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DEFINITION: To assert your right-of-way in traffic, even when it's stupidly dangerous to do so.
Verboticisms
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Carageous
Created by: fonka99
Pronunciation: car-a-geous
Sentence: Peregrine stamped his foot on the accelarator and carageously overtook the truck, despite the thick fog.
Etymology: From car and courageous
Roadgoading
Created by: quippingqueen
Pronunciation: rode/gode/ing
Sentence: The last time he played "roadgoading" with three semi-trailers on a busy freeway, he was more than a little miffed at the result.
Etymology: road + goading (inciting or arousing to action)
Dangriving
Created by: xshadowswimmer08x
Pronunciation: Dane-riving
Sentence: He started dangriving and it scared the crap out of me.
Etymology: danger/driving
Freewaving
Created by: purpleartichokes
Pronunciation: free/way/ving
Sentence: Sue was taken aback when instead of moving over to let the speeding car merge onto the highway, Bob started freewaving the driver in the car and continued driving in "his" lane.
Etymology: freeway, waving (the middle finger)
Stubmerge
Created by: sodium
Pronunciation: stub-murj
Sentence: When the two lanes became one, Harold obstinately stubmerged right into the middle of a pack of motorcycles.
Etymology: stubborn + merge to form a word similar to submerge
Coupedetat
Created by: Jabberwocky
Pronunciation: coop/deh/tah
Sentence: He instituted a coupedetat on a north bound road declaring it a south bound route from here on.
Etymology: coup d'etat + coupe
Drivenesia
Created by: Orlandin
Pronunciation: Drive-nesia
Sentence: Do you remember how to drive or do you have drivenesia?
Etymology: Amnesia.
Streetknuckle
Created by: Bulletchewer
Pronunciation: street-nuk-ull
Sentence: Swallowing one's pride and choosing not to streetknuckle prevents many an accident.
Etymology: In a shamelessly lame attempt to appeal to the masses (for votes), the simple streak continues: From "street" and "knuckle". I hate myself.
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COMMENTS:
Shamelessly lame? Simple is better. I like this one...sounds like a word I'd actually use, as opposed to most of the linguistic monstrosities out there. - ErWenn, 2007-01-06: 01:09:00
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