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DEFINITION: v., To slowly inch your vehicle forward at a red traffic light hoping that you can make it change faster. n., A driver who allows their vehicle to creep into the middle of an intersection while waiting for a red light.
Verboticisms
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Redging
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: red jing
Sentence: Her attempt at redging through the instersection was soon stopped by the big bus whowas running the amber light.
Etymology:
Greendy
Created by: zxvasdf
Pronunciation: Green dy
Sentence: The heliograph of sirens flickered on Bob's face as he walked slowly around the crumpled piece of tin that was once his car; Jane, the damsel to whom he was en route, was on his mind and he became a bit too greendy... until before long he found himself in the middle of the intersection with a frightening semi-truck on one end and an equally terrifying Mack truck on the other end. Bob, groaning inwardly, would have to postpone his date. The price of being greendy!
Etymology: Green (as in green light) & greedy (gluttonous)
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COMMENTS:
Wow. - metrohumanx, 2008-10-30: 13:53:00
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Incremotorist
Created by: IllmaticKD
Pronunciation: Ink'ra'mote'ur'ist
Sentence: Clearly suffering from trauma to the head of various degrees several drivers on todays roads fall victem to incremotorism. Apparently making crosswalks safe for children is not on the agenda of this dirty rotten incremotorist.
Etymology: noun; Derived from two words. Increment and motorist. Also see: incremotorism.
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COMMENTS:
LOL I like it! - Korinne, 2007-12-06: 08:43:00
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Creapred
Created by: bzma0501
Pronunciation: kri-prEd
Sentence: The creapred girl kept rolling on through the intersection.
Etymology: from English, "creap" + "red"
Usethefordsluke
Created by: rikboyee
Pronunciation: yooz-thuh-fordz-luuk
Sentence: he deseperately needed the light to turn green, and suddenly a voice came into his head, 'usethefordsluke'. so he turned off his GPS and started inching his ford [millennium] falcon forward.
Etymology: use the force luke, ford
Redleadfoot
Created by: remistram
Pronunciation: red-led-foot
Sentence: Redleadfooting is one of the main causes of road rage stabbings & deaths.
Etymology: red (as in red traffic light)+ lead (as in metal or heavy) + foot
Carincher
Created by: silveryaspen
Pronunciation: carincher: kar-in-cher
Sentence: The karincher in front of me at the red light got clipped by a car zipping through the intersection.
Etymology: Carincher ... car for car and incher for moving forward inch by inch.
Locomotorist
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: lo ko mo to rist
Sentence: Coco was a locomotorist. She would creep her car along at red lights, without concern for those heading her way from either side. She's been lucky so far, but her luck is running out. Is this Suicide by Suzuki? Harakiri by Hyundai? Death by Dodge? Kamikaze by Kia? Murder by Mazda? Coco is also Loco.
Etymology: Locomotion (self-propelled movement) & Motorist (driver) and Loco (Spanish for crazy)
Gashopper
Created by: porsche
Pronunciation: gas/hop/pur
Sentence: Do you hear the gashopper that is at your feet? (blatant Kung Fu reference)
Etymology: gas + hop + grasshopper
Comments:
Today's definition was suggested by Tigger and libertybelle. Thank you Tigger and libertybelle. ~ James
Tigger - 2007-12-06: 00:32:00
Actually, libertybelle should get sole credit. I should've read through the recent definitions before submitting mine.
i still say great minds think alike... though some say filthy minds think alike, as well... hmmm...
silveryaspen - 2007-12-06: 19:11:00
flows smoothly ... readily understood ... nice interplay of words.
silveryaspen - 2007-12-06: 19:14:00
like the first 2 syllable rhyme ... the word rolls off the tongue. The meaning is straightforward and implicit.
Today's definition was suggested by libertybelle. Thank you libertybelle. ~ James