymology: Bene-good Fictious- real
Brevitensing
Created by: DeanHildner
Pronunciation: Brev-eh-ten-sing
Sentence: Everytime Jamamoth is driving and comes close to crashing Wanda always finds herself brevitensing, wishing there was a break under her foot.
Etymology: Brev- short ehtensing- tensing
Autobrakitis
Created by: wiccanfey
Pronunciation: Auto-brake-i-tish (silent h)
Sentence: When my daughter was learning to drive, I couldn't help my autobrakitis and trying to grab the steering wheel to turn!
Etymology: Automatic, brake
Haltpulse
Created by: awesomo
Pronunciation: halt-pulse
Sentence: Rudy almost ran-over a racoon, so I had the haltpule to stop him.
Etymology: halt-impulse
Brakescious
Created by: hairydoginparis
Pronunciation: brayk-shus
Sentence: My mother is a bad driver and I am often brakescious in the car with her.
Etymology: brake-to stop unconscious-to be unaware
Contrafibble
Created by: RachelRocks
Pronunciation: Con-tra-fibble
Sentence: Jeez mom, stop contrafibbling the floor of my truck when I'm driving.
Etymology: contra - against fibble - stomp
Brakawish
Created by: celeron450
Pronunciation: brake-uh-wish
Sentence: As they approached the traffic jam far too rapidly, Brian's father could only brakawish.
Etymology: brake, make a wish
Autonecrophobia
Created by: omista
Pronunciation: aw-to-nec-RO-FO-BE-uh
Sentence: Jims autonecrophobia was so overwhelming that he found it hard to let anyone else drive.
Etymology: auto- self/car; necro- death; phobia- fear of
Brakear
Created by: xshadowswimmer08x
Pronunciation: break-ear
Sentence: i saw her brakearing while i was driving.
Etymology: break/fear
Brakedancing
Created by: johnnyrockett
Pronunciation: Br-a-ke-dans-ing
Sentence: As we slid through the stop sign, I instinctively breakdanced on the passenger side floor.
Etymology: Oh come on...breakdancing?
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COMMENTS:
how does this have 62 points? where did they all come from? - Javeson1, 2006-12-29: 00:44:00
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Psuedabraker
Created by: llimllib
Pronunciation: `Sood-a-break-er
Sentence: Steven laughed when Janine, the ex-driving instructor, bought her antique car. "Now you're a pseudabraker in a Studabaker!"
Etymology: Psuedo + braker = psuedabraker
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COMMENTS:
I like the Studabaker reference. I got it without looking at the sentance. - johnnyrockett, 2006-12-27: 10:48:00
Thanks Johnny. - llimllib, 2006-12-28: 08:15:00
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Abscared
Created by: meganhardy
Pronunciation: ab-scared
Sentence: My foot abscared when Allison almost hit a tree while she was driving me to school this morning.
Etymology: ab- from scared- beleiving that your life is in great danger.
Collaborbrake
Created by: vicminer
Pronunciation: collab-or-brake
Sentence: As the student driver stopped abruptly, the passenger in the car collabrobraked, even though he was in the passenger seat.
Etymology: col-with
Brakejunkie
Created by: jedijawa
Pronunciation: brake-junk-ee
Sentence: Chris was such a brakejunkie that he couldn't sit still while riding with anybody unless he was the driver.
Etymology: brake + junkie
Skardtudeath
Created by: Chistinalove
Pronunciation: scared to death
Sentence: I was so skardtudeath when he almost slammed into the mercedes in front of us.
Etymology: scared to death
Drivinginstructorism
Created by: ichiromania
Pronunciation: driving instructor ism
Sentence: from the way her foot is moving, that is a clear display of drivinginstructorism
Etymology: driving instructors
Spiritbraking
Created by: Flamechick911
Pronunciation: [Spear-it bray-king]
Sentence: Jane got mad at me the other day because I can't seem to stop Spiritbraking but it's not my fault if she's a speed demon and almost gets into an accident everytime she drives.
Etymology: from spirit reading and ghost writing
Britbrake
Created by: Adamson
Pronunciation: brit-brake
Sentence: I just can't get use to be sitting on this side and not driving, sorry if I britbrake and britclutch all the time.
Etymology: brit (brittain)+braking
Adbrakewafy
Created by: FeelTheMcGrath
Pronunciation: Ad-brayck-wah-fi
Sentence: As Jebediah and Miley stepped into the car, Miley felt uneasy. She had heard previously from her neighbors that Jebediah was a reckless driver, even when he wasn't on his yeast infection medication. As he put his foot on the gas and started to drive, Miley immediately adbrakewafied.
Etymology: Ad- To brake- break suddenly wafy- while saying, "Wa!"
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COMMENTS:
Vote - ColeyPTrain, 2013-09-12: 14:45:00
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Brakesist
Created by: FionaMin
Pronunciation: BRAYK-sist
Sentence: When the she saw the fast-approaching red light, Tammy felt the need to brakesist.
Etymology: brake + assist
Empathengerfeet
Created by: rikboyee
Pronunciation: em-paath-en-jer-feet
Sentence: Realising that Gary had not noticed the red light, Jacob tried to empathengerfeet them to a safe stop.... there were no survivors
Etymology: empathy, passenger seat, feet
Shotgunxiety
Created by: Stevenson0
Pronunciation: shot/guhn/zahy/i/tee
Sentence: She could only be in the front seat when she was driving, or shotgunxiety caused her to constantly stomp her brake foot.
Etymology: shotgun + anxiety
Phantomfooting
Created by: walkingdistraction
Pronunciation: fan-tom-foot-ing
Sentence: The drivers ed instructor was getting muscle cramps due to his constant phantomfooting.
Etymology: phantom+footing
Brakeostress
Created by: seifip
Pronunciation: brake o stress
Sentence: I'm brakeostressed. Please, dont ride so fast!
Etymology: brake + stress
Passbrake
Created by: ScyldScefing
Pronunciation: /pAEzbrEIk/, where AE stands for "a" as in "cat" and "EI" is pronounced as dypthong, not separate sounds.
Sentence: "And there it was, this truck, and John seemed to be so slow, I passbraked so hard you could actually hear the "thud"
Etymology: From "pass", short for "passenger", and the verb "to brake".
Autopedite
Created by: Hjason
Pronunciation: Auto-ped-ite
Sentence: It is so annoying when I am driving my friend around and they sit there autopediting as if I was not a capable driver.
Etymology: Automatic(as in instinctual)+pedal+expidite

Comments:
chris - 2006-12-27: 05:07:00
..hard to beat 'brakedancing'....
wordmeister - 2006-12-27: 10:37:00
Hey Chris, Yes I spotted brakedancing too! I was going to suggest that you consider "proxypedal" but that's your word... What about "Impedalment"? It's good too...
Wriiight - 2006-12-27: 12:56:00
While driving, I often notice my passengers suffer from a loss of controls.
wordmeister - 2006-12-27: 13:05:00
Good one Wriight!
nibololihiaa - 2018-12-27: 04:24:00
Промывки форсунок... Очистка инжектора....
Dulliesjag - 2018-12-27: 04:42:00
Sorry in place of
lolakusovska - 2018-12-27: 16:26:00
Хочу породистого щенка немецкой овчарки... Купить щенка немецкой овчарки..
gorapukinovs - 2018-12-27: 17:50:00
Массаж и техника массжа... Скидки на новогоднии праздники. Приглашаем
Dulliesjag - 2018-12-27: 19:45:00
What organize the