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'Don't worry. I'm not asleep. I'm meditating.'

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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Nonosispilot

Created by: brittmojo

Pronunciation: Non osis pilot

Sentence: The driver tended to be a nonosispilot.

Etymology: Non - not Osis- action Pilot- one who steers

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Zenpilot

Created by: chercherlalun

Pronunciation: zen pi lot

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

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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:

artr 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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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.

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Autosomnia

bigmeat

Created by: bigmeat

Pronunciation: auto-somn-ia

Sentence: Sue was experiencing autosomnia on her way home from the bakery yesterday

Etymology: Auto-Self, Somnia- Sleep

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COMMENTS:

bigmeat How creative! - bigmeat, 2011-02-17: 11:32:00

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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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love - sammrorkeydork, 2011-02-17: 11:31:00

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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"

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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

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Comudoze

erasmus

Created by: erasmus

Pronunciation: com u doze

Sentence: Eliza was able to comudoze through her daily commute.

Etymology: from commute and doze and comatose.

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Naplap

artr

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)

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Comments:

Verbotomy Verbotomy - 2007-03-13: 01:00:29
Today's definition was suggested by purpleartichokes.
Thank you purpleartichokes! ~ James

Verbotomy Verbotomy - 2009-09-30: 00:22:00
Today's definition was suggested by purpleartichokes. Thank you purpleartichokes. ~ James