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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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Parkalysis
Created by: thefreewheeler
Pronunciation: park al is is
Sentence: Jen was parkalyzed from the head down but was able to get to the meeting just ten minutes late.
Etymology: park + paralysis.
Carouselect
Created by: Jabberwocky
Pronunciation: ker/us/seh/lekt
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:
Good one. Sounds like she needs a lapperscopy. - purpleartichokes, 2007-05-03: 07:22:00
ha ha or her very own retreadmill - Jabberwocky, 2007-05-03: 11:01:00
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Parculate
Created by: benjamin
Pronunciation: par-cue-late
Sentence: "Just pick a spot further out. I don't want to sit here and parculate all day."
Etymology: Park + Percolate
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)
Circlelate
Created by: lumina
Pronunciation: sir/cul/ate
Sentence: No matter how late she was running, Diane could never resist the urge to circlelate just one more time.
Etymology: Root word-circulate: move through a space, circuit or system, returning to the starting point. Circle: lap: movement once around a course. Late: belated: after the expected or usual time; delayed.
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)
Circumnearthegate
Created by: pinwheel
Pronunciation: sir/cum/near/the/gate
Sentence: Although Polly was tempted to park in the disabled spaces and put on a limp, her better nature forced her to circumnearthegate again in search of a more legitimate space.
Etymology: circumnavigate (to navigate in a circle) + near the gate (to save the shoe-wear)
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COMMENTS:
good in a roundabout way. - galwaywegian, 2007-05-03: 05:23:00
funny! - Jabberwocky, 2007-05-03: 11:03:00
Nicely done! - HubbMU, 2007-05-03: 12:39:00
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Circumparalyze
Created by: illaphilla
Pronunciation:
Sentence:
Etymology: circle + parallel/paralyze
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.
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.