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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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Napigation
Created by: swallowedbyafish
Pronunciation:
Sentence: As I drove, I fell into a deep state of napigation.
Etymology: nap + navigation
Trancesporting
Created by: porsche
Pronunciation: trans/sport/ting
Sentence: Mandy is seen every morning trancesporting her children to school. She's always amazed when she wakes up inthe driveway sans children.
Etymology: trance + transporting
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COMMENTS:
Many Mommies would like this feature in her car...good word - Nosila, 2011-02-17: 21:33:00
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Naplap
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: nap-lap
Sentence: Joyce has driven back and forth to work so many times that her car practically drives itself there. She gets her Fiesta onto Siesta Blvd., puts the car into snooze control and takes a naplap. On more than one occasion somebody has woken her in her parking spot without her remembering the drive.
Etymology: nap (light sleep) + lap (orbit, circuit)
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.
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
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.
Carvana
Created by: Discoveria
Pronunciation: Kar-varh-na
Sentence: After 15 years of solid driving experience, Betty had finally reached carvana - the awareness that her car and the traffic are ONE... and everything else is maya, illusion...
Etymology: Car + nirvana. Nirvana: the highest spiritual plane according to Buddhism. (Maya, btw, is the Hare Krishna (Hindu sect) word for illusion.)
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COMMENTS:
Everything else is illusion? Sounds like carvananity... - wordmeister, 2007-03-13: 15:35:00
I thought so too...though that's not why I eventually rejected further exploration... - Discoveria, 2007-03-13: 18:03:00
I'm impressed with your Hindu and Buddist knowledge. like the word too. - erasmus, 2007-03-14: 05:23:00
I like this one! - jedijawa, 2007-03-14: 10:01:00
erasmus - thanks. No-one would suspect that I had to google nirvana for a definition...;D - Discoveria, 2007-03-14: 11:48:00
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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
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)
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
Comments:
Today's definition was suggested by purpleartichokes.
Thank you purpleartichokes! ~ James
Today's definition was suggested by purpleartichokes. Thank you purpleartichokes. ~ James