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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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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)
Accinine
Created by: ubgrud
Pronunciation: ax-see-nine
Sentence: He accinined across 4 lanes of traffic.
Etymology: accident + assinine
Hazzardriving
Created by: Alchemist
Pronunciation: HA-zard-dri-ving
Sentence: Billy yelled "Dukes of Hazzard, Dukes of Hazzard!" as he swerved into the median to overtake the Corvette. He sure loved him some hazzardriving.
Etymology: Dukes of Hazzard + Driving
Hummerage
Created by: Logiedan
Pronunciation: Hum-er-ij
Sentence: Dude, cut out the Hummerage, you're not in the right away, you hear me?
Etymology: Hummer + Rage
Rightrage
Created by: mdschermer
Pronunciation: RīT-rāj
Sentence: By some severe rightraging, he managed to make his Beetle grow the size of a roadtrain - in his head.
Etymology: "Right-of-way" + "roadrage"
Wrongofway
Created by: bondfool
Pronunciation: rong-ov-way
Sentence: too many people these days think they can just take the wrong-of-way whenever they feel like it.
Etymology: a play on the words right of way
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COMMENTS:
Just so we're clear, I created wrongofway before bondfool. Not that it's terribly difficult to conceive, but just so we're clear... - Javeson1, 2007-01-08: 13:48:00
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Stupidicide
Created by: Chunk01
Pronunciation: stew-PID-ee-side
Sentence: Despite all logic to the contrary she continued across the juntion to commit an act of righteously indignant stupidicide
Etymology: Stupid-Suicide=stupidicide
Cabgressive
Created by: Stump
Pronunciation:
Sentence: During rush hour everyone gets overly cabgressive.
Etymology: Cab - reffering to NYC cabbies who are infamous for their driving gressive - from aggressive
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
Drivezerking
Created by: ahwinters
Pronunciation: drihve-zerk-eng
Sentence: Bob's drivezerking eventually got him and 30 other people killed in a 20 car pile-up.
Etymology: drive + bezerking