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'Those idiots! I have the right of way!'

DEFINITION: To assert your right-of-way in traffic, even when it's stupidly dangerous to do so.

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Vehism

Created by: yamishinyi

Pronunciation: vee-his-em

Sentence: His vehism helped aid in the accident.

Etymology: vehi- vehicle ism- noun

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Motormortal

Created by: remistram

Pronunciation: mote-r-more-tal

Sentence: Ken motormortalled through the garage driving like a mad man in Barbie's massive party camper, squashing all of her plastic flowers along the way to GI Joe's tent in the woods.

Etymology: motor (drive) + mortal (deadly)

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Wheelstup

Created by: OZZIEBOB

Pronunciation: Wheel + stup or stoop(depending on the variety of English you speak)

Sentence: If you're a passenger in a car driven by a wheelstup-insist on your rites!

Etymology: Wheel+ stup:a backformation of stupidity

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Yieldiotic

Created by: ziggy41

Pronunciation: Yeel-dee-aw-dik

Sentence: "I don't care how big that tank is! It have right-of-way!" exclaimed my yieldiotic cousin.

Etymology: Yield (give right-of-way to traffic) + idiotic (stupid)

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Driveritis

Created by: r0b0tj0n3z

Pronunciation: dry-ver-ight-iss

Sentence: Steve has driveritis tendencies

Etymology: driver, tendonitis?

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Carazy

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Created by: petaj

Pronunciation: ca-ray-zee

Sentence: Carazy Carl careered along the Champs Elysee in his Corolla calling out to Camira drivers to get out of his way.

Etymology: car + crazy

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COMMENTS:

carazy for trying, carazy for crying and carazy for loving you... - galwaywegian, 2007-07-17: 07:20:00

I want to give bonus points for alliterative license, but the DPS failed me on that portion of the exam. - Kyoti, 2007-07-17: 11:07:00

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Contrafict

Created by: Wiserhinoceros

Pronunciation: CON-tra-fict

Sentence: He regularly contraficted driving against the traffic as if in contradiction to the rules of the road.

Etymology: Contra (against). fict (unreal). A conflation of contradict, traffic and fiction..

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Roadhogit

Created by: irminem

Pronunciation: road-hog-it

Sentence: There are inconsiderate drivers who roadhogit on the highways to the detriment of other roadusers.

Etymology: From "roadhog" a driver who behaves like a complete hog on the road.

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Carwinism

Created by: jesster

Pronunciation: Car - win -ism

Sentence: George is a terrible driver. The fact that he has survived to the age of 35 and has two kids is clearly a complete failure of the theory of carwinism.

Etymology: Car (you know, a car) + Darwinism (the process of natural selection, by which unfit individuals are eliminated from the gene pool)

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COMMENTS:

Maybe we should be teaching the theory of careationism after all... - jesster, 2007-07-17: 13:16:00

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Roadstupidity

Created by: leaffan001

Pronunciation: ro-od-stu-pid-i-te

Sentence: driving stupidly even though you think it is right

Etymology: comes from the word roadrage

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Comments:

Osomatic - 2007-07-17: 00:40:00
Wreckspect

Osomatic - 2007-07-17: 00:44:00
Eeek! I wasn't paying attention and I put my word in the wrong place - could you delete it for me, oh Mightiest of Verbotomists?

Osomatic - 2007-07-17: 00:44:00
Er... and the comment asking you to delete it. And, heh, this one too. I think I'm caught up now.

rikboyee - 2007-07-17: 01:00:00
aaahh...a bit of boxlexia i see

Kyoti - 2007-07-17: 11:12:00
La pequeña caja divertida.

MisUndrstd - 2007-07-17: 12:32:00
Yeah what Kyoti said!

Girljenta2006 - 2007-07-22: 11:27:00
Hi