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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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Quasidriving
Created by: BMott
Pronunciation: kwaz/i/driving
Sentence: Dude! I was quasidriving all the way home. I have no idea how I got here, but somehow I did! That is so cool, I hope I didn't run over somebody.
Etymology: Quasi- resembling in some degree. Driving - doh.
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.
Subdrivenation
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"
Ghandetour
Created by: purpleartichokes
Pronunciation: gon-dee-tour
Sentence: When I got on the interstate, I must have taken a ghandetour, because when I arrived at work, I couldn't remember anything about the trip. It was likely I was wanderpondering some minutia, like today's Verbotomy definition.
Etymology: Ghandi, detour
Automobilepilot
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)
Socratichypnosautoperation
Created by: username
Pronunciation: sôk-rāt-ĭk-hĭp-nōs-ätō-pûr-ā-shən
Sentence: When Paige is on a long straight road and did not get enough sleep, she uses socratichypnosautoperation believing that she will remain safe.
Etymology: socratic- derived from the Greek philosopher Socrates meaning "having safe might" Hypnos- the Greek root hypnos means "sleep" auto- shortened/derived from automobile meaning "automobile" operation- to operate
Roadtrippy
Created by: Alchemist
Pronunciation: RODE-tri-pee
Sentence: Last night was so roadtrippy! One minute I was in Anaheim, the next I was in Cucamonga.
Etymology: road + trippy
Inthezzzzoom
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)
Antecrashsomnia
Created by: Paige
Pronunciation: ante crash som ni a
Sentence: While Shannon was driving down the windy road late last night she was slowly drifting into antecrashsomnia.
Etymology: ante: before crash: crash somn: sleep ia:
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COMMENTS:
love - sammrorkeydork, 2011-02-17: 11:31:00
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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