Verboticisms

Created by: victy

Pronunciation:

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Etymology: navi-navigation... safo-safety....cle-vehicle

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Created by: Osomatic

Pronunciation: steer + ess + ta

Sentence: Sometimes on the way home I take a little steeresta - I've taken this drive so much I can literally do it in my sleep.

Etymology: steer + siesta

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Created by: mplsbohemian

Pronunciation: suhb-drihv-ehn-AY-shuhn

Sentence: Alex somehow managed the 18 miles from Bootlick to Possum Holler on a mixture of cold medicine and subdrivenation.

Etymology: Portmanteau of "driven", "divination", and "sublimation"

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Created by: jrlion2016

Pronunciation: pell-egg-noss-an-spekt

Sentence: Mary was tired and decided to not pay enough attention to the road while she was driving. She went into her pelagnostanspectic state so she could continue driving home without have any memory of her drive home.

Etymology: pel-to drive; a-without; gnos-knowledge; an-without; spect-seeing

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Created by: chercherlalun

Pronunciation: zen pi lot

Sentence: Mary was a zenpilot. She had become one with the steering wheel

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Created by: brittinski94

Pronunciation: som nee mo beel ee ah

Sentence: After foregoing sleep in order to write a DBQ essay, one might find oneself practicing somnimobilia while driving to school.

Etymology: Somni means sleep, mob mean to move, and -ilia makes it sound cool

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Created by: Railrod

Pronunciation: Hyper- Trans- Somnia

Sentence: F.J. experienced hypertranssomnia while driving to his grandmother's house that he had been to thousands of times.

Etymology: hyper, above + trans, across + somnia, sleep

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Created by: petaj

Pronunciation: in the zoom

Sentence: It always freaks me when I see other drivers operating their vehicles inthezoom.

Etymology: "in the zone" (being totally focussed on an activity) + zzzz (cartoon language for sleeping) + zoom (move fast, typically when driving a car)

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Created by: Nosila

Pronunciation: otto mo beel pyle ot

Sentence: Magenta drove her KIA home along the same route everyday. Because she had travelled the route and knew the dangers and nuances in each stage of the journey, she went into an automobilepilot state. This meant she left work and arrived home without remembering a single thing in between. No wonder she got 3 photo radar tickets in the mail for one particular day...the one she discovered she was pregnant, got a promotion and went through 2 red lights, very quickly!

Etymology: Automobile (car, vehicle usually with internal combustion engine) & Autopilot (a navigational device that automatically keeps ships or planes or spacecraft on a steady course; a cognitive state in which you act without self-awareness)

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Created by: amicain

Pronunciation: driver-sleep-insolmia

Sentence: When a persons is not able to drive without falling asleep. May cause death upon moving.

Etymology: driver-sleep-insolmia

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