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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.
Verboticisms
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Stradar
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: strādär
Sentence: Jim gets up WAY too early in the morning to get to work. While driving down the highway there are stretches where the road is boringly familiar and music on the radio is sort of relaxing (less head banging than usual). He may start to nod off. That little voice in his head says **The road is straight. There is almost no traffic. Go ahead, close your eyes for just a second**. This is when he relies on stradar, that internal sense that the movement has shifted from linear to lateral. If it is severe, it will startle him enough to put a shot of adrenalin into his bloodstream and complete the trip with his head upright. If not, he will open all the windows, crank up the radio and sing along to to some song he may not even like all that much at the top of his lungs. Jim*s friends worry.
Etymology: stray (move without a specific purpose or by mistake) + radar (a system for detecting the presence, direction, distance, and speed of aircraft, ships, and other objects, by sending out pulses of high-frequency electromagnetic waves that are reflected off the object back to the source)
Snoozecontrol
Created by: noodles
Pronunciation: sn-ah-ooozah-con-tra-ol
Sentence: I began to snoozecontrol in heavy traffic.
Etymology: sleep under right mind
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COMMENTS:
you are gettting sleepy..... - Nosila, 2011-02-17: 21:32:00
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Sixsensigate
Created by: Ahmad
Pronunciation: siks-sensee-gaet
Sentence: Last night after the party, William's driving was totally a sixsensigate becuase he was drunk.
Etymology: six was taken from sixth and sens was taken from sense. sixth sense is an imaginary sense which is believed to work when the other five fail.gate is taken from a word navigate means to move.so, to move through sixth sense when rest of the sense are morbid or work less efficiently.
Steeresta
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
Napigation
Created by: swallowedbyafish
Pronunciation:
Sentence: As I drove, I fell into a deep state of napigation.
Etymology: nap + navigation
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)
Kipvana
Created by: idavecook
Pronunciation: Kip Va Na
Sentence: Ned had become so enraptured in his 5:30 kipvana that he did not hear his name called on the radio and failed to claim the $100,000 prize.
Etymology: Kip= Australian for nap. Vana= A great rock band or the second part of Nir
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COMMENTS:
Kip Kip Hooray for your word! - Nosila, 2009-10-01: 01:32:00
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Hypertranssomnia
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
Napigate
Created by: Nuwanda
Pronunciation: nap-a-gate
Sentence: After years of working the graveyard shift, Joel was highly skilled at napigating between his home and workplace. So successful in fact, that after retiring, he would sometimes awake with a start to find himself trying to unlock his old office.
Etymology: Navigate plus nap.
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COMMENTS:
I hate it when I go to work when I don\'t have to. - artr, 2009-09-30: 14:43:00
Love it... - Nosila, 2009-10-01: 01:30:00
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Comments:
Today's definition was suggested by purpleartichokes.
Thank you purpleartichokes! ~ James
Today's definition was suggested by purpleartichokes. Thank you purpleartichokes. ~ James