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'Oh! There's a spot!'

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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Parkadise

Created by: galwaywegian

Pronunciation: park ah diess

Sentence: the pilgrim must go aroung the perimiter thrice brfore entering the inner sanctum, chanting the mantra seven times while looking in the rearview mirror, whereupon the pure hearted will find parkadise

Etymology: paradise park

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Spiralyzing

Created by: jonobo

Pronunciation: spiral-i-sing

Sentence: She was spiralyzing in the parking lot, a lot. A lot of spiralyzing was going on today in the parking lot. In the end she was totally spiralyzed.

Etymology: paralyzed + spiral = spiralyzing. why ? because in the end you are paralyzed while moving round in circles. maybe you would have been faster by taking the next best parking-place and walk the rest ? no spiralyzing, no fun.

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Parkinlots

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Created by: ohwtepph

Pronunciation: par - kin - lots

Sentence: These boots are made for walking, that's what they should do. Or if you think otherwise, you suffer from Parkinlot's.

Etymology: park + lot + Parkinson's disease (degenerative disorder impairing the victim's motor skills)

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Parkaide

Created by: Nosila

Pronunciation: park ayd

Sentence: When Melba drove to the mall, she always took her husband Melvin to act as her parkaide. He could find the closest spot to the entrance in a wink and if worse came to worse, he could whip out the old disabled parking sticker or pretend he was pregnant.

Etymology: Park (to maneuver a vehicle into a parking space) & Aide (someone/thing who acts as assistant) & Wordplay on Parkade (a multi-levelcar park)

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Carcumnavigate

Created by: verysimplegame

Pronunciation: car-cum-nah-vi-gate

Sentence: Having lost the THIRD space to a freakin' vulture, Dawn decided to carcumnavigate on the Macy's side of the mall.

Etymology: car + circumnavigate

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Parksnickety

Created by: Tigger

Pronunciation: /pahrk-SNIK-i-tee/

Sentence: On their sixth lap around the parking lot, Lois decided that Mike was just too parksnickety. They'd been driving in circles for almost ten minutes now, but it would have taken little more than a minute to walk across the entire parking lot. Mike had passed up every empty spot further than ten spaces away from the front door of the department store, and cursed every time someone else pulled in before he could get there. She just sighed and rubbed her temples again — Mike never won at Parking Lot Bingo, and she knew that asking him to park further out would only start an argument.

Etymology: Park - to place or leave a vehicle in a certain location (from Old English, pearruc "paddock") + Persnickety - requiring painstaking care; overparticular; fussy (extended form of Scottish, pernicky; of uncertain origin, possibly from 'particular')

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COMMENTS:

like it - Jabberwocky, 2008-07-15: 16:19:00

A word I can use in the future!! - Mustang, 2008-07-15: 19:45:00

Lovely. - OZZIEBOB, 2008-07-16: 06:56:00

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Lotvulture

Created by: jedijawa

Pronunciation: lot-vul-ture

Sentence: Jill had become a lotvulture as she would spend as much time looking for a close parking spot as it would take her to walk the parking lot twice.

Etymology: lot + vulture

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COMMENTS:

I know a couple of people that fit your definition! - HubbMU, 2007-05-03: 13:46:00

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Carbit

Created by: rikboyee

Pronunciation: car-bit

Sentence: she wanted to go shopping but she was stuck in carbit

Etymology: car, orbit

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Handilapped

Created by: MemyselfnI

Pronunciation: han-dee-lapped

Sentence: Larry had the nearly completed listening to the entire Beatles White album waiting for that perfect spot, at the same time being handilapped by hundreds of shoppers.

Etymology: Handicapped - lapped These folks who require handicap like parking, ultimately get lapped by all other reasonable parkers.

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Circumparkulate

Created by: overgroove

Pronunciation: Sir-cum-park-you-late.

Sentence: Eyes puckered and her hands white on the steering wheel, Linda McPale, circumparkulated outside the local Walmart.

Etymology: Derived from the latin circum meaning to inscribe or define a circle and the English park, meaning to set ones car in a stationary state.

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Comments:

Verbotomy Verbotomy - 2007-05-03: 02:10:00
Today's definition was suggested by jedijawa.
Thank you jedijawa! ~ James

jedijawa - 2007-05-03: 13:31:00
This one was inspired by my dad who did this all the time when I was growing up. My word for it is lotvulture.

Verbotomy Verbotomy - 2007-05-03: 14:00:00
The scarey part is when lotvultures dive in for the kill. Especially when two of them are going for the same spot. ~ James

Mustang - 2008-07-15: 19:45:00
Good one.