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DEFINITION: n. A person who lives in their car because they have lost their home. v. To live in your car.
Verboticisms
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Apartmobile
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: uh-pahrt-moh-beel
Sentence: The sales rep spends so much time in her car that she has decked it out as an apartmobile. The bins of snacks and stack of extra cloths are bad enough but recently she has been nagging her husband to figure out how to adapt a mini-fridge and microwave to install in the back seat.
Etymology: apartment (set of rooms for rent ) + mobile(movable, traveling)
Villahicle
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: vee la hik el
Sentence: Summers down by the lake, winters in trailer parks...waking up miles away from where you went to bed, that's the life. Our villahicle is the true meaning of detached housing. We are upwardly mobile...well, mobile, anyway!
Etymology: Villa (suburban detached domicile) & Vehicle (mode of transport)
Homestreethome
Created by: rombus
Pronunciation: hom - street - hom
Sentence: Ahhh homestreethome Justin said as he opened the door of his 77 Buick. He had been homeless for 25 years and was quite comfortable wandering the streets, eating at McDonald's and taking his showers at the SudsNStuff Carwash....
Etymology: Play on the phrase Home Sweet Home --- Home (where you live) Street (also your home if you live in your car...as it is a road to drive down)....
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COMMENTS:
clever word play - silveryaspen, 2009-02-17: 13:37:00
Be it ever so humble in the rumble seat! - Nosila, 2009-02-17: 20:24:00
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Tajmauhaul
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: täzhməyoōhäl
Sentence: When Todd's company decided to move him to LA they made no provisions for higher cost of living. Finding a home or apartment that he could afford was next to impossible. He did however note that they allowed for the rental of truck to be used for self-movers for as long as was necessary. That's when Todd moved into the Tajmauhaul. He opted for the 24-foot model to allow for optimal viewing of his plasma TV. It was as big as some of the efficiencies he had looked at and considerably cheaper under the leasing plan. The only issue he has had is that speed bump in the company parking lot sloshing water out of his new hot tub. Next month he is considering adding bay windows.
Etymology: Taj Mahal (a mausoleum at Agra, India, built by the Mogul emperor Shah Jahan (1592–1666) in memory of his favorite wife) + U-Haul (a rental truck company)
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COMMENTS:
Good one - TJayzz, 2009-02-17: 05:08:00
Great word...very INDUStrious! - Nosila, 2009-02-17: 20:25:00
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Fordablehousing
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: ford abel how zing
Sentence: After losing his job and home, Randy moved the family into his Focus, so that they would have fordablehousing.
Etymology: Affordable housing (low cost dwelling) & Ford(automobile brand)
Interstateless
Created by: feltcap
Pronunciation: ɪntərˈsteɪtlɛs
Sentence: After his father walked in on a rather intimate moment he was sharing with his mother they had been interstateless.
Etymology: interstate - a highway serving two or more states, stateless - lacking nationality or without nationality or citizenship
Suvivor
Created by: Mustang
Pronunciation: suh-VIVE-uhr
Sentence: After being tossed out by her two-timing husband Megan grabbed her two kids and their puppy and she became a suvivor, happy that she at least had the SUV as it provided a bit more in the way of creature comforts than a smaller vehicle may have done
Etymology: Use of SUV (acronym for Sports Utility Vehicle) and is a play on the word survivor.
Carttage
Created by: splendiction
Pronunciation: caw taj - homophone with cottage
Sentence: Unfortunately they eventually lost their home and took up residence in their car. It would be temporary. When not downtown working, they returned up north to their carttage. As time went by, their carttage became their “home a way from home”.
Etymology: carttage and carttager. From "cottage" and "car".
Vagabenz
Created by: DnBrown
Pronunciation: vag-a-benz
Sentence: Kathy lost her home when her bakery went under, due to the terrible economy. Now jobless, homeless, with no opportunities, she is forced to live in her car and become a Vagabenz.
Etymology: Vagabenz is a mixture of Vagabond (an idle wanderer without a permanent home or visible means of support) and Benz (from Mercedes Benz, the car manufacture)
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COMMENTS:
Her bakery went under? No wonder she has no dough! Great word... - Nosila, 2009-02-19: 01:24:00
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Domicyclist
Created by: Jabberwocky
Pronunciation: domi/sigh/clist
Sentence: The Turtle family became domicyclists when it became necessary to take up residence in their car.
Etymology: domicile + cyclist
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COMMENTS:
what a mind tripper! - silveryaspen, 2009-02-17: 13:36:00
brilliant, and rolls off the tongue too... - Ismelstar, 2009-02-18: 19:53:00
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Comments:
Today's definition was suggested by mweinmann. Thank you mweinmann. ~ James
Today's definition was suggested by mweinmann. Thank you mweinmann. ~ James
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