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DEFINITION: v., To slowly inch your vehicle forward at a red traffic light hoping that you can make it change faster. n., A driver who allows their vehicle to creep into the middle of an intersection while waiting for a red light.
Verboticisms
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Locomotorist
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: lo ko mo to rist
Sentence: Coco was a locomotorist. She would creep her car along at red lights, without concern for those heading her way from either side. She's been lucky so far, but her luck is running out. Is this Suicide by Suzuki? Harakiri by Hyundai? Death by Dodge? Kamikaze by Kia? Murder by Mazda? Coco is also Loco.
Etymology: Locomotion (self-propelled movement) & Motorist (driver) and Loco (Spanish for crazy)
Greengrowcer
Created by: bookowl
Pronunciation: green/gro/sur
Sentence: A typical greengrowcer is under the impression that green lights will appear faster with a little pressure.
Etymology: green + grow + greengrocer
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COMMENTS:
Pretty good, Bookie! - metrohumanx, 2008-10-30: 13:56:00
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Greengo
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: gree ng go
Sentence: The greengo he try the dodge city shuffle one time too many. He meet a beer lorry on a mission at a major intersection, asquashed him like a tortilla!
Etymology: gringo, green go.
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COMMENTS:
veree funnee - Jabberwocky, 2007-12-06: 12:44:00
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Jeepercreeper
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: jēpərkrēpər
Sentence: Willy doesn't trust traffic lights. He is a jeepercreeper. Whenever he comes to a red light he will inch forward to get the sensor to trigger a green light. His friend G.P. once told him that many of the sensors in the road are designed for larger cars so he wants to allow a second car to get into the sensor zone to make sure that he doesn't have to sit at the light forever.
Etymology: Jeep (a small, sturdy motor vehicle with four-wheel drive, esp. one used by the military) Jeepers (exclamation used to express surprise or alarm) + creeper (one who moves slowly and carefully, esp. in order to avoid being heard or noticed)
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COMMENTS:
Good one!! Maybe Willy should move up to a Heavy Chevy? - Mustang, 2008-10-30: 06:40:00
great word - Jabberwocky, 2008-10-30: 11:08:00
Good word, Centurion.
Those sensors gang aft agley. - metrohumanx, 2008-10-30: 13:46:00
nicely done....like this one! - mweinmann, 2008-10-30: 13:59:00
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Inchtersectionist
Created by: libertybelle
Pronunciation: inch-ter-sek-shun-ist
Sentence: Molly, being the inchtersectionist that she is, would invaribly creep up at every stop light until she was in the center of the interesection, jamming traffic in all directions.
Etymology: inch + intersection... (thus ends my 3 day -osis streak...)
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COMMENTS:
missed this yesterday - very good - Jabberwocky, 2007-12-07: 14:03:00
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Litehog
Created by: looseball
Pronunciation: lite+hog
Sentence: Mortisha is a litehog.She creaps up in traffic to get in on the lite change.
Etymology:
Justiflauntecoast
Created by: metrohumanx
Pronunciation: justih-FLONT-ih-coe-st (justiflauntecoaster,justiflauntecoasted)
Sentence: Heidi just KNEW she shouldn't have come this way. The meat in her fridge was turning green faster than this traffic signal. There were no other cars on the road at this time of night. Perhaps the red light was broken, and would NEVER turn green before someone pulled up behind her and started blowing their horn. There must be some kind of buried cable that senses how many motorists are here. Heidi decided to JUSTIFLAUNTECOAST slowly into the intersection...just a little further...now she was directly beneath the light and couldn't even see it...It COULD be green now...Well, Heidi was halfway through the light anyway, so she might as well FLOOR it. A mile down the road, Heidi uttered a twisted laugh at her own timidity. She had JUSTIFLAUNTECOASTED several minutes off her trip home. HA HA HA! She accelerated into the inky night, her smug satisfaction interrupted only by the flashing red lights in the rearview mirror....THINK FAST! Hang up the cell phone!
Etymology: JUSTIFy+fLAUNT+COAST=JUSTIFLAUNTECOAST.....JUSTIFY:to show a sufficient lawful reason for an act done, to prove or show to be just, right, or reasonable;Middle English justifien, from Anglo-French or Late Latin; Anglo-French justifier, from Late Latin justificare, from Latin Justus.....FLAUNT:to treat traffic laws contemptuously;perhaps of Scandinavian origin; akin to Old Norse flana to rush around.....COAST:roll down a slope,proceed in neutral gear;Middle English cost, from Anglo-French coste, from Latin costa rib, side; akin to Old Church Slavic kostĭ bone.
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COMMENTS:
http://www.trafficsignalmuseum.com/ - metrohumanx, 2008-10-30: 03:29:00
The meat in her fridge was turning green faster than this traffic signal. HAHA! - zxvasdf, 2008-10-30: 12:22:00
100 best robots:
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/14.01/robots.html - metrohumanx, 2008-10-30: 13:36:00
Gort barata nickto. - metrohumanx, 2008-10-30: 13:41:00
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Lightfrogging
Created by: CEE1ESS
Pronunciation: Lite-frog-ing
Sentence: She was always lightfrogging the red signal, trying to gain some time in the morning.
Etymology: from light and leapfrog
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COMMENTS:
Very descriptive, and creative! Nice one. - Tigger, 2007-12-06: 11:48:00
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Redleadfoot
Created by: remistram
Pronunciation: red-led-foot
Sentence: Redleadfooting is one of the main causes of road rage stabbings & deaths.
Etymology: red (as in red traffic light)+ lead (as in metal or heavy) + foot
Greenfluence
Created by: milorush
Pronunciation: green - flu - ence
Sentence: Sometimes ya just gotta greenfluence the light a little to get the thing to change.
Etymology: green (as in light) + [in]fluence
Comments:
Today's definition was suggested by Tigger and libertybelle. Thank you Tigger and libertybelle. ~ James
Tigger - 2007-12-06: 00:32:00
Actually, libertybelle should get sole credit. I should've read through the recent definitions before submitting mine.
i still say great minds think alike... though some say filthy minds think alike, as well... hmmm...
silveryaspen - 2007-12-06: 19:11:00
flows smoothly ... readily understood ... nice interplay of words.
silveryaspen - 2007-12-06: 19:14:00
like the first 2 syllable rhyme ... the word rolls off the tongue. The meaning is straightforward and implicit.
Today's definition was suggested by libertybelle. Thank you libertybelle. ~ James