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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.
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Kuruminase
Created by: hellohime
Pronunciation: Koo-Loo-Mi-Na-say
Sentence: After being kicked out on the street, with nothing but his car and bag of clothes, he found himself in a very kuruminase situation.
Etymology: Stemming from the japanese word for Car (kurumi), transliterated as "Car-Living-Person" meaning a person who uses their car as a place of residence.
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
Carliver
Created by: Gadgetmo
Pronunciation: car - liver
Sentence: We have to live in our car because we've got no home.
Etymology:
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)
Motorsquat
Created by: TJayzz
Pronunciation: Mow-ter-skwot
Sentence: The credit crunch had hit Joe very hard, his business had failed and his home was repossessed. He had no choice but to motorsquat in his ex wifes old banger that she had left behind when she disappeared with his financially well off 'best friend'.
Etymology: Motor(slang for car) + Squat(to set up home in an unused space,albeit illegal) = Motorsquat
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COMMENTS:
Youch! - metrohumanx, 2009-02-17: 20:47:00
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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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Carpartment
Created by: abrakadeborah
Pronunciation: car-part-ment
Sentence: Sam Snickerly, would have gotten a larger automobile had he known it was going to be a carpartment for his entire family.
Etymology: Car- An automobile. Apartment-A room or suite of rooms designed as a residence and generally located in a building occupied by more than one household.
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COMMENTS:
:)Thanks you all! I need to show up more often with my right brain. - abrakadeborah, 2012-01-31: 00:46:00
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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)
Mohabitate
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: mow hab it ayt
Sentence: they mohabitated for weeks at a time surviving on love, motown hits and sun baked cheese
Etymology: mo as in motown, habititate as in live
Veebo
Created by: sam145
Pronunciation: VEE-boh
Sentence: I spent a few years as a veebo after my parents kicked me out of the house.
Etymology: A combination of vehicle and hobo
Comments:
Today's definition was suggested by mweinmann. Thank you mweinmann. ~ James
Today's definition was suggested by mweinmann. Thank you mweinmann. ~ James
WorldSecurityUA - 2018-08-31: 02:42:00
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