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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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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.
Encompark
Created by: ziggy41
Pronunciation: En-cahm-park
Sentence: She encomparked the parking lot as many times as it would have took to walk from one end of the lot, to the store and then back again.
Etymology: Encompass (to circle) + park (bring vehicle to halt to stop temporarily)
Storbit
Created by: paperhoard
Pronunciation: store-bit
Sentence: I would have been to the mall 4 hours ago, but Mom was stuck in storbit waiting for the perfect spot.
Etymology: Store + Orbit
Recarnnoiter
Created by: karenanne
Pronunciation: REH car NOY ter
Sentence: Stacy carefully recarnnoitered the terrain, searching for the one perfect spot that would land her closest to the mall entrance. It didn't do her any good in the end, though, because when she left, after closing, she went out the wrong side of the mall and the door locked behind her. She had to walk halfway around the mall in the dark, through ice and snow, with her big packages, to find her car. "Next time," she thought to herself, "I'm going to do more careful recarnnaissance before I park."
Etymology: car + reconnoiter
Spacify
Created by: Stevenson0
Pronunciation: spac/i/fy
Sentence: Martha's ability to spacify in large urbane parking lots is a must to save time and energy. She meanders the isles closest to the entrances spacifying all possibilities. She is an expert spacifyer.
Etymology: space + identify
Curbvana
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: kərbvänə
Sentence: Ralph is always looking for the perfect parking spot. He is constantly seeking curbvana. Like a vulture circling some roadside carrion he will stalk shoppers as they returned to the parking lot. Some shoppers are so un-nerved by him creeping along behind them that they will forget where they parked or will return to the Mall to have a security guard escort them to their cars.
Etymology: curb (a stone or concrete edging to a street or path) + nirvana (a state of perfect happiness; an ideal or idyllic place)
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COMMENTS:
cute - Nosila, 2009-11-20: 01:15:00
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Carouselect
Created by: Jabberwocky
Pronunciation: care/us/sell/ect
Sentence: To carouselect can prove to be very dangerous if you suffer from vertigo. Sue often spun in circles around her car after she'd found the perfect spot.
Etymology: carousel (merry go round) + select
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COMMENTS:
Smooooth! - metrohumanx, 2008-07-15: 19:49:00
The experience doesn't seem so merry. Good word. - OZZIEBOB, 2008-07-16: 07:04:00
The experience doesn't seem so merry. Good word. - OZZIEBOB, 2008-07-16: 07:04:00
The experience doesn't seem so merry. Good word. - OZZIEBOB, 2008-07-16: 07:04:00
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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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Sharppark
Created by: grahaff
Pronunciation: sharp park
Sentence: The IKEA parking lot was huge. We then saw the perfect sharppark and settled in.
Etymology: sharp (smart) park (park)
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.
Comments:
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.
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.