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DEFINITION: A state of heightened, subconscious awareness that allows drivers to "safely" navigate and control a vehicle without watching the road.
Verboticisms
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Yodrivega
Created by: remistram
Pronunciation: yoh-dryv-guh
Sentence: Her Yoga instructor advised her that she practice some poses at home, maybe a few hours per week between classes. Would yodrivega count as practice time?
Etymology: yoga (a Hindu discipline aimed at training the consciousness for a state of perfect spiritual insight and tranquillity) + drive
Tripscendental
Created by: Scrumpy
Pronunciation: trip-sen-den-tl
Sentence: When Ken arrived at work he realized he had been in a tripscendental state the entire way.
Etymology: trip - (travel, journey) transcendental - (supernatural, abstract)
Pseudoautocruise
Created by: kasaj
Pronunciation:
Sentence: i was driving on pseudoautocruise when that truck hit me from behind
Etymology: pseudo=false
Sublimnopilot
Created by: genemcl73
Pronunciation: sub lim no pilot
Sentence: I left work and got home and didn't even remember driving there, I was on sublimnopilot.
Etymology:
Luciddriving
Created by: Windy
Pronunciation: zzzz-I'm awake--zzzz
Sentence: It was just a matter of submitting to her subconscious; when Alice was luciddriving she could control the cruise control with her knees
Etymology: lucid dreaming
Carobotic
Created by: OZZIEBOB
Pronunciation: ka-ro-BOT-ik
Sentence: Those who didn't know Bob well, thought that his driving seemed a bit jaloopy. But Roxie knew that driving with Bob was autopian. For he was mild-hearted towards mergeicians and courteous to cyclopaths, while driving safely with a carobotic awareness that allowed him to drive without watching the road.
Etymology: Blend of car & robotic: to act like a robot or automaton. Jaloopy (jalopy & loopy); Autopian, Mergeician & Cyclopath from Richard Glover's "The Dag's Dictionary."
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COMMENTS:
Some cool words in that sentence - petaj, 2007-09-05: 03:10:00
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Carvana
Created by: Sholto
Pronunciation: kahr-VAH-nuh
Sentence: It was only when she pulled on the handbrake and reached for her makeup bag that Shona realised she had driven to work in a state of perfect carvana, and had no recollection of the journey whatsoever.
Etymology: Car & Nirvana
Tripnosis
Created by: rikboyee
Pronunciation: trip-no-siss
Sentence: after years of taking the kids to their early morning swimming lessons, it became easy for me to get there via tripnosis
Etymology: trip, hypnosis
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COMMENTS:
i submitted tranceport thinking i was all clever but then when i checked on the words that came up last time for this definition i saw that tranceport had been done... - rikboyee, 2007-09-04: 03:23:00
good word. Defines a lot of travelling situations. You hae my vote. - OZZIEBOB, 2007-09-04: 23:34:00
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