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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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Curbvana

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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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cute - Nosila, 2009-11-20: 01:15:00

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Circumlaze

Created by: Brooklie

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Parkonaut

Created by: Osomatic

Pronunciation: park + ah + naught

Sentence: He's such a parkanaut - he'll orbit the parking lot 42 times if he has to, just to save himself 30 feet of walking.

Etymology: park + astronaut

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Spotclocking

Created by: Coltsfan87x17

Pronunciation:

Sentence: The woman was spotclocking when she went grocery shopping so she woudnt miss her hair apointment.

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Spacify

Created by: Stevenson0

Pronunciation: spac/i/fy

Sentence: Jenny's ability to spacify in large urban parking lots is a must to save time and energy. She meanders the aisles closest to the entrances spacifying all possibilities. She is an expert spacifyer.

Etymology: SPACIFY - verb - from SPACE (a place available for a particular purpose) + IDENTIFY (to recognize, or establish as being a particular thing)

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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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Storbit

Created by: Nosila

Pronunciation: stor bit

Sentence: When Venus Houston went to the mall, she would drive around for hours to get the closest spot to her final destination. In other words, she would storbit around rows of vehicles before she came in for a landing in a spot that was not for the disabled/seniors/taxis/young parents. She figured that these storbits were her mission and why they called a free spot a parking "space". Houston, we have a problem...

Etymology: Store (a mercantile establishment for the retail sale of goods or services) & Orbit ( the (usually elliptical) path described by one celestial body in its revolution about another)

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Eternacruise

metrohumanx

Created by: metrohumanx

Pronunciation: EE-TERN-UH-CROOZE

Sentence: Although Loretta was passionate about going to the gym every day, a strange inner compulsion would not let her park in the first available space...instead, she chose to ETERNACRUISE around the mall, constantly seeking that perfect yet unattainable parking spot- despite the derisive protests of her imprisoned passengers.

Etymology: ETERNAL+CRUISE... ETERNAL:in perpetuity...CRUISE:a long,seemingly endless journey

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metrohumanx Please ! I have to use the restrooms! - metrohumanx, 2008-07-15: 19:46:00

didn't see this yesterday - like it and you could add turn to your etymology - Jabberwocky, 2008-07-16: 11:58:00

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Spoptimize

Created by: autophile

Pronunciation: sPOP-ti-mize

Sentence: Dude, I'm hungry, stop it with the spoptimization already!

Etymology: From spot (parking spot) + optimize

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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

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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.