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DEFINITION: n. A state of heightened, subconscious awareness that allows drivers to "safely" navigate and control a vehicle without watching the road. v. To drive without bothering to watch where you are going.
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Snoozequeuing
Created by: allwise
Pronunciation: snoos-kju-ing
Sentence: Every day, as Jane snoozequeued her way to work, she would listen to language-tapes and subconsciously learn a new language every month or two.
Etymology: snooze - button-mashing in the morning queue - a line of people/cars which moves towards a common goal
Necroencephalism
Created by: DaWightNight
Pronunciation: neck-row-en-sieff-all-ism
Sentence: Alex experienced Necroencephalism when she drove home and could not remember the drive.
Etymology: Necro meaning dead, encephal meaning brain. Dead brain, meaning you cant remember anything.
Autopilotelepathy
Created by: Sketchy
Pronunciation: auto-pilo-te-lep-a-thy
Sentence: I've been using Autopilotelepathy to get around these days. It's much easier then having to actually drive with your eyes open.
Etymology: Auto (automatic) Pilot (person controlling the vehicle); Telepathy- Communication through means other than the senses, as by the exercise of an occult power. **In this case the ability to see whats happening on the road with eyes closed.
Somnidrive
Created by: darkXshadow
Pronunciation: som-ny-der-ive
Sentence: i was somnidriving the other day...
Etymology: somn means to sleep. drive means to convey in a vehicle.
Catnapigate
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: katnapigāt
Sentence: Some mornings are rougher than others. Few hour of sleep, light traffic and mostly straight, boring roads can tempt James to catnapigate his way to work. More than once the rumble strips on the shoulder of the highway have been his friend.
Etymology: catnap (a short, light sleep; a doze) + navigate (travel on a desired course after planning a route)
Trancenigate
Created by: Mustang
Pronunciation: TRANS-neh-gayt
Sentence: Even while in a meditative state, Hector always manages to safely trancenigate the highways and byways, to the complete astonishment of those who know him well and have ridden with him.
Etymology: Blend of 'trance' and 'navigate'
Cruisnoozing
Created by: mweinmann
Pronunciation: kroos - snuz - ing
Sentence: Linda went cruisnoozing to the store to pick up antacids after her atrocious all night vigil which had left her absolutely exhausted.
Etymology: cruise, snoozing
Carvoyance
Created by: mrskellyscl
Pronunciation: car-voy-ance
Sentence: Clair used her extra sensory powers of carvoyance to get through the last 15 miles of car avoidance because she had been driving all night and was going into a nod.
Etymology: car + clairvoyance: second-sight, ESP -- to be able to see in a trance like state into the world beyond the perception of the normal senses
Nodopilot
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: nod o pyle it
Sentence: It's no wonder Dora's long daily commute lended itself to her being able to drift into nodopilot mode. She left her home in Sleepy Hollow, drove past the Yawnkers turnoff, under the Boredwalk, past Lake Weary, close to Fort Fatigue, under the Spentsylvania overpass, through the town of Tuckerdout, past Conkorde-Jetlag Airport, over the Siesta Bridge and into the city of St. Pall where she worked as an accountant in the Restminster Abbey Nursing Home. Then eight long hours later, she would turn around and reverse her journey, while listening to Perry Como cd's in her car.
Etymology: Nod (to let the head fall forward through drowsiness;be almost asleep) & Autopilot (a cognitive state in which you act without self-awareness;a navigational device that automatically keeps ships or planes or spacecraft on a steady course)
Presmashination
Created by: bettyann9
Pronunciation: pree-smash-i-nayh-shun
Sentence: The B-52's lulled me into a gentle state of presmashination shortly before I crashed into the rear end of the semi.
Etymology: pre=before + smash=crash + nation=suffix denoting a mental state.
Comments:
Today's definition was suggested by purpleartichokes.
Thank you purpleartichokes! ~ James
Today's definition was suggested by purpleartichokes. Thank you purpleartichokes. ~ James