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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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Idiosteer
Created by: Osomatic
Pronunciation: ID-ee-o-steer
Sentence: I couldn't believe it, he idiosteered right into oncoming traffic!
Etymology: Idiot + steer
Angautomable
Created by: currentlyinsolitude
Pronunciation: ang-graw-toe-maw-bull
Sentence: He was angautomable because he was late to work
Etymology: German
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"
Accinine
Created by: ubgrud
Pronunciation: ax-see-nine
Sentence: He accinined across 4 lanes of traffic.
Etymology: accident + assinine
Deadright
Created by: bghicks
Pronunciation: ded-write
Sentence: Not only was he right, he was deadright.
Etymology: dead as in duck
Soccermomniac
Created by: dstorm78
Pronunciation: Socker-Mom-Nee-Ak
Sentence: The roads are no longer safe with all these soccermomniacs taking over with their huge SUVs and the total disregard for the other drivers on the road.
Etymology: A mix of soccer-moms (characterized by their big cars and disregard for anyone other than a member of their family) and a maniac, often related to the word soccer-mom, but more importantly related to one who is a driving maniac, road hog.
Testosterisk
Created by: Hjason
Pronunciation: test-os-ter-isk
Sentence: Billy was killed yesterday driving to work when he took a mjor testosterisk by cutting off a line of cars on the off ramp just so he could be ahead of them in line.
Etymology: testosterone+risk
Traficide
Created by: likephilshead
Pronunciation: (Tra-fi-cide)
Sentence: Bob broke his leg and totaled his car in traficide.
Etymology: suicide(the driver), homicide(the passenger/s, and traffic.
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
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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